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| Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: |
Screenshots of Google's AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick on a pizza — - Google's AI Overviews feature suggested a user put glue on pizza so the cheese would stay put.
More: The Verge, 404 Media, Ars Technica, Android Police, PCMag, OSnews, The Daily Dot, fucksmith on Reddit, Jalopnik, New York Post, Fortune, Search Engine Roundtable, Times Now, Sherwood News, The Indian Express, Entrepreneur, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, and Digital Trends
Threads: @kylie.robison. Mastodon: @sfaze@indieweb.social, @onuryasar@mastodon.online, and @donncha@mastodon.ie
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Forums: r/nottheonion and Ars OpenForum
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Leaked contract: Samsung requires independent repair shops to notify Samsung, share customer data, and “immediately disassemble” devices with aftermarket parts — In exchange for selling them repair parts, Samsung requires independent repair shops to give Samsung the name …
More: Engadget, The Verge, Android Police, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SlashGear
Mastodon: @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @skateintraffic.bsky.social. X: @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler, @nproctor, and @repaircoalition
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
iFixit and Samsung end their repair partnership after two years; iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens says that “Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale” — iFixit and Samsung are parting ways. … “Samsung does not seem interested in enabling repair at scale,” … | Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Users reported a massive Microsoft outage that impacted Bing, Copilot on the web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT's internet search, DuckDuckGo, and more — A massive Microsoft outage affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, Daily Mail, Times of India, Metro.co.uk, Search Engine Land, PCMag, Windows Central, The i Paper, MacRumors, Financial Express, Search Engine Roundtable, ZDNet, Mashable, CCN.com, Tom's Hardware, TechRadar, Livemint, KnowTechie, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Windows Report, Protos, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, and Android Authority
Mastodon: @_elena@mastodon.social. X: @duckduckgo, @msft365status, @msft365status, @msft365status, @ecosia, @brendaneich, @brave, @msft365status, @msft365status, @duckduckgo, @uwukko, @andrewcurran_, @rustybrick, @mayank_jee, @nixcraft, @rustybrick, @clementdelangue, and @leshaque
Forums: Hacker News, r/duckduckgo, r/duckduckgo, r/cybersecurity, r/MicrosoftRewards, and MacRumors Forums
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple is targeting a full-screen foldable MacBook launch in 2026 and considering a 20.25" or a 18.8" panel, with an M5 chip and Vision Pro-level price — Apple is working on all-screen foldable devices. Unlike its competitors, however, its focus seems less on foldable smartphones and tablets … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Spotify tells customers that its Car Thing dashboard accessory will stop working on December 9, less than a year after it went on sale, without offering refunds — Spotify's brief attempt at being a hardware company wasn't all that successful: the company stopped producing …
More: Spotify, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, How-To Geek, TechCrunch, Android Police, Engadget, and Pocket-lint
X: @sightofthesun_, @autismcapital, @janaythemack, @shanna1221, @nick6v, @elkbit, @michaelmiraflor, and @omarg
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/gadgets, and r/technology
| CNBC: |
US DOJ and state AGs sue to break up Ticketmaster parent Live Nation over alleged antitrust violations, following a DOJ probe and Taylor Swift fan complaints — The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to break up Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, over alleged antitrust violations.
More: Bloomberg, US Department of Justice, Live Nation Entertainment, The Verge, New York Times, The Register, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, Cybernews.com, Vox, Washington Post, ABC News, CNN, Semafor, New York Times, Gizmodo, New York Post, Engadget, New York Daily News, Financial Times, Fortune, Reuters, The Hollywood Reporter, Benzinga, Consequence, NPR, Deadline, Proactive, Axios, Music Ally, Benzinga, Wired, NBC News, Institute for Local …, Politico, Mashable, KRQE-TV, Digital Music News, The Verge, and Axios
Mastodon: @avirr@sfba.social. Bluesky: @patrickmcmahon.bsky.social, @docrevan.xyz, and @jmgreene28.bsky.social
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LinkedIn: Lauren Feiner and Morgan Harper
Forums: r/moderatepolitics, r/Destiny, r/Music, r/Music, r/phish, r/indieheads, r/hiphopheads, r/law, and r/neutralnews
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
An interview with Microsoft Windows and Devices head Pavan Davuluri on his vision, Copilot AI, Windows Copilot Runtime, streaming Windows to devices, and more — Pavan Davuluri hasn't even been the head of Windows for two months, but he's already been tasked with announcing Microsoft's transition … | Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
X Director of Engineering Haofei Wang says “we are making likes private” in an update happening “soon”, as “public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior” — Musk could soon make likes on X private, changing a feature that historically placed several celebrities, including him, into scandals.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, MobileSyrup, KnowTechie, 9to5Mac, and Wccftech
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| Jeremy Gan / Dexerto: |
Linus Tech Tips, accused in August 2023 of theft, ethical lapses, and sexual harassment, says an outside investigation found the claims were “largely unfounded” — Linus Tech Tips has released the findings from an investigation of the allegations levied upon them in 2023 … | Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Docs and sources: OpenAI didn't use Scarlett Johansson's voice for ChatGPT's Sky and hired another actress in June, months before Sam Altman contacted Johansson — A different actress was hired to provide the voice for ChatGPT's ‘Sky,’ according to documents and recordings shared with the Washington Post.
More: Ars Technica, Bloomberg, The Register, TechRadar, Reuters, Business Insider, Engadget, Tech Xplore, Business Standard, New Yorker, Dexerto, Music Ally, The Decoder, AIM, and Spyglass
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @fitzstartz.bsky.social. X: @willoremus, @hshaban, @buccocapital, @harrymccracken, @yoda, @pkafka, @carnage4life, @nitashatiku, @pstasiatech, @blind_steel, and @mszafranski413
Forums: Hacker News, r/news, r/aiwars, r/technology, r/neoliberal, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Kelsey Piper / Vox: |
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Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @annmlipton@esq.social. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @annmlipton.bsky.social
LinkedIn: Harish Pillay and Jeremy Kahn
Forums: tedivm on Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Google details Umoja, the first fiber optic cable that would connect Africa and Australia, starting in Kenya and running via the DRC and others to South Africa — Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fiber-optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia.
More: Google Cloud Blog, iTnews, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Data Center Knowledge, News.ng, Neowin, PCMag, Converge! Network Digest, and The Star
LinkedIn: David Robles, Wouter van Hulten, Ian Clarke, and Benjamin Treynor Sloss
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alphabet and Meta have talked to Hollywood studios about licensing content for AI video generation tools; Disney and Netflix aren't willing to license — - Studios seek to harness AI's promise without losing control — Warner weighs licensing content; Disney, Netflix say no| Reed Abelson / New York Times: |
Systems at US hospital operator Ascension, which has ~140 hospitals, remain down indefinitely after a May 8 cyberattack, in a hack similar to Change Healthcare — For two weeks at the 140-hospital system, doctors and nurses have had little access to digital records for patient histories, resorting to paper and faxes to treat people.
More: NPR
| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Tribe Capital commit to joining xAI's new funding round, in which the company seeks to raise ~$6B at an $18B valuation — Billionaire's artificial intelligence start-up closes in on $6bn funding round as it seeks more financial firepower| Martin Zugec / Bitdefender Blog: |
A look at China-aligned hacking group Unfading Sea Haze, which has targeted government and military organizations in South China Sea countries since 2018 — In a recent investigation by Bitdefender Labs, a series of cyberattacks targeting high-level organizations in South China Sea countries revealed a previously unknown threat actor.
More: SecurityWeek. LinkedIn: Charles Durant and Robert Fernandes
Forums: r/technology and r/cybersecurity
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
A bill strengthening the UK Competition and Markets Authority to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google heads toward approval before the UK's July election — The UK will shortly get its own rulebook for Big Tech, after peers in the House of Lords agreed Thursday afternoon to pass the Digital Markets … | The Block: |
The US SEC approves multiple spot Ethereum ETFs, including those from BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale — - The SEC has approved multiple spot Ethereum ETFs in an omnibus order. — This comes just four months after the agency approved spot Bitcoin ETFs for the first time.| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Truecaller partners with Microsoft's Azure AI Speech to let its AI Assistant users create an AI version of their voice based on a recorded clip to answer calls — Caller ID company Truecaller will let users create an AI version of their voice to answer calls.| Forbes: |
Sources: Helsing, which provides AI tools to militaries, is raising a $400M+ Series C led by General Catalyst at a ~$4B valuation, after raising $200M+ in 2023 — The Munich-based company is raising at least $400 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst, sources tell Forbes.
X: @kenrickcai
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Pay now lets users see their card benefits and perks before selecting a card, use BNPL on more sites, and fill in card details using biometrics or a PIN — Google Pay is rolling out a number of updates that capitalize on its integrations with other Google products, like Android and the Chrome browser.
More: The Keyword, NDTV, The Paypers, Tom's Guide, Android Central, Sam Lover, and Business Standard
| Financial Times: |
Meta's Yann LeCun says LLMs won't reach human intelligence and instead FAIR is working on a “world modeling” vision, to create AI that can develop common sense — Yann LeCun argues current AI methods are flawed as he pushes for ‘world modelling’ vision for superintelligence
More: The Decoder and Forbes
X: @ylecun, @martinsignoux, @vivatech, @natolambert, @ylecun, @jthomasburgess, and @_willfalcon. LinkedIn: Clay Williams. Forums: Slashdot
| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Embracer reports FY2023-24 net sales up 12% YoY to ~$3.9B, PC/Console up 7% YoY to ~$1.3B, and Mobile up 2% YoY to $551M; its CFO and deputy CEO steps down — CEO Lars Wingefors says past fiscal year was “transformative” as group presses on towards three-way split — News by James Batchelor Editor-in-chief| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Amazon investors vote to reject all 14 resolutions that asked to disclose more on its carbon emissions and directors' donations, form an AI committee, and more — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) investors voted against all 14 resolutions that asked the retailer to disclose more about its carbon emissions … Sponsor Posts
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