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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Court filings show how Zuckerberg and other Meta execs played down risks to young users, while rejecting staff pleas to bolster guardrails and hire more staff — In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness …
More: The Daily Beast, The Verge, New York Times, and Newsmax
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LinkedIn: Zach Rausch, Robert Birge, and Siva Nadarajah
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books — Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library. — As a result of book publishers successfully suing …
More: Internet Archive Blogs, Techdirt, and TechSpot
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X: @geeknik, @ericaeducator, @gvnzng, @internetarchive, @internetarchive, @tlalexander, @kevin2kelly, and @vokabre
Forums: Hacker News, r/books, r/DataHoarder, r/technews, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Research: the number of freelance jobs on platforms like Upwork, in areas where generative AI excels, have dropped by as much as 21% since ChatGPT's debut — There's now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months — Jennifer Kelly, a freelance copywriter in the picturesque … | Kate Irwin / PCMag: |
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers — The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup …
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LinkedIn: Glenn Gabe and Rafael Brown
| Washington Post: |
As power needs of AI push emissions up, tech companies explore experimental clean energy projects such as atomic fusion and futuristic geothermal power plants — As power needs of AI push emissions up and put big tech in a bind, companies put their faith in elusive — some say improbable — technologies.
More: Mother Jones and itprotoday
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/solarpunk, r/technology, r/the_everything_bubble, r/OpenAI, r/technews, r/ChatGPT, r/environment, r/climate, and r/fusion
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently — Like much of Northern Virginia, Loudoun County was once known for its horse farms and Civil War battle sites.
More: WinBuzzer and datacenterknowledge
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| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Q&A with AMD executive Forrest Norrod on increasing AI investments, releasing accelerator chips at a faster cadence, AMD's open standards approach, and more — In an interview with CRN, AMD executive Forrest Norrod talks about how the company is “dramatically” increasing investments …
More: Wccftech. X: @dylanonchips, @techepiphanyyt, @dylanonchips, and @dylanonchips
Forums: r/AMD_Stock and r/Amd
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Despite a $3T+ valuation, Nvidia remains a little-known brand outside gaming and tech industries due to the speed of its ascent and lack of consumer contact — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Switzerland's push to lead the global race to tokenize assets, as officials try to change perceptions around its diminished banking industry — - Central bank has extended its digital currency pilot project — Digital bond issuance settled in CBDC has reached 755m francs
X: @zurikosan
| Janko Roettgers / The Verge: |
An interview with Netflix's senior encoding technology director Anne Aaron about the company's cutting-edge codecs, preparing for livestreaming, and more — How cutting-edge codecs and obsessive tweaks have helped Netflix to stay ahead of the curve — until now. … Anne Aaron just can't help herself.
LinkedIn: Magnus Svensson
| Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun: |
How Embracer's layoffs and project cancellations gutted Fishlabs, a promising studio that now lives on as a cross-dev team supporting other Embracer companies — The exclusive inside story of Chorus developers Fishlabs, from Project Black to Project White — A phoenix is a mythological firebird …
More: Wccftech, TheGamer, PlayStation LifeStyle, Digital Trends, Game Developer, Game Rant, TechRaptor, and IGN
| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay — - Eastern European cybercrime group demanding extortion payment — CDK down for several days as dealerships experience fallout
More: USA Today, CNN, Chicago Sun Times, Reuters, PaymentSecurity.io, BleepingComputer, CRN, SC Media, New York Post, Channel Futures, The Guardian, Associated Press, Newser, SecurityWeek, and Dataconomy
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