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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 …
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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 …
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| 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 …
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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.
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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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| 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.| 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.| Bloomberg: |
How Sweden's push to go cashless has left consumers and the country vulnerable to online fraud; value of fraudulent transactions has doubled since 2021 — Sweden has led the way in Europe in going cashless, but fast and easy digital commerce have left consumers and the state vulnerable to fraud.
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| Kevin Nguyen / The Verge: |
Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media — For a crucial decade in print media's transition to the internet, HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones was a boon in traffic... for everyone.
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| 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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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