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June 23, 2024, 7:05 AM
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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, available to developers for building AI-enabled apps for Snapdragon X Elite devices  —  Another way to promote AI PCs.  —  When Qualcomm formally introduced its Snapdragon X Elite platforms at Computex earlier this month …
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 …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
A look at efforts by Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, and other companies to make their chatbots funnier and keep users engaged with them at home and at work  —  Anthropic, xAI and other artificial intelligence companies see humor as an important feature for their services.
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.
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.
Threads: @rafaelcaricio.  Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im.  X: @greglangdon and @cullend
LinkedIn: Anne Aaron and Magnus Svensson.  Forums: r/AV1
Amelia Tait / Wired:
A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge  —  Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge.
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.
More: TweakTown
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 …
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.
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
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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From Mediagazer

Brian Stelter / CNN:
In a letter to Bob Iger, incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr raised concerns about ABC's negotiations with its affiliated stations, public trust in media, and more

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix will host NFL Christmas games, including Beyonce's Halftime show, for only three hours after streaming them live; replays will be available on NFL+

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fubo says TelevisaUnivision has pulled its networks from Fubo and that TelevisaUnivision offered terms “that would increase prices by 25%” for Fubo subscribers

More News

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
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
X plans to make the ability to create live streams a premium feature, making it the only major social platform to charge for the feature

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Apple will withhold the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and more in the EU this year, citing concerns about DMA's interoperability requirements
More: TweakTown, MacRumors, The Verge, Cryptopolitan, WinBuzzer, Business Insider, Mashable, Forbes, Financial Times, nltimes.nl, iMore, Spyglass, GSMArena.com, Euractiv, The Register, Sam Lover, The Decoder, Benzinga, Anadolu Ajansı …, Daring Fireball, OSnews, NewsBytes, GovInfoSecurity.com, Notebookcheck, COINOTAG NEWS, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Daring Fireball, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Android Headlines, mjtsai.com, Decrypt, The Information, Pixel Envy, Redmond Pie, Cult of Mac, iThinkDifferent, Neowin, Six Colors, iClarified, Trusted Reviews, Digital Trends, Phandroid, Engadget, Quartz, Axios, Dexerto, XDA Developers, The Apple Post, PhoneArena, Liliputing, Android Authority, AppleInsider, BGR, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @alex.stamos, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @eric_seufert, @gruber, @barbarosozturk, @andrewpardoe, @sdw, @gruber, @gruber, @jonathangarelick, @eshumarneedi, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, @iamkonstantineu, @benedictevans, @viticci, and @ianbetteridge
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @stroughtonsmith …, @gruber@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @stevestreza@indieweb.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @stevestreza@indieweb.social, @sdw@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @nileane@nileane.fr, @nileane@nileane.fr, @stroughtonsmith …, @sdw@mastodon.social, @nileane@nileane.fr, @roelgroeneveld@mastodon.nl, @gruber@mastodon.social, and @nileane@nileane.fr
X: @lukolejnik, @markgurman, @jason_kint, @timsweeneyepic, @gruber, @sdw, @sdw, @rhysmorgan, @jordibruin, @sdw, @reddit_lies, @markgurman, @steipete, @mysk_co, @mishaalrahman, @carnage4life, @privacymatters, @adamkovac, @dimillian, @adamkovac, @rjonesy, @adamkovac, @dimillian, @anxiousholly, @markgurman, @krzyzanowskim, @mrjefago, @pat_hedger, @stevesi, @mgsiegler, @mysk_co, @lutherlowe, @markgurman, @bzamayo, @florian4gamers, @altryne, @markgurman, @stevesi, and @markgurman
LinkedIn: Michael Jackson, Emil Protalinski, André Meyer, and Mario Herger, PhD
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/neoliberal, r/technews, r/singularity, r/apple, and r/europe
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against 12 Kaspersky executives; the company and its founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky were not included
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI buys Rockset, an enterprise search and analytics startup that raised $105M, integrating both the tech and staff of an acquisition for the first time
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