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Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose — In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Reuters, CoinGape, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, PCMag, The Hill, Reuters, and The Crypto Times
Forums: r/news, r/artificial, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and r/technology
| Anil Bhoyrul / Arabian Business: |
In their first-ever interview, Shiba Inu leaders Shytoshi Kusama and Kaal Dhairya discuss remaining anonymous, Elon Musk, SHIB's origins, future plans, and more — The meme coin leaders have created the world's largest decentralised community but, somehow, they have remained completely anonymous.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple approves the first PC emulator for iOS, UTM SE, weeks after initially rejecting and barring it from being notarized for third-party app stores in the EU — Apple has approved UTM SE, an app for emulating a computer to run classic software and games, weeks after the company rejected …
More: UTM SE on App Store, The Indian Express, and NewsBytes
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/iosgaming
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market with a focus on elections that has raised $70M+ and traded $350M+ in predictions on the US election — Prediction markets can provide a clear signal through even the most deafening noise. That's why Americans are obsessively refreshing this one.
More: Polymarket, Polymarket, The Crypto Times, Polymarket, CoinDesk, Polymarket, Cryptopolitan, CoinDesk, Polymarket, and Bitcoin News
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Outspent by tech companies, universities are racing to stay relevant in AI research, as some academics turn their focus to less computing-intensive areas of AI — Outspent by Big Tech, some academics are focusing on research that requires less computing power, even as they try to build more of it| Matthew Connatser / The Register: |
Intel has been facing mounting pressure to fix Raptor Lake CPU stability issues since February 2024; a game studio accuses Intel of selling “defective” CPUs — High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD
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| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Source: Google and Samsung's XR headset, codenamed Moohan and initially planned for Q1 2024, is now set for March 2025, with a developer version in October 2024 — - Google recently reshuffled the ranks to consolidate teams working in augmented reality. — The release of Google …
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Galaxy Digital: investment in crypto by VCs and others rose to $3.2B in Q2 2024, the highest amount in a quarter since Q4 2022, and up from $2.5B in Q1 2024 — Plus, updates on former FTX executives and PayPal's stablecoin … Crypto start-ups trying to raise money have found it very difficult over the past few years.
More: Galaxy, The Daily Hodl, and Crypto Briefing
| Anuj Ahooja / augment: |
Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform — It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.
Threads: @laurenlopes.author, @saramontourlewis, @thetechsavvyassistant, @documentingmeta, @hi.im.vijay, @quillmatiq, @vishvanands, @lucid_voyager, @eleonor.rose, and @ananth.pradeep. Forums: Hacker News
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after its near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI — After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much. And don't ask it to license its archive to AI.| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Preliminary findings: the European Commission says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X could be fined up to 6% of its global revenue — Brussels regulators use new digital powers to threaten social media company with huge fines over transparency issues
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Forums: r/conspiracy, r/elonmusk, and r/technology
| Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: |
Ahead of a key UK Amazon workers' union vote, a look at Amazon's efforts to prevent employees from organizing, after fending off most of the similar US attempts — Campaign is part of tech giant's long-running global battle to prevent employees from organisingSponsor Posts
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