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October 1, 2024, 3:55 PM

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft unveils Copilot Vision, which analyzes text and images on webpages, Think Deeper, which reasons through more complex problems, Copilot Voice, and more  —  A week after announcing a wave of updates for its enterprise suite of Copilot AI-powered products, Microsoft is launching …
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Microsoft is discontinuing HoloLens 2, with no replacement, and will only push “updates to address critical security issues and software regressions” until 2028  —  HoloLens 2 production has ended, Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR.  —  Now is the last time to buy the device …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says it will start rolling out Click to Do, akin to Google's Circle to Search, and AI-enhanced Windows search improvements for Copilot+ PCs next month  —  Microsoft is using AI models to greatly improve Windows search on its new Copilot Plus PCs, including the addition of a new Click …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft begins rolling out Bing Generative Search, its answer to Google's AI Overviews, to all US users, underpinned by a mix of AI models  —  Microsoft has launched its answer to Google's AI-powered search experiences: Bing Generative Search.  —  On the heels of a pilot in July …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse …
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
As the US and allies try to sanction Evil Corp., the UK NCA says the ransomware gang conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders  —  - Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence announces a plan to understand Sonos' software and corporate culture missteps and rebuild trust with customers, after the app debacle  —  The Sonos app debacle will go down as an all-time tech industry blunder, but now the company is taking steps to turn the page.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google announces new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo, and adds AI features to ChromeOS; Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus gets a new Quick Insert key  —  Google is announcing new Chromebook models today with Samsung and Lenovo.  With Samsung's Galaxy Chromebook Plus model in particular …
Fortune:
Sources say many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in the middle of arguments between teams  —  When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer …
Andrew Solomon / New Yorker:
Parents and US lawmakers are debating whether social media has fueled a teen suicide crisis, as mental health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans  —  Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Over the past year, one researcher has reported dozens of flaws in 19 commercial services used by hundreds of US courts, state agencies, and police departments  —  With hundreds of courts and agencies affected, chances are one near you is, too.  —  Public records systems that courts …
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Sony fixes a massive outage of its online gaming network PSN, affecting the PS3, PS4, PS5, PS Vita, web, and more, lasting for eight hours; some issues persist  —  PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 console users are now able to play online games again following a massive outage on Sony's gaming network that started on Monday night.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma, who spent years as a doctoral fellow at Google before joining OpenAI's founding team as a research scientist  —  Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he'll be joining Anthropic.
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Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
An interview with WhatsApp Product Director Alice Newton-Rex on end-to-end encryption, spotting misinformation, the UK's Online Safety Act, Telegram, and more  —  The messaging platform's director of product discusses privacy issues, AI and new features for the app's 2bn users

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