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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent” — The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues …
More: WordPress News, The Verge, ACF, and Pixel Envy
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Forums: Hacker News, r/WPDrama, and lobste.rs
| Mathew Ingram / The Torment Nexus: |
Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess — Hi everyone! Mathew Ingram here. This is The Torment Nexus (you can find out more about me and this newsletter — and why I chose to call it that — in my inaugural post.)
More: LinuxJedi's /dev/null, Google Docs, heise online, and Slate
Threads: @mathewi and @dankennedy_nu
Mastodon: @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon … and @dankennedy_nu@journa.host
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account — Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it!
More: Mashable, Android Central, The Mirror, and CNN
Threads: @meta, @mike_isaac, @katienotopoulos, @stevenpbrumby, @joannastern, @girlinwhiteglasses, @ukcameraman, @avbelow, @joannastern, @nickdraeger, @andrewpardoe, @yeeahspencer, and @derjarjour. X: @tomwarren
| Dario Amodei: |
An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more — How AI Could Transform the World for the Better — I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.
More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Decoder, Marginal REVOLUTION, and The Verge
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LinkedIn: Liza Tobin, Annisa Firdaus, Sarah Guo, and Jenny Nicholson
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, and r/slatestarcodex
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Meta's Yann LeCun, who says today's AI models aren't intelligent and warnings about AI's existential peril are “complete B.S.” — Yann LeCun, an NYU professor and senior researcher at Meta Platforms, says warnings about the technology's existential peril are ‘complete B.S.’
More: TechCrunch, AIM, and Cafe Hayek
Threads: @yannlecun. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Rahul Chadha and Hilal Lashuel. Forums: r/singularity
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds an option in iOS 18.1 to let users set a “Primary” email address in Settings, letting users change the email associated with their Apple Account — In iOS 18.1, there is a new option to set a “Primary” email address in the Settings app, which means it is easier to change …
More: 9to5Mac, Neowin, PCMag, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Thurrott, AppleInsider, NewsBytes, and Tabletmonkeys
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: |
Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more — Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics …
X: @epfl_en, @theomitsa, @abatanasov, and @quantamagazine
| Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Chinese video surveillance tech supplier Hikvision plans to lay off 1,000+ employees in its R&D department; Hikvision denied any “large-scale lay-offs” — The Hangzhou-based company says it is optimising its research manpower, while denying large-scale lay-offs
Source: Sina.com
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu had $200M in net profit on $1B+ revenue in Q1 2024, up from $40M in net profit on ~$600M revenue in Q1 2023 — Shanghai-based start-up has been a rare success story in a sector hit by bankruptcies and falling valuations| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself — The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/conservativeterrorism, r/collapse, r/inthenews, r/politics, r/skeptic, r/weather, r/chemtrails, r/TropicalWeather, r/Foodforthought, r/ThatsInsane, r/centrist, r/florida, r/NorthCarolina, r/nottheonion, r/news, r/inthenews, r/idiocracy, r/collapse, r/ClimateNews, r/Destiny, r/usanews, r/neoliberal, r/facepalm, r/environment, r/politics, r/Miami, and r/technology
| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching — Important new study from Apple — A superb new article on LLMs from six AI researchers at Apple who were brave enough …
More: AppleInsider, arXiv, Business Today, International Business Times, The Decoder, and TechCrunch
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, r/technology, r/LocalLLaMA, and lobste.rs
| Washington Post: |
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