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Apple says it is working to fix an issue after users said its automatic dictation system was transcribing the word “racist” as “Trump”, before correcting itself — The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.
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Forums: r/politics, r/iphone, r/MarchAgainstNazis, r/apple, r/Conservative, and MacRumors Forums
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How the hackers behind the $1.5B Bybit crypto heist used UI manipulation of employee devices and social engineering to gain control of ETH multisig cold wallets — The cryptocurrency industry and those responsible for securing it are still in shock following Friday's heist, likely by North Korea …
More: The Trail of Bits Blog, Check Point Research, and The Crypto Times
Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com and @Edent.mastodon.social …
Forums: r/Buttcoin and Ars OpenForum
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: Meta is in talks to build a new data center campus for AI that could cost over $200B, based on the number of chips and the amount of power for the site — Meta Platforms is in talks to build a new data center campus for its artificial intelligence endeavors that would dwarf anything …
More: Capacity Media, Digit, Hindustan Times, Reuters, TipRanks Financial, and Tech in Asia
X: @amir and @anissagardizy8
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve's Steam Deck, launched in 2022, has been dominating the handheld PC gaming market, with about 50% market share in 2024, according to IDC — Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, MSI Claw: The Steam Deck is bigger than them combined. … Today is the third anniversary of Valve's Steam Deck …
More: Gameranx, TelecomLead, TechSpot, Push Square, Pocket-lint, Forbes, and GamingBolt
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk. X: @rodimus_j, @genepark, @loganopiano, @carygolomb, @playeressence, and @stealth40k
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, r/gaming, r/SteamDeck, and r/Steam
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI expands Deep Research to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise users, with 10 queries per month; Pro users now have 120 queries per month, up from 100 — A $200 Pro subscription is no longer required to use the tool. — When OpenAI announced Deep Research at start of February …
More: Business Today, Tom's Guide, VentureBeat, TechRadar, Analytics India Magazine, Neowin, Nairametrics, TechCrunch, MakeUseOf, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and Tech in Asia
X: @openai, @sama, @openai, @morqon, @openai, @noahpinion, @liamfedus, @kevinweil, and @openaidevs
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
WBD closes three game studios and cancels a highly anticipated Wonder Woman title in a bid to boost the profitability of its interactive entertainment business — - Company halts work on highly anticipated Wonder Woman title — Closures follow several disappointing releases last year
More: Polygon, Kotaku, The Verge, Windows Central, TheGamer, Reuters, Engadget, Mashable, Gameranx, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, The Hollywood Reporter, IGN, Deadline, AIPT, Game File, 80 Level, Pure Xbox, Dexerto, TweakTown, Cord Cutters News, Aftermath, PlayStation LifeStyle, Neowin, Press Start, Push Square, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, PC Gamer, GeekWire, Gizmodo, Gameranx, Gematsu, Screen Rant, GameSpot, Video Games Chronicle, Destructoid, Comic Book, XboxEra, and Variety
Bluesky: @jasonschreier, @jasonschreier, @biologicalriley, @ianipoos.com, @ethangach, @jasonschreier, and @jasonschreier
X: @ethangach, @thequiver_, @photoshop_gy, @wario64, @okami13_, @vinciusmedeiro6, @ethangach, @tomwarren, @shinobi602, @autrewolf, @jmaine518, @gmanlives, @cs11__, @jawmuncher, @synthpotato, @mroutsid3r, @stephentotilo, and @ethangach
Forums: r/gamernews, r/Games, r/pcgaming, r/kindafunny, r/RingerVerse, r/DCcomics, r/xbox, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/MultiVersusTheGame, and Slashdot
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes — Uniswap celebrated the news on X, calling it a “huge win for DeFi.” — What to know: … The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission … | Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Framework unveils the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300, priced at $1,099 for a pre-built model, and Framework Laptop 12 with a touch screen, price TBA — The Framework Laptop 13 is also getting an AMD-based update. — Framework is expanding its laptop lineup and getting into desktops.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
After backlash, YC deletes a demo video from X and LinkedIn of Optifye.AI, a startup it backs that is building AI performance monitoring for factory workers — A demo from Optifye.AI, a member of Y Combinator's current cohort, sparked a social media backlash that ended up with YC deleting it off its socials.
More: 404 Media, StrictlyVC, Gazetteer SF, Ritik Gulabrani on YouTube, The San Francisco Standard, and San Francisco Business Times
Bluesky: @samleecole and @jasonkoebler
X: @neverhimself, @mashcr0ft, @nexuist, @growing_daniel, @vcbrags, @adamlerman5, @archiexzzz, @litcapital, and @miranda_nover
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| Rick Whiting / CRN: |
IBM plans to acquire DataStax and its cloud database development platform to expand IBM's Watsonx AI portfolio; Crunchbase says DataStax has raised $342.6M — IBM said Tuesday it has a deal to acquire DataStax, including that company's database platform, data streaming technology …
More: The Register, DataStax, IBM, IBM, Verdict, DataStax, SiliconANGLE, Techstrong.ai, InfoWorld, Constellation Research, The New Stack, and The Stack
| Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek, which planned to release R2 in May 2025, now wants R2 out as soon as possible; DeepSeek owner High-Flyer built a 10K A100 GPU cluster in 2021 — DeepSeek is looking to press home its advantage. — The Chinese startup triggered a $1 trillion-plus sell-off … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out unlimited access to Voice and Think Deeper, powered by OpenAI's o1 model, to all Copilot users for free — You won't hit any limits using OpenAI's o1 reasoning model inside Copilot anymore. … Microsoft made OpenAI's o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users last month …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: in 2024, TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, became the first non-game app to reach $6B in annual in-app purchase revenue — TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, in 2024 became the first non-game app to reach $6 billion in in-app purchase revenue in a year.| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
xAI released a new Grok 3 voice mode featuring different personalities, including an 18+ “Unhinged” option and a “Sexy” one that role-plays sexual scenarios — On Sunday, xAI released a new voice interaction mode for its Grok 3 AI model that is currently available to its premium subscribers.
More: Moneycontrol, WinBuzzer, and TechIssuesToday.com
Bluesky: @paleofuture. X: @goodside, @deedydas, @foxarmer, @deedydas, @esyudkowsky, @north0fnorth, @elonmusk, @hovinthenorth, @deedydas, and @thisbrowngeek
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Reuters: |
Alibaba releases Wan 2.1, a family of open-source AI models for generating images and videos, available globally on Alibaba Cloud's ModelScope and Hugging Face — Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba (9988.HK) said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 …
More: The Information and CNBC
| Ellen Barry / New York Times: |
The American Psychological Association warns the US FTC that AI chatbots “masquerading” as therapists could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others — The nation's largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots …
More: Inc. Bluesky: @hypervisible and @mjcrockett. LinkedIn: Daniel Oberhaus
Forums: r/therapists and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
Survey: 92% of UK undergrad students use AI to help them with their studies, up from 66% a year ago, raising questions about how universities assess their work — Rapid spread of technology raises questions about how to assess undergraduate work — The number of UK undergraduate students … | Noah Shachtman / Wired: |
A profile of Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian tech executive involved in a $93M insider trading scheme and released by the US in a 2024 prisoner swap with Russia — In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally …
Bluesky: @noahshachtman, @wired.com, @noahshachtman, @wired.com, @katie-drummond, @noahshachtman, and @noahshachtman
Forums: r/geopolitics and r/TrueReddit
| Business Insider: |
Sources: Mira Murati's new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is aiming to raise $1B at a ~$9B valuation; the round is in progress and details could change — - OpenAI's former CTO, Mira Murati, debuted her new startup, Thinking Machine Labs, last week. — The startup is aiming …
X: @julia_hornstein and @thebenbergman
| Anup Kaphle / Rest of World: |
Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia's KAUST, on the kingdom's AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more — With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who led the company from trailing eBay and Apple in online sales to becoming the world's second-largest e-commerce firm — The world's largest retailer has built an Apple-esque corporate campus in Bentonville, is selling Gucci online and is playing nice with Trump.| Nikkei Asia: |
China's aggressive expansion into mature chips, expected to account for 28% of the market in 2025, is driving prices down to previously unthinkable levels — TAIPEI — A “China shock” is coming for the chip industry as the country's aggressive expansion in older semiconductors …
More: New York Times, Appuals, TechNode, Bloomberg, eWeek, The Economist, and Financial Times
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple investors reject outside shareholder proposals asking the company to cease its DEI efforts and write a report assessing the risks of its work on AI — Apple Inc. investors rejected outside shareholder proposals that asked the iPhone maker to cease its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts …
More: BBC, CBS News, Quartz, Time, Associated Press, Reuters, Fast Company, Newser, The Japan Times, Alliance Defending Freedom, HR Brew, The Independent, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Washington Examiner, Irish Independent, Capital Brief, Cult of Mac, Telegraph, Yahoo Finance, Washington Post, Sherwood News, Business Insider, Fox Business, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @ramsey@phpc.social. X: @ev_trapper, @alexiskweed, @bizfleury, @markgurman, @jenn_elias, @munster_gene, @saltygoat17, @sussexhenryviii, @newsynick, @markgurman, @debbieforfl, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Gillian Marcelle, PhD
Forums: r/technology, r/technology, r/JordanPeterson, r/democrats, and r/news
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Access Now: 54 countries imposed internet shutdowns at least 296 times in 2024, led by Myanmar, displacing India from the top spot for the first time since 2018 — - “As internet access becomes consistently weaponized, restricted, and precarious, we are seeing pervasive patterns … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in July 2024, Microsoft told top GOP officials that Chinese hackers had accessed the RNC email system for months; the RNC chose not to alert the FBI — The previously unreported intrusion came as the Trump campaign was hacked by Iranian operativesSponsor Posts
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