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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual sexual images of others, including deepfakes, and require platforms to remove them — Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images.
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Forums: r/politics and r/technology
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Critics fear the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety laws to pass in years, could be weaponized against content the Trump admin or its allies dislike — Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption.
More: Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Washington Examiner
Forums: r/technology, r/technology, and r/minnesota
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters — Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches …
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI says it will start showing product recommendations in ChatGPT, even for logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' sites — OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. WIRED spoke with Adam Fry …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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| Joey Roulette / Reuters: |
Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites it plans to send into low-Earth orbit — The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of a shift to become “AI-first” — The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors …
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive on GPT-4o's tendency to give sycophantic responses, an issue Sam Altman promised to fix and that may be caused by OpenAI optimizing for engagement — GPT-4o tells you what it thinks you want to hear. — The results of this were rather ugly. You get extreme sycophancy. Absurd praise.
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| CNBC: |
Temu adds “import charges” of between 130% and 150% “due to recent changes in global trade rules and tariffs”; Shein also hikes prices but without explicit fees — Chinese e-tailer Temu has started adding “import charges” of about 145% in response to President Donald Trump's tariffs.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail a growing rift between Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, whose partnership began after a 2018 meeting; Microsoft can block OpenAI's for-profit move — The OpenAI and Microsoft CEOs helped each other become power players in generative AI but are now preparing for independent futures| Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a group of Wall Street banks has sold the final $1.2B of X debt at 98 cents on the dollar, after lending $13B for Elon Musk's Twitter takeover in 2022 — The loans sat on banks' books for 2½ years until Donald Trump's election rapidly changed company's fortunes
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and The Information. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
| Josh Richman / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its probe of ex-CISA chief Chris Krebs, calling it political and harmful — Political Retribution for Telling the Truth Weakens the Entire Infosec Community and Threatens Our Democracy; Letter Remains Open for Further Sign-Ons
More: Politico, The Record, Cybersecurity Dive, CyberScoop, Washington Times, Nextgov/FCW, NBC News, and SC Media
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| Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: |
Nothing announces the $279 CMF Phone 2 Pro, with a 6.77" 120Hz AMOLED display and three rear cameras, including a 50MP telephoto lens, plus three new earbuds — Nothing's affordable sub-brand, CMF, has announced a new phone alongside a trio of earbuds. The CMF Phone 2 Pro …
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X: @stufflistings, @soursillypickle, @cmfbynothing, @mkbhd, @rigvedp1, @mishaalrahman, @getpeid, @cmfbynothing, @mkbhd, and @korotharjun
Forums: r/CMFTech, r/NOTHING, r/IndiaTech, r/GadgetsIndia, and r/Android
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