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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
As concerns over Tesla's Full Self-Driving rise, former employees blame Elon Musk's erratic leadership, cost-cutting measures like removing radar, and more — Tesla's campaign to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle has suffered amid mounting safety concerns — and the boss's Twitter distraction
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An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more — “This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their “artistic IP” by adding almost imperceptible “perturbations” to their art — Generative art's style mimicry, interrupted — The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists …
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| Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
The FDIC plans to sell Signature Bank's deposits to Flagstar Bank, excluding those in its digital banking business, some loans, and Signature's 40 branches — A subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (NYCB.N) has entered into an agreement with U.S. regulators to purchase deposits and loans …
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| Inside Higher Ed: |
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections — A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades, say a group of current and former university librarians.
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| Maria Bustillos / The Nation: |
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| Carol E. Lee / NBC News: |
Source: in his upcoming testimony to Congress on March 23, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to reveal TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020 — When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal data that suggests …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Researchers detail “aCropalypse”, a bug in Google Pixel's Markup fixed in March 2023, where some edited screenshots can be retroactively unredacted or uncropped — Besides the Samsung Exynos modem issue, Android 13 QPR2 with the March 2023 security update fixes a vulnerability with the Pixel's Markup screenshot tool.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Microsoft plans to launch a mobile app store for games as soon as 2024 if the Activision bid is cleared and the EU's DMA rules for app stores come into effect — Xbox boss Phil Spencer says store could launch as soon as next year if regulators clear Activision Blizzard deal
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Runway, which helped create Stable Diffusion, announces its Gen 2 system to generate three second snippets of video from prompt words, available via a waitlist — Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images. For months, services like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion … | Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Replika and Character.AI now block adult content in their chatbots, angering users who became deeply involved with them, some considering themselves married — After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier reached ~1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company fulfilled its forecasted deliveries to advertisers — Good afternoon from Los Angeles. It's good to be home and I hope your March Madness bracket is doing better than mine.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How open source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping debunk claims — Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.Sponsor Posts
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