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The European Commission issues a preliminary view in its antitrust investigation of Google and suggests the company divest its ad business; Google can now reply — The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that …
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LinkedIn: Jochen Schlosser and Abigail Dubiniecki
Mastodon: @profcarroll@federate.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
Tweets: @vestager, @eu_competition, @ingrahamangle, @johnnyryan, @jason_kint, @eu_commission, @tomwarren, @doctorow, @auerdirk, @charlesarthur, @aripap, @aexm, @pdmcleod, @adrianweckler, @samuelstolton, @jason_kint, @lewis_crofts, @quinnypig, and @margaridasilva2
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, and r/worldnews
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Lens gets a feature that searches skin conditions “visually similar to what you see on your skin”, while warning the results are “not a diagnosis” — Along with Maps Live View, Lens is Google's most promising AR service, and it now has the ability to recognize skin conditions.
More: The Keyword, TechCrunch, CNET, Android Police, PhoneArena, BigTechWire, Chrome Unboxed, BGR, Tom's Guide, Droid Life, PetaPixel, Mashable, and Android Central
Tweets: @techcrunch and @arlenechung
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping gets a virtual try-on clothing feature that uses a diffusion-based generative AI model, letting US users see how items look on many human models — Google, ever eager to lean into generative AI, is launching a new shopping feature that shows clothes on a lineup of real-life fashion models.
More: The Keyword, Wired, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Verge, Neowin, Android Central, TechEBlog, CNET, BigTechWire, PetaPixel, Fast Company, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @abigailjhess
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
The European Parliament passes a draft AI Act to curtail facial recognition, force data disclosures, and more; a final version is expected to pass later in 2023 — A draft law in the European Parliament has become the world's most far-reaching attempt to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
The US National Music Publishers' Association sues Twitter, alleging the company violates the copyright of songwriters by using ~1,700 songs without permission — The National Music Publishers' Association sued Twitter Inc. Wednesday, alleging it violates the copyright of songwriters by using …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
In a case study, researchers estimate that between 33% and 46% of Mechanical Turk workers used LLMs when completing a text summarization task — File this one under inevitable, but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans …
More: arXiv.org. Tweets: @manoelribeiro, @jeremybowers, @rstephens, @emollick, @noahpinion, and @atabarrok. Forums: Hacker News
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says a Galaxy Watch update coming this summer will add an Irregular Heart Rhythm Notifications feature in 13 markets, including the US and South Korea — In a new announcement this week, Samsung has officially confirmed that it has a new smartwatch coming later this year … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Some hackers are impersonating cybersecurity researchers on Twitter and GitHub to post fake zero-day proof-of-concept exploits that push Windows/Linux malware — Hackers are impersonating cybersecurity researchers on Twitter and GitHub to publish fake proof-of-concept exploits for zero …
More: VulnCheck, Tech Monitor, SC Media, CSO, Infosecurity, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @alvierid, @jgamblin, @vulncheckai, and @seanwrightsec
| Kenneth Chang / New York Times: |
IBM details using its 127-qubit quantum processor to simulate the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets, known as the Ising model, in less than a millisecond — A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer.
More: Nature, Forbes, IBM Research Blog, Ars Technica, Berkeley News, IBM Technology on YouTube, New Scientist, Nature, Wccftech, and insideHPC
LinkedIn: Alessandro Curioni, Arvind Krishna, Jay Gambetta, and Robert Loredo
Tweets: @arvindkrishna, @liv_lanes, @zlatko_minev, @quantum_graeme, @dariogila, and @tomgara
| Forbes: |
A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's mysterious associate who appears repeatedly in the SEC's lawsuit against the crypto exchange — CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao's mysterious associate Guangying Chen emerges as a key player in his company's operations …
More: Cointelegraph, Fortune, CCN.com, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @john__hyatt, @silvermanjacob, and @davidjeans2
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Amazon VP of EC2 Dave Brown says AWS is considering using AMD's new MI300 chips and declined to use Nvidia's DGX Cloud, for which Oracle is the first partner — Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), the world's largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips …
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Tweets: @thenerdlabs and @patrickmoorhead
Forums: r/AMD_Stock and Slashdot
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
Razer updates its Blade 14 laptop with AMD's Ryzen 9 7940HS, Nvidia's RTX 4060 or RTX 4070, up to 32GB of RAM, and a 14" QHD+ 240Hz display, starting at $2,400 — Despite running late and experiencing shipping delays, AMD's latest Zen 4 mobile chips with RDNA 3 graphics and Ryzen AI … | Nic Newman / Reuters Institute: |
Reuters' 2023 Digital News Report: despite fragmentation, users' dependence on social media platforms for news keeps growing; Facebook declines and TikTok gains — This year's report comes against the backdrop of a global cost-of-living crisis, a continuing war in the heart of Europe, and further climate instability across the world.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As 8,000+ subreddits go dark, Google's search results, which are often improved with human-sounding information by appending “reddit” to a query, have suffered — Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit's upcoming API changes, and it's shown me just how much I rely …
More: TechRadar, Fortune, Search Engine Journal, and Washington Post
Tweets: @broderick, @broskifgc, @keep_indoors, @tonyajoriley, @realhumanschwab, @gabrielayuso, and @nikitabier. Forums: r/technology
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Munich-based Fernride, which develops technology for autonomous driving and remote control of electric yard trucks, raised a $31M Series A — Fernride's teleoperated yard truck technology platform not only provides a sustainable alternative to diesel-powered trucks but also addresses the challenges posed by driver shortages.
More: Fernride, TechCrunch, and EU-Startups
| Victor Dey / VentureBeat: |
Canva announces a new SDK, a set of APIs, and a $50M fund to help developers build apps for its marketplace — Canva, the visual communication platform, unveiled its Canva Developers Platform today at Canva Extend, its inaugural developer conference in San Francisco.| Axios: |
Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI; experts are split on whether Section 230 applies — Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI …
More: Senator Josh Hawley, Gizmodo, Engadget, Social Media Today, Cointelegraph, CNET, Reuters, and The Hill
Tweets: @neilturkewitz, @senblumenthal, @montezumachavez, @caro, @hawleymo, @kevincollier, and @abigailmarone
| River Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Japanese ride-hailing app Go, which has a nearly 75% local market share, as some taxi operators say founder Ichiro Kawanabe pushed them to avoid Uber — Challenge in Japan shows how local operators can derail ride-hailing app's overseas ambitions
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