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| 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, Android Police, CNET, BigTechWire, Chrome Unboxed, PhoneArena, Droid Life, PetaPixel, Android Central, Mashable, BGR, and Tom's Guide
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, Livemint, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechEBlog, Android Central, CNET, BigTechWire, Neowin, PetaPixel, Fast Company, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @abigailjhess
| 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 …
More: The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, Music Business Worldwide, PYMNTS.com, Variety, Reuters, Deadline, Dexerto, Mashable, The Information, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, and Digital Music News
Tweets: @revhowardarson, @zoeschiffer, @birdrespecter, @compound248, @sarahfrier, @pearlf, @rwmead, @zoeschiffer, and @flglmn
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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 …
More: European Commission, New York Times, Reuters, Ars Technica, The Keyword, CNBC, European Commission, The Guardian, Politico, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Associated Press, The Information, epceurope, Insider, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, Mashable, Android Central, PhoneArena, The Irish Times, The Register, Livemint, Search Engine Land, Financial Times, PCMag, BigTechWire, The Hill, MarketWatch, MobileSyrup, Pocket Gamer.biz, Silicon Valley Business …, OnMSFT.com, Investor's Business Daily, Gizmodo, New York Post, Android Authority, CNN, South China Morning Post, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, and Barron's Online
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, @auerdirk, @charlesarthur, @aripap, @aexm, @pdmcleod, @adrianweckler, @samuelstolton, @jason_kint, @lewis_crofts, @quinnypig, @doctorow, and @margaridasilva2
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, and r/worldnews
| 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, @veredshwartz, @rstephens, @jeremybowers, @emollick, @noahpinion, and @atabarrok. Forums: Hacker News
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft researchers detail Cadet Blizzard, a GRU hacking group they claim is behind WhisperGate data-wiping attacks in Ukraine just before Russia's invasion — Microsoft has linked a threat group it tracks as Cadet Blizzard since April 2023 to Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU).
More: Microsoft Security Blog, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, Microsoft On the Issues, PaymentSecurity.io, Dark Reading, SC Media, and SecurityWeek
LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman. Tweets: @msftsecintel, @vasujakkal, and @securepeacock. Forums: r/InfoSecNews
| 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.
More: European Parliament, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Access Now, Insider, CNBC, TIME, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, BEUC, Fortune, Newser, The Decoder, PCMag, Fast Company, Cointelegraph, Computerworld, CoinJournal, IEEE Spectrum, Android Authority, CryptoSlate, AI News, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Tech Monitor, Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, The Guardian, PC Gamer, and Business Post
LinkedIn: Doowan Lee, Vibhav Mithal, Caitlin Fennessy, Eva Maydell, and Margaret Rosenfeld
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More: The Guardian and New York Times
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Tweets: @sashamtl, @riptari, @maosbot, @timandraharknes, and @stefanfschubert
| 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, SC Media, Tech Monitor, Infosecurity, CSO, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @alvierid, @jgamblin, @vulncheckai, and @seanwrightsec
| 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 … | 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: Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, Fortune, Cryptonews, CCN.com, and Cryptopolitan
Tweets: @john__hyatt, @silvermanjacob, and @davidjeans2
| 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, Nature, Wccftech, New Scientist, and insideHPC
LinkedIn: Alessandro Curioni, Arvind Krishna, Jay Gambetta, and Robert Loredo
Tweets: @arvindkrishna, @liv_lanes, @zlatko_minev, @quantum_graeme, @dariogila, and @tomgara
| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Didi has a market cap of ~$14B, one year after its NYSE delisting, and has maintained a ~70% share in China's ride-hailing market, despite Beijing's crackdown — A delisting from the US Big Board often marks the end of a company's traction with big investors. For Didi Global Inc., the story couldn't be more different.
LinkedIn: Gufeng Ren
| 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.| 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
| 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.
More: The Guardian, Social Media Today, Agence France-Presse, Tech News Outlet, Nieman Lab, Reuters Institute, Tubefilter, Insider, ZDNet, Reuters, BBC, Crikey, Fox News, The Guardian, Press Gazette, and Metro
| Financial Times: |
Sources: at a May meeting, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority questioned HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China on why they were not accepting crypto clients — Regulators are pushing for banks to accept more exchanges as clients in quest to develop digital assets industry
More: Reuters
| 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Cryptopolitan, iTnews, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Fast Company, Silicon Valley Business …, Investor's Business Daily, Tech Xplore, NBC Bay Area, Tech Monitor, Cointelegraph, WebProNews, Reuters, Barron's Online, and Wccftech
Tweets: @thenerdlabs and @patrickmoorhead
Forums: r/AMD_Stock and Slashdot
| 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, Daring Fireball, Fortune, Search Engine Journal, and Washington Post
Tweets: @broderick, @broskifgc, @keep_indoors, @tonyajoriley, @realhumanschwab, @gabrielayuso, and @nikitabier. Forums: r/technology
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