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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A 2019 email by Xbox Game Studios' Matt Booty encouraged buying content to “spend Sony out of business”; Microsoft argues the company didn't pursue the strategy — Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios chief, Matt Booty, was encouraging Xbox CFO Tim Stuart to spend big money …
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Forums: r/xboxone and r/XboxSeriesX
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI is killing the web with spam sites, mass article producing “AI editors”, AI-generated junk on Etsy, Reddit, and Wikipedia that exhausts moderators, and more — In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links.
More: MIT Technology Review, Beyond Search, and The Overspill
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Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and Slashdot
| NewsGuard: |
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
A Pixel Fold reviewer says the device's flexible OLED screen died after four days of light use, starting at the bottom and moving upwards, likely due to debris — The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen. — A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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Forums: r/GooglePixel, r/hardware, r/PixelFold, r/GalaxyFold, and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
How routine drug use by Silicon Valley executives moved from an after-hours activity squarely into corporate culture, causing issues for boards and tech leaders — Entrepreneurs including Elon Musk and Sergey Brin are part of a drug movement that proponents hope will expand minds, enhance lives and produce business breakthroughs
More: Axios. Twitter: @tatichin, @nycsouthpaw, @bendreyfuss, @sspencer_smb, @mattyglesias, @davecbenoit, @mroliverbarnes, and @karaswisher
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Decentralized social media app Damus says Apple rejected an app update and told the company to remove its tipping feature or use Apple's in-app purchase system — Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple's strict payment rules.
More: AppleInsider, CryptoGlobe, International Business Times, Watcher Guru, Developer Tech News, Decrypt, and mjtsai.com
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Some doctors say that their current best use for generative AI is to ease the heavy burden of documentation, which takes hours a day and contributes to burnout — The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.
Twitter: @zacharylipton, @stevelohr, @stevelohr, @chrissyfarr, and @morgancheatham
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Thomson Reuters agrees to acquire YC-backed Casetext, which builds AI-powered workflows and tools for lawyers, for $650M in cash, expected to close in H2 2023 — Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok plans to close TikTok Now, its BeReal clone announced in September 2022, without giving a reason; usage estimates suggest BeReal's popularity has faded — TikTok is killing off its BeReal clone TikTok Now, according to notifications being sent to users.| Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: |
John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100 — An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today's electronic devices.
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LinkedIn: Paulo Ferreira. Twitter: @readingkafka, @kamatlabnd, @nytscience, @jp_loksatta, @silananotech, @nytimes, and @quantamagazine
Forums: r/chemistry and Slashdot
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu claims Ernie 3.5, the latest version of its LLM, has surpassed ChatGPT in general abilities and outperformed GPT-4 on many Chinese-language capabilities — Baidu Inc.'s ChatGPT-style service has outperformed OpenAI's seminal product on several measures, China's search leader said on Tuesday.
More: Baidu Research, PCMag, Coinspeaker, Reuters, CNBC, Tech in Asia, and TechNode
| David Meyer / Fortune: |
A last-minute amendment to an Irish bill would let the Data Protection Commission declare some info in privacy complaints as “confidential”, sparking an uproar — European privacy advocates are hopping mad at what they see as an attempt by the Irish government to draw a veil …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/ireland
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Amazon's army of smaller AI-powered warehouse robots, including Proteus, which carries suitcase-sized bins of packages and works alongside humans — A wave of advanced machines is coming to the company's facilities thanks to better AI and robots smart enough to work with—and without—humans.| Brian Fung / CNN: |
A look at how the $42.5B US broadband infrastructure plan will be allocated: Texas leads with $3.3B+, California gets $1.8B+, Missouri gets $1.7B+, and more — The Biden administration on Monday outlined how states across the country will be receiving billions of dollars in federal funding …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israeli autonomous cloud security startup Cyera raised a $100M Series B led by Accel with Sequoia and others participating, a source says at a $500M valuation — The Israeli company's data security platform learns an enterprise's unique data and business purpose using large language models …
More: TechCrunch and Cyera US
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
A survey of 20+ professionals finds all but one do not plan to buy the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, citing Apple's cheaper and similarly powerful laptops and desktops — Apple's latest Mac Pro targets professionals with highly demanding computing workloads. But we talked to those professionals … | Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
Meta launches parental controls for Messenger in the US, the UK, and Canada, letting parents view their child's contacts and activity but not message contents — Meta is rolling out more child-safety features as government scrutiny heats up — Amid growing pressure from state …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque says Head of Research David Ha resigned and COO Ren Ito was “let go” in June 2023; VP of Product Christian Cantrell left in March — Stability AI, the closely watched artificial intelligence startup, has lost at least two top executives in recent weeks … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says WhatsApp Business crossed 200M MAUs, up from 50M in 2020, adds a tool to let users create “click-to-WhatsApp” ads without a Facebook account, and more — Meta announced today that WhatsApp Business, its app designed specifically for small businesses … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta announces Quest+, a VR subscription service that gives Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro users access to two games every month for $7.99/month or $59.99/year — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced Quest Plus, the company's new “virtual reality subscription” that gives users access to “the best titles on the platform,” he said.
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LinkedIn: Nathaniël de Jong. Twitter: @metaquestvr, @vr_oasis, @dennycloudhead, @nathievr, @nathievr, @dewdydoes, @camfaulkner, @devrelcallum, @wario64, and @multicallum. Forums: r/QuestPro
| Jane Lee / Reuters: |
Snowflake partners with Nvidia to allow customers to build AI models using their own data, with Nvidia embedding its NeMo framework into Snowflake Data Cloud — Snowflake (SNOW.N) a cloud data analytics company, is partnering with computing company Nvidia (NVDA.O) to allow customers ranging … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Data streaming service Redpanda raised a $100M Series C led by Lightspeed, GV, and HaystackVC, following a $50M Series B in February 2022 — Redpanda helps companies capture data in real time in a modern context, providing a new way to stream data while maintaining backwards compatibility with Kafka …
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