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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by committing to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate — Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at the dire state of Americans' privacy, worsened by credit bureaus' data policies; Telegram bots sell troves of personal info on targets for ~$15 in BTC — It took only a few seconds to uncover the target's entire life. — On the messaging app Telegram, I entered a tiny amount …
More: New York Times and Pixel Envy
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X: @evacide, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @justfutureslaw, @josephfcox, @realhackhistory, @josephfcox, and @dcuthbert. LinkedIn: Jason Koebler. Forums: Hacker News
| Dave James / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered Ray Reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image and improve clarity, available on all RTX GPUs — Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays. — Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology.
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Forums: r/Games, r/pcgaming, r/hardware, r/hardware, and r/pcmasterrace
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a public preview of Python in Excel, which will run Python calculations in Azure, first on Windows and then other platforms “at a later date” — Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel. A public preview of the feature is available today …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/blueteamsec, r/Python, r/programming, r/Accounting, and r/technology
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material scraped without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates — On CivitAI, a site for sharing image generating AI models, users can browse thousands of models that can produce any kind …
Mastodon: @luis_in_brief@social.coop. X: @othernedwin, @emilymbender, @josephfcox, @dlberes, and @emanuelmaiberg
Forums: r/ArtistHate, r/aiwars, and Beehaw
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta plans to let Instagram and Facebook users in the EU opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with the DSA — Instagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta's recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today.
More: Meta, The Information, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, Fortune, Cybernews.com, CyberScoop, 9to5Mac, PetaPixel, Mashable, BGR, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, and Engadget
Mastodon: @gedankenstuecke@scholar …. Bluesky: @andipalmur.bsky.social. X: @mattnavarra, @metanewsemea, and @kpmacleod
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation dataset — In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo, letting developers, for a fee, customize models with their own data to make them perform better for their use cases — OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve …
More: OpenAI, The Verge, The Decoder, and Search Engine Journal
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says that X plans to remove preview headlines from posts linking to articles, so that the previews show only the article's lead image and the URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta is rolling out a Threads web app over the next few days that will let users post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed — Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. You'll be able to post, interact with other posts …
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Threads: @zuck, @conorsen, @mosseri, @katieharbath, @mossbergwalt, @mosseri, @crumbler, @brianstelter, @moskov, @0xjessel, @threads, and @carnage4life. Mastodon: @simevidas@mastodon.social. Forums: r/technology
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An analysis of Google policy dilemmas as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train AI, and lawsuits threaten to upend copyright law — Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Ivanti warns of a Sentry API authentication bypass flaw being exploited in the wild, after hackers used another Ivanti zero-day to breach Norway's government — US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.
More: forums.ivanti.com, Tenable Blog, SC Media, and DataBreachToday.com
| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
3D printer maker Bambu Lab blames a cloud outage for an issue that caused some of its customers' devices to start printing without their consent — Bambu Lab says it will help with repairs, replacement parts. — Imagine waking in the middle of the night to the sound of your 3D printer, printing away.
More: Bambu Lab Blog, TechSpot, and GovTech
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Meta says it remains committed to rolling out default E2EE for Messenger, which has opt-in E2EE, by the end of 2023, and shortly afterwards for Instagram DMs — Meta plans to roll out default end-to-end encryption for its Messenger product by the end of this year, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday.| Bloomberg: |
Arm spent 3,500+ words in its 330-page IPO prospectus explaining its risks in China, its single biggest market that accounted for ~24% of its FY 2023 revenue — - Geopolitical tensions, China economic woes hurting sales — Power struggle with fired China unit CEO still casts shadow
More: Reuters, Fortune, Light Reading, and Financial Times
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Bluesky: @tristanr.bsky.social. X: @arjunkharpal, @ecommerceshares, @_hasanc, @_hasanc, @tiernanraytech, @natebecker, @tanayj, @maxwinebach, and @maxwinebach. Forums: r/hardware
| The Information: |
Salesforce Ventures is leading a funding round in Hugging Face; sources: the round is for ~$200M at $4B+ valuation, more than doubling its private valuation — Salesforce is leading a financing round in Hugging Face, one of the most highly valued startups helping businesses use artificial intelligence …
X: @benioff, @brianrumao, and @amir
| Ioannis Kouvakas / Just Security: |
A look at the UK government's planned revisions to its Investigatory Powers Act, including potential unintended consequences like slowing down security updates — The United Kingdom (U.K.) government has recently unveiled plans to revise the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) …
X: @sailingbikeruk, @misanthropegirl, @jjaron, @gazthejourno, @rodolfor, @mer__edith, @alecmuffett, @jamesrbuk, @jsrailton, and @jsrailton
Forums: r/unitedkingdom and r/ukpolitics
| The Information: |
Sources: Tiger Global nears a deal to sell a ~2.1% stake in AI startup Cohere for ~$63M at a $3B valuation, up 40% from June 2023; Tiger will retain a ~5% stake — Tiger Global Management is nearing a deal to sell part of its stake in OpenAI rival Cohere at a roughly $3 billion valuation …
X: @alexktong, @tomaxwell, and @amir
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service's origin as Wikipedia's sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more — Today, I'm talking with Perkins Miller. He's the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney …
Forums: r/giantbomb
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo plans to close its $2.3B acquisition of ID verification software maker ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal — - Justice Department probed identify management software overlap — Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition …
More: The Information and SiliconANGLE
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus ROG Strix Scar X3D review: the $3,700, 17" gaming laptop outperforms a pricier Intel Core i9-13980HX-based rival by up to 20% due to AMD's Ryzen 9 7945HX3D — AMD proclaimed that its Ryzen 9 7945HX3D would be the world's fastest mobile gaming chip. It was right.
More: VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech, Windows Central, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Wccftech, and Guru3D.com. LinkedIn: Sasa Marinkovic
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