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A look at Apple's hubris that doomed the electric car project, spring hardware updates without a dedicated event, and Dan Riccio's retirement plans — Apple's belief that it could create a better car than Tesla and the rest of the automotive industry ultimately led to the downfall of the project.
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Legal experts say Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI is a stretch because handshakes and expectations are hard to enforce, but it does make a strong policy argument — The Elon Musk lawsuit filed yesterday in California against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman left legal experts scrambling to analyze the bombshell claims.
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| New York Times: |
Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft's research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI — In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up's closest partner.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers create an AI worm that can spread between generative AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or spread malware — Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents …
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips — More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break.| Gareth Harris / Financial Times: |
How AI is being used to evaluate the authenticity of paintings, amid conservators' concerns of whether the tech can account for wear, damage, and other factors — Machine learning can be the difference between a charming picture and a masterpiece worth millions| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia's rules — A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways. But after a fight over the platform's rules, they went rogue.| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
AMD is unable to release an open-source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 — One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year — Old code piles up and raises the risk of hacks and other breaches, even on new devices. Our compounding ‘technical debt’
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| Jatin Grover / FE Tech Bytes: |
India's communications and IT minister says delisting of popular Play Store apps “cannot be permitted”; Google reinstates some apps without IAPs — Sources said reinstating some of the apps was not linked to the government's position but with the concerned apps complying with the Play Store Billing policies.| Washington Post: |
Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good — Some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good — She had cut off contact with her ex, put a thousand miles between them and started therapy.
X: @washingtonpost, @nickparkerstet, and @lisabonos
Forums: r/UpliftingNews, r/TwoXChromosomes, r/AWDTSGisToxic, and r/afterAWDTSG
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Supermicro, a beneficiary of the AI boom, joins the S&P 500 after its stock grew 20x+ in the past two years and 200%+ in 2024, pushing its market cap past $50B — - Shares of Super Micro Computer rose more than 8% in extended trading after the server assembler was selected to join the S&P 500 index.
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