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| Imran Rahman-Jones / BBC: |
The UK ICO is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over the company's Recall feature, which some privacy campaigners have called a potential “privacy nightmare” — The UK data watchdog says it is “making enquiries with Microsoft” over a new feature that can take screenshots of your laptop every few seconds.
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Forums: r/privacy and r/technology
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to launch a more conversational Alexa with generative AI features later in 2024, and charge a monthly subscription to offset the cost — WATCH NOW — Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence and plans to charge …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Humane is seeking a buyer for its business, after the rocky launch of its Ai Pin; a source says the startup, founded in 2018, is seeking $750M to $1B — - Humane's AI pin was billed as an alternative to smartphones — AI hardware product received poor reviews after its launch
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out its Magic Editor and other AI tools to all Android and iOS users for free via Photos, offering 10 Magic Editor library saves per month — Last month, Google Photos announced that it would be making Magic Editor and other AI-powered tools free for all Android and iOS users.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will soon let businesses build custom Copilot AI agents for automating tasks, and unveils Team Copilot to help with tasks in Teams, Loop, and Planner — Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically.
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| Financial Times: |
China releases an AI model trained on “Xi Jinping Thought” and other official literature, a source says currently for research, before a possible wider launch — Internet regulator uses Chinese leader's political philosophy to help answer questions posed to latest large language model
More: Engadget, South China Morning Post, and Benzinga
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Chinese automotive cybersecurity firm GoGoByte demonstrates a cheap and simple relay attack to unlock a Tesla Model 3 despite its ultra-wideband keyless system — Ultra-wideband radio has been heralded as the solution for “relay attacks” that are used to steal cars in seconds.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Spotify begins rolling out Spotify Mix, a new bespoke font, replacing the Circular typeface variant used in everything from playlists to marketing campaigns — Spotify's latest update is visibly changing the audio streaming service to improve the experience for your eyeballs, rather than your ears.
More: Spotify and TechCrunch
| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle is merely a reminder of AI's manifest-destiny philosophy: “This is happening, whether you like it or not”, consent be damned — If you're looking to understand the philosophy that underpins Silicon Valley's latest gold rush, look no further than OpenAI's Scarlett Johansson debacle.
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Link-in-bio startup Linktree passes 50M users, up from 41M in December 2023 and 47M+ in March 2024, and launches a beta of its social commerce product — Link-in-bio startup Linktree said on Wednesday that it has surpassed 50 million users. — The figure represents a significant uptick … | Scott Gilbertson / Wired: |
A review of privacy-focused /e/OS, a fully “deGoogled” OS based on the Android Open Source Project, that combines Micro G, to handle Google APIs, and LineageOS — Even if you aren't technically inclined, this privacy-first mobile operating system helps you escape surveillance capitalism.
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| Glenn Rifkin / New York Times: |
Gordon Bell, who helped design several influential minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation, including the 12-bit PDP-8, died on May 17 at age 89 — It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/vintagecomputing, and Ars OpenForum
| Wired: |
An investigation into ticketing service Eventbrite found 7,400+ illicit listings, such as for escort services and drugs, some of which its algorithm recommended — A WIRED investigation found thousands of Eventbrite posts selling escort services and drugs like Xanax and oxycodone …
Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. X: @knibbs, @iheartmalware, @wired, @ridgway_ctr, @dmehro, @wired, and @aj_boston
Forums: r/TrueReddit and Ars OpenForum
| Reuters: |
AWS plans to invest €15.7B in data centers in Spain's Aragon region, replacing a 2021 plan to spend €2.5B; the Aragon government says the deal is over 10 years — Tech giant Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud computing unit AWS will invest 15.7 billion euros ($17.02 billion) …
More: Bloomberg, DatacenterDynamics, Neowin, and Tech Xplore
| Thyagaraju Adinarayan / Bloomberg: |
Cambridge-based Raspberry Pi confirms plans for a London Stock Exchange IPO, aiming to raise $40M and listing in June, and reports $265.8M in 2023 revenue — - Set to sell $40 million in new shares and list on main market — Arm and Lansdowne Partners are cornerstone investors in IPO
More: The Register, Tom's Hardware, and Financial Times
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Chinese smartphone maker Honor plans to include Google's Gemini and Imagen 2, powered by Google Cloud, in upcoming devices, one of the first companies to do so — Chinese smartphone maker Honor on Wednesday became one of the first device makers to say it will bring Google's artificial intelligence features to its upcoming devices.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Cologne-based AI translation startup DeepL, which develops its own models, raised $300M led by Index Ventures at a $2B valuation and reports 100K+ customers — The round, led by Index Ventures, reflects businesses' increasing interest in function-specific AI models
More: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, EU-Startups, Tech Startups, and OTPP
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
How Pinecone and other startups use vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, to help businesses link their private data with LLMs — Vector databases were an obscure technology until Pinecone and other startups turned it into a billion-dollar market amid the AI boomSponsor Posts
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