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Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources say Apple still plans a cheaper model by the end of 2025 — Apple Suspends Work on Next High-End Headset, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025 Apple has told at least one supplier …
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Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the world's most valuable public company, with a $3.34T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 — Nvidia, long known in the niche gaming community for its graphics chips, is now the most valuable public company in the world.
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| Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt: |
Consensys says the US SEC is “closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0” and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions” — Leading Ethereum developer Consensys announced late Tuesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is …
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| Mike Masnick / The Daily Beast: |
The US surgeon general's call for social media warning labels seems to ignore evidence and may feed into a moral panic, similar to prior panics over video games — SCREEN BURN — Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy is wrong about the harmful effects of social media on kids …
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The US FTC says it has referred a complaint to the DOJ against TikTok and ByteDance over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had referred a complaint to the Justice Department against the social media platform TikTok …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
A former Snap engineer debuts Butterflies, a social network where users can create AI personas that then interact with users and other AIs via posts and DMs — Butterflies is a social network where humans and AIs interact with each other through posts, comments and DMs.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
A look at Mozilla's acquisition of Anonym, which offers “privacy-preserving” ad tools, and how Anonym might interact with a user base that tends to block ads — Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes? — ANALYSIS Mozilla this week …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is incredible, all-day battery, a gorgeous 15.6" OLED screen, and $1,299 for 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM — Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite elevates this Windows laptop from a good all-rounder to a great one.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
FOI documents: eight UK train stations scanned passenger faces for two years as part of AI trials; Amazon software was used to predict age, gender, and emotions — CCTV cameras and AI are being combined to monitor crowds, detect bike thefts, and spot trespassers.
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| Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post: |
The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses — The company is among the first to run afoul of a union-backed law aimed at protecting warehouse workers from aggressive productivity quotas.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
A study of 10 chatbots, including Perplexity and ChatGPT, shows they often repeat Russian disinformation and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites — - Entering 57 prompts into 10 leading chatbots, NewsGuard found they spread Russian disinformation narratives 32% of the time …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Qilin, a cohort of Russian-speaking hackers, claims responsibility for the ransomware attack impacting London hospitals for weeks and demands a $50M ransom — - Russian-speaking Qilin gang claims responsibility for breach — Pathology services company Synnovis targeted in extortion| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD is working with police and a host provider to investigate a claim that company data was stolen, after a BreachForums user said they breached AMD's systems — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-largest maker of personal computer processors, is looking into claims that company information was stolen in a hack.
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| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
A Google DeepMind study involving 20 professional comedians who already use AI in their work finds LLMs struggled to produce material that was original or funny — AI is good at lots of things: spotting patterns in data, creating fantastical images, and condensing thousands of words into just a few paragraphs.| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024 — Tech company willing to open mobile pay system to rivals in concessions that will help avoid antitrust fines from the bloc
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