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DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it a Chinese military company, says the DOD didn't engage on the issue for over 16 months — - US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
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Fuji Soft's board decided to keep backing KKR's ~$4B buyout offer despite Bain's $4.2B bid, in a rare battle between PE titans over a Japanese software company — Private equity titans cause a stir in the country, with a rare battle over Japanese software company| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Six months after bitcoin halving, some miners are keeping the Bitcoin they produce while an increasing number of companies are spending more on AI data centers — - Shares of firms keeping tokens they mint are lagging Bitcoin — Best performers are spending on developing AI data centers
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| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on how internet traffic surge during COVID helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, internet balkanization, more — I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository — Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in Northern California, asking it to intervene and restore … | Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: |
Meta Quest 3S teardown: has the same single LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics as Quest 2 but uses two IR flood illuminators for depth mapping instead of one — The Quest 3S is a curious device. I think we were all expecting a budget version of the Quest 3, but that's not quite what this headset is.| Bloomberg: |
Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools — About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.
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How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions — Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists can't get enough.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid — John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.
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| Marah Eakin / Wired: |
Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short — Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools … | Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini — The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails.
More: Ars Technica, Inc, PC Gamer, and Tom's Hardware
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only — Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company's first open-source multimodal language model capable …
More: Meta, The Indian Express, Cryptopolitan, MarkTechPost, and Reuters
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Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models — Mira Murati, former chief technology officer at OpenAI, is raising funds from venture capitalists for her new AI startup, according to sources familiar with the matter.Sponsor Posts
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