Hollywood and music industry insiders, actors, and others say a TikTok ban could seriously hurt their businesses and are scrambling to create contingency plans
The entertainment industry has become so reliant on TikTok that banning the app could hurt business, industry insiders say
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots
Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability.
Source: Elon Musk offers Twitter staff stock grants at a ~$20B valuation which, with a $13B debt, implies a $33B enterprise value, ~11x 2023's projected revenue
Elon Musk offered Twitter employees stock grants at a valuation of roughly $20 billion, said a person familiar with an email Musk sent to staff …
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94
and the world it created Bloomberg : Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder Who Coined Chip Rule, Dies at 94 Aman Gupta / Livemint : Who was Gordon Moore? 10 things to know about the Intel co-founder Paul Alc...
Email: Twitter offers four-year equity grants to staff, on top of legacy equity, that will start to vest after six months and plans a liquidity event in a year
I've seen this movie before. Tweets: Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer : NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter employees an email about the state of Twitter 2.0. He acknowledged the company has been through a period ...
Sources: Apple demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for a group of its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite
Apple's push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch.
Eight current and former Apple employees share concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, utility, and unproven market
The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but a forced sale of its US operations may undermine the company's ability to fight adversarial threats
Wait until you hear about credit rating companies, HR companies, real estate verification companies … Tweets: Eva / @evacide : If you think the US needs a TikTok ban and not a comprehensive privacy la...
Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others
Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks. But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.
The hacker of DeFi lending protocol Euler Finance has returned 58,737 ETH, worth ~$102M, from the 96K ETH stolen in a flash-loan attack on March 13; EUL up 27%+
- The Euler hacker has returned 58,737 ETH from the 96,000 ETH stolen. — They previously returned 3,000 ETH.
A US federal judge rules in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending system
Today's lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow … Paul Hill / Neowin : Court rules against Internet Archive in favour of book publishers on digital lending United States Distric...
Sources: concerned about Chinese spying, the US helped SubCom win its $600M bid for an Asia-Europe subsea cable project through incentives and investor pressure
Subsea cables, which carry the world's data, are now central to the U.S.-China tech war. Washington, fearful of Beijing's spies …
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more
https://arxiv.org/... Sebastien Bubeck : At Microsoft Research some of us were lucky to have early access to the marvelous #GPT4 from OpenAI for our work on the new Bing. … Johannes Gehrke : Based on ...
A look at the community of users who “jailbreak” GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI's closed policies
“The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies.” Tweets: @alexalbert__ , @alexalbert__ , @thedebrie...
OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers' personal info
How Meta could sidestep ATT's impairments by launching a mobile games store, as Apple reportedly prepares multiple app store support on iOS due to the EU's DMA
> download App Store —> download game Right? Or am I misreading the journey? Vivek Sharma / @pucknorris : @eric_seufert It is a great idea but a/ meta has thrown in the towel on Gaming from all appear...
Meta Quest Pro teardown: US parts account for 34% of the headset's estimated component costs, China 18%, South Korea 10%, Japan 3%, and 35% remain unidentified
Among the design differences between the Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 is the color; the new model is black rather than white.
Replika restores erotic roleplay for users who signed up before February 1, after complaints from some who considered themselves “married” to chatbot companions
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A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly “lifestyle bible” Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap
Known as China's “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap. Tweets: @restofworld , @mikeelgan , @violazhouyi , @openbarllc , @violazhouyi , @re...
Experts say some US suppliers plan to sidestep export controls by selling tech to the unlisted subsidiaries of Inspur and other Chinese firms on the Entity List
Suppliers can sell to unlisted subsidiaries of companies on Commerce Department list, officials say Tweets: @jchengwsj , @scs_disputes , @martijnrasser , @jchengwsj , @wstv_lizzi , @pstasiatech , and ...
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI's iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US' export controls, Nvidia's position in the stack in an LLM world, and more
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Tweets: @bradneuberg , @trengriffin , @wenyee_lee , and @stratechery Tweets: Brad Neuberg / @bradneuberg : Excellent interview between two smart folks who I like to follo...
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