Sources: with watchOS 10, Apple plans to make widgets a core part of the Watch again; the widget system combines the old Glances and iOS 14's style of widgets
Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.
An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine
The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments.
Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve
Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …
The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic; the bank, which is slightly bigger than SVB, had $100B+ outflows
Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country's second-largest bank failure — JPMorgan Chase is to acquire …
On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal
Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors
Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries
The Super Mario Bros. Movie box office crosses $1B globally, becoming the most financially successful video game movie ever
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office.
Despite scary warnings by the FBI, FCC, and more about “juice jacking” at public charging stations, there are no documented cases ever of an attack in the wild
Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?
A profile of Will Wilkerson, a former Truth Social VP who blew the whistle, turned over 150K documents to the SEC and investigators, and now works at Starbucks
The former high-ranking executive of Trump's media company says he's shared 150,000 internal documents with federal investigators.
Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire German rival Flink, which also is seeking to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation
Discussions come as consolidation accelerates in one of the pandemic's hottest tech sectors — Grocery delivery app pioneer Getir …
NewsGuard finds 49 websites populated by generative AI posing as news outlets with generic names like News Live 79; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads
The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online …
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material
that's the nightmare scenario” https://www.nytimes.com/... Noam Scheiber / @noamscheiber : If you're stressed out about ChatGPT taking your job, consider what it must be like to be an actor and see th...
Sources: Meta managers built up “kingdoms” as headcount surged, before layoffs led to an unprecedented morale crisis and lower confidence in Mark Zuckerberg
Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce Mastodon: @atomicpoet@mastodon.social ....
Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from a subject, essentially reading a person's thoughts
An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports.
A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram's ban in the country for refusing to hand over data on two neo-Nazi groups, saying a complete ban “is not reasonable”
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient
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The creator of GPT4free, which lets anyone use GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 for free, says OpenAI threatened to sue if he didn't remove the GitHub repo within five days
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Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview
Arm confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO; sources say Arm seeks to raise between $8B-$10B on the Nasdaq, which is expected to be 2023's largest IPO
India's Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering investigation
Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's “commitment to collect minimal data”
Carmakers raise concerns over Chinese companies, led by Huawei, filing a deluge of standard essential patents for the tech to access 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi networks
Financial Times : LinkedIn: Daniel Senger and Simon Phipps . Tweets: @stevenconlon LinkedIn: Daniel Senger : EXCERPTS: In the era of internet-connected vehicles, Europe's carmakers are embroiled in i...
Earnings from Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel were better than expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth still lags
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An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety
not because he was excited about the technology — but because he believed it was a threat and hoped he could steer it in a safe direction. Now, he's admitting defeat. https://www.semafor.com/... Ben S...
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