The Writers Guild of America calls for a strike after negotiations with Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and others over pay and AI issues failed; around 12K may strike
The Writers Guild of America, the union that bargains on behalf of Hollywood's screenwriters, has called a strike after negotiations …
A profile of and interview with deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who shares why he now thinks neural networks represent a “better form of intelligence”
“I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
Apple uses its Rapid Security Response feature, announced at WWDC 2022, to push a non-beta public update for the first time to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS users
Rapid Security Response updates haven't been released to the public until today. — When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16 …
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years
International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring …
Apple and Google submit an industry specification proposal to address unwanted location tracking by Bluetooth devices and ask for input from other companies
- Apple and Google said that they are working together to prevent lost item trackers like Apple's AirTag from being used to track people without their permission.
OnePlus Pad review: a bright screen, excellent build quality, and snappy performance, but limited built-in apps, subpar keyboard and stylus, and a mid-tier CPU
OnePlus' first tablet brings high-end features and specs to a midrange price point. It reminds me of the OnePlus we used to know.
Memo: Samsung bans employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company devices over concerns staff will leak sensitive data
Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT after discovering staff uploaded sensitive code …
Coinbase launches International Exchange, planning to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda, as the company tussles with US regulators
- Coinbase plans to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda through a new platform.
Pornhub disabled its website in Utah following a new age verification law for porn sites, instead showing a video asking users to talk to their representatives
People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law.
Letters: the US and EU warn Malaysia over national security and foreign investment risks if the government gives Huawei a role in the country's 5G network
Kuala Lumpur's review of tender tests ability to juggle relations with the west and China — The EU and US have warned Malaysia …
BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of “the world's most interesting people”, first to the UK, as the startup seeks to reverse slowing growth
Days after it started offering users the option to post more than once per day, BeReal is rolling out another new feature.
Why chatbots are not the future of interfaces for LLMs: the best prompts are not obvious, people will get sick of typing, responses are isolated, and more
Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I've talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable.
The current push for age restrictions on certain online content in the US echoes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which was struck down by SCOTUS in 1997
New York Times : Mastodon: @kashhill@mastodon.social . Tweets: @amarisllis and @kashhill Mastodon: @kashhill@mastodon.social : Lawmakers worried about the internet's effects on young brains have prop...
Online study company Chegg suspends full-year outlook, saying ChatGPT's rising popularity is pressuring subscriber growth; CHGG drops ~50% and is down ~64% YTD
What's the cost of students using ChatGPT for homework? For U.S. education services provider Chegg Inc (CHGG.N), it could be nearly $1 billion in market valuation.
CCDH: despite Google's promise to demonetize climate denial content in 2021, researchers find 100 YouTube videos with 18M+ views that feature ads for big brands
Google said in 2021 that it would stop running ads alongside videos and other content that denied the existence and causes of climate change.
Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists to detect or suppress content, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists; TikTok denies using the lists
A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube …
The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic Bank, which was a tad bigger than SVB and had $100B+ in outflows
now JPMorgan Chase's — uninsured depositors is Sen. Dianne Feinstein who, according to her latest financial disclosure, had between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 in a First Republic account. Last week, a ...
Sources: Microsoft plans to sell a ChatGPT version on a dedicated server in Q2, separating data from that of other customers and costing up to 10x more
Not everyone trusts OpenAI's ChatGPT. — While the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has proved popular with some businesses looking …
An Amnesty report details Israel's Red Wolf facial recognition system at Hebron and East Jerusalem checkpoints that tracks and restricts Palestinians' movements
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Sources detail Amazon's canceled plan to make Halo a success; the sophisticated AI-based fitness service was undone due to “significant headwinds” and low sales
A redesigned Halo service was due this fall with an AI-powered personal trainer, celebrity-led fitness classes, and even Apple Watch support. Tweets: @chriswelch and @chriswelch Tweets: Chris Welch / ...
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $8.82B, gross bookings up 19% YoY to $31.4B, $761M in adjusted EBITDA, up from $593M in Q1 2022, and a $157M loss
Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal :
A US federal judge declares a mistrial in Masimo's lawsuit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secret claims, after jurors failed to reach a consensus
Joe Schneider / Bloomberg :
Crypto advocates say recent written and unwritten polices by financial regulators are making it unfeasible or impossible for crypto firms to operate in the US
The industry sure thinks so — even as the White House denies it. — The crypto company was essentially reverse-engineered for Washington, D.C.'s stamp of approval.
A glitch on Twitter's desktop website has been randomly logging out some users and preventing some from logging back in, adding to the service's list of issues
and adding new features Matt Novak / Forbes : Twitter Users Randomly Getting Logged Out For No Reason Akash Sriram / Reuters : Twitter down for thousands of users - Downdetector Mastodon: Charles John...
Sources: Apple's high yield savings account offering a 4.15% annual return brought in nearly $400M in deposits on launch day and ~$990M over its first four days
Emily Mason / Forbes :
Automattic plans to drop its WordPress plugin JetPack's ability to automatically tweet blog posts, citing Twitter's dramatic change to its API terms and pricing
Matt Binder / Mashable :
Lagos-based payment service provider Nomba raised a $30M pre-Series B led by Base 10 Partners at a $150M+ valuation, per YC, after a $5M Series A in April 2019
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola review: great build quality with IP68 rating and useful PC integration options, but lackluster camera and finicky PC app streaming
Allison Johnson / The Verge :
Seattle-based compsci education nonprofit Code.org announces TeachAI, helping guide teaching on AI by convening leaders from Amazon, OpenAI, Microsoft, and more
Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI, a new effort aimed at guiding governments …
Microsoft partners with PayPal, Stripe, and GoDaddy to launch a payments system inside Teams that lets SMBs in the US and Canada collect money during meetings
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Music labels are citing copyright infringement to get streaming services to take down AI voice clone songs, an approach experts say is far from straightforward
Mia Sato / The Verge :
Amazon rolls out Fire TV Channels, its FAST video experience for Fire TV devices, after monthly hours streamed of FAST content grew 300%+ in the past six months
here's what you can watch Mollie Cahillane / Adweek : Prime Video Comes to Freevee While Fire TV Gets FAST at NewFronts Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News : Amazon announces free ad-supported F...
Sotheby's launches a curated, P2P secondary NFT marketplace, on-chain via the Ethereum and Polygon networks, and letting users pay in native tokens ETH or MATIC
Rosie Perper / CoinDesk :
Mastodon rolls out a new onboarding experience that defaults to the mastodon.social server, instead of requiring new users to pick from thousands of instances
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/ ... Melanie / @MistyMelanie@mastodon.social : Please DO NOT quote post me. — The feature isn't even here yet, but just the idea of it is causing me so much anxiety. Q...
Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from human subjects, a breakthrough in reading people's thoughts
mostly Paulo Montenegro / Ubergizmo : Mind-Reading Technology?! AI Helps To Translante fMRI Brain Scans Into Words Shelly Fan / Singularity Hub : This Brain Activity Decoder Translates Ideas Into Text...
Bolt co-founder Ryan Breslow launches Love.com, a marketplace with 600+ health supplements that raised $15M+; Breslow famously attacked Stripe's founders
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
Donald Trump amplified QAnon-promoting accounts nearly 500 times during his first year of posting on Truth Social, vs. 300+ times from 2017 to 2021 on Twitter
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