What to expect at WWDC: an MR headset that a source calls part “status symbol” and part “future of the computer”, a 15" MacBook Air, iOS 17, macOS 14, and more
Apple Inc.'s most significant product launch event in nearly a decade kicks off Monday …
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections”
In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud …
Rapid7 and Mandiant: hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Progress' MOVEit Transfer file transfer tool to steal data from organizations
Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software, tracked as CVE-2023-34362, to steal data from organizations.
Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week
A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost a second senior executive …
The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps
New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog …
ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality
Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.
Microsoft plans to drop Cortana support on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in late 2023, touting the company's AI efforts as suitable replacements for the assistant
Microsoft will no longer support the Cortana app starting this fall. — What you need to know
Sources: Zume, which used robots to automate pizza making, shuts down and is undergoing liquidation; the startup had raised $445M, including $375M from SoftBank
Zume, which raised $375 million from SoftBank to automate pizza-making with robots before switching to developing sustainable packaging, has shut down.
In an interim ruling, a Kenyan court orders the suspension of the mass sacking of 184 content moderators by Meta contractor Sama; Meta plans to appeal
Scientists and DNA sequencing startup Illumina identified 4.3M genetic variants in ~800 primates and then used AI to predict genetic health risks in 454K humans
Scientists apply deep learning to expanded DNA database to help identify disease-causing mutations in humans
Twitter VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company; Irwin joined in June 2022 and took over as head of T&S when Yoel Roth resigned
maybe the Matt Walsh movie? — but she oversaw some egregious violations of trust and safety. John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton.bsky.social : Ella Irwin stayed around at Twitter. — She consolidated pow...
Meta updates its policy to require employees assigned to an office to start coming in three days per week starting on September 5; remote workers are exempt
Ginger Adams Otis / Wall Street Journal :
Vimeo plans to end support for its Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, and Roku apps on June 27, 2023, saying casting will give users a “better ongoing experience”
Todd Spangler / Variety :
A profile of Nvidia: how Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky started the company at Denny's, bet early on what Huang calls “$0B markets”, and more
#AI made NVIDIA the world's most valuable chip maker. … Lauren Coltrane : Only seven American companies have ever been worth a trillion dollars. Some came from garages. Others were started in colleg...
Sources: telecom ministers from 18 EU countries either rejected or criticized a push by European telcos to force Big Tech to help fund 5G and broadband rollouts
A majority of EU countries have rejected a push by Europe's big telecoms operators to force Big Tech to help fund the rollout …
A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs
A Kenyan court has ruled that Meta is the primary employer of content moderators suing the social media giant and its content review partner …
A look at India's hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services
David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker :
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T for wholesale prices to offer low-cost or free mobile service to US Prime subscribers
here's what we know [Update] Kishalaya Kundu / XDA Developers : Amazon may provide free cellular service to Prime members Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Amazon to Offer Free Mobile Service to...
With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple's MR headset could lure back VCs
Frenzy over iPhone maker's longed-for launch of mixed reality headset has reached ‘fever pitch’ Tweets: @patrickmcgee_ Tweets: Patrick McGee / @patrickmcgee_ : AR/VR start-ups have for years been show...
Harvard's popular CS50 MOOC plans to use AI to grade assignments, teach coding, and personalize learning tips, and is testing a virtual TA for student feedback
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : LinkedIn: David J. Malan . Tweets: @apartovi LinkedIn: David J. Malan : “CS50, an introductory course in computer science attended by hundreds of students on-campus and over...
Microsoft expects to take a charge of ~$425M in Q2 2023 for a potential fine from the Irish DPC over LinkedIn's targeted ads allegedly violating users' privacy
And once again, big business balances fines with profits and writes it off as the cost of doing business? — @Techmeme
Malaysia plans to let carriers decide whether to work with Huawei and other Chinese companies for its second 5G network, but will consider EU and US concerns
Anisah Shukry / Bloomberg :
Artifact, the news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, plans to use a GPT-4 model to rewrite article headlines marked as clickbait by many users
here's why Kyle Barr / Gizmodo : Artifact's AI Will Rewrite Clickbaity Headlines, Though Don't You Dare Rework Mine Bluesky: Adnan / @adnan.social : Ooh. I love this. I think I am a fan of algorithm...
Getty asks London's High Court to stop UK sales of Stable Diffusion, accusing Stability AI of copyright infringement for training its AI model on Getty's images
Sam Tobin / Reuters : Tweets: @mytechmusings Tweets: Prakash Sangam / @mytechmusings : IMO this is only the beginning. #datasovereignty & who has control over data uses for #Ai training will be a maj...
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