Reddark: over 100 subreddits have gone dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on API changes in an AMA on June 9, and thousands plan to follow
The version of Reddit we'll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark …
Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether
Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
In an AMA on Reddit's API changes, CEO Steve Huffman says the company can no longer “subsidize commercial entities”, criticizes the Apollo developer, and more
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Nigeria's SEC orders that Binance halt operations in the country, deeming them illegal as the local unit is “neither registered nor regulated by the Commission”
The order against Binance Nigeria Limited follows U.S. SEC allegations that the exchange had violated federal securities laws.
NHTSA data shows Tesla's FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents
Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported
Verizon report: the median loss from business email compromise in recent years is $50K and the median ransomware damage over the past two years doubled to $26K
A smorgasbord of data in Verizon's annual breach report — When a vulnerability in the ubiquitous open-source tool log4j …
Researchers claim their model can detect academic writing from ChatGPT with 99%+ accuracy at the document level and 92% accuracy at the paragraph level
Researchers say their algorithm can detect scientific writing by robots with surprising accuracy. — Scientists from the University …
A University of Vienna philosopher used ChatGPT to create a 40-minute church service, including the sermon, prayers, and music, led by four AI-generated avatars
The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul's church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord.
Germany's finance minister says there is no money in the country's budget to meet Intel's demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany
Christian Lindner's refusal to meet US chipmaker's financial demands causes split within government
In a test, researchers find that 90%+ of 1,008 jokes generated by GPT-3.5 were not new but rather the same 25 jokes likely learned during the model's training
A: He drank his coffee before it was cool. — So says an AI, anyway, in a paper that demonstrates just how much LLMs memorize: https://arxiv.org/... (note, it's not a serious paper in a research sen...
The Apple Vision Pro's biggest potential advantage will be developers being able to easily plug their iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS using familiar tools
Apple's developers already have the tools they need to create apps for the system. … It has dual 4K displays … Tweets: @drasticactions , @skarredghost , @fgraillot , @firt , and @drasticactions . Foru...
While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums
While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mastodon … . Tweets: @m...
A look at LUUM, a California eyelash studio using robots with computer vision to apply eyelash extensions and planning to sell its $60K robots to other studios
Is this technology a safe alternative for busy people who dream of semi-permanent wispy lashes?
LinkedIn, which launched a skills-matching feature in February 2023, says 45%+ of recruiters on the social network now search for candidates using skills data
As the world of work transforms, LinkedIn is betting that the way employers hire and the way people find jobs will also radically change in the years and decades ahead. Bluesky: @dogaker.bsky.social B...
A comparison between US data and 5,100 Stable Diffusion-generated images related to job title and crime finds the tool amplifies gender and racial stereotypes
of some some logical and objective thinking machine. — In reality generative AI, is just fancy autocomplete based on its training data. So it'll always reflect the biases of its underlying data and...
Microsoft adds voice mode to Bing Chat in Edge desktop, letting users verbally ask questions and hear answers in English, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin
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As major US banks abandon crypto companies during an expanding crackdown, a look at the emergence of smaller regional US lenders and Swiss, Asian, and UK firms
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An interview with Jinman Han, the head of Samsung's US chip business, on the pandemic chip shortage, geopolitics, Samsung's $17B fab in Taylor, Texas, and more
Katie Tarasov / CNBC : Tweets: @stshank and @sarthakgh Tweets: Stephen Shankland / @stshank : Samsung re. subsidies to build chipmaking fabs in the US: “The CHIPS Act is helping us to overcome the di...
A US bankruptcy judge rules that FTX can remove its customers' names from all its bankruptcy filings so that they don't fall victim to scams and identity theft
And if you're struggling to hold yourself accountable, go find others. — I'm part of multiple private Solopreneur groups that keep my effort and focus in check. … Tweets: Neeraj K. Agrawal / @neeraj...
An interview with Gary Gensler after the SEC sued Binance and Coinbase, a fight that has existential stakes for the companies and could define Gensler's legacy
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In a video at a Beijing conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for global cooperation on AI systems and said China should help shape the safety guidelines
https://www.bloomberg.com/... Tweets: Mike Bird / @birdyword : It's amazing to me when people spend a large amount of their time thinking about something, and the answer that comes back is “we need gl...
A look at Realtek's lawsuit accusing MediaTek of paying a company a “bounty” to file meritless US patent lawsuits to drive Realtek out of the TV chip market
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica : Forums: Ars OpenForum Forums: Ars OpenForum : Smart TV industry rocked by alleged patent conspiracy from chip maker
Sources: MoonPay gifted celebrities BAYC NFTs at the height of the crypto craze in late 2021; MoonPay says the NFTs weren't free and celebrities paid full price
The Block : Tweets: @rt_watson and @basedkarbon Tweets: RT Watson / @rt_watson : MoonPay gifted Hollywood celebs Bored Apes to promote itself: SOURCES ☑️ For more than a year, observers have speculat...
A Bluesky moderation policy change strains its relationship with Black users who expect a crackdown on bigotry even if it conflicts with its decentralized goals
Good shit as always @morgansung.bsky.social Hugo / @hugo.re : this seems like a basic issue: quite a marked tension between the community that has formed here, and the underlying principles and object...
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