Reddark: thousands of subreddits are going dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on API changes in an AMA on June 9
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 …
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he does not “feel an imperative” from users to release a major Xbox upgrade, preferring instead the “hardware we have”
Microsoft Corp.'s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn't “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console.
Microsoft plans to bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia GeForce Now in the coming months, letting users stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance
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a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI
America's largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry's future may be across the pond, and is opening …
South Korean prosecutors say an ex-Samsung executive allegedly stole blueprints and designs in 2018 and 2019 to replicate an entire chip plant in China
A former Samsung Electronics Co. executive allegedly stole blueprints and designs to try and replicate an entire semiconductor plant in China …
MacBook Air (15-inch) review: big screen, thin and light chassis, excellent trackpad, keyboard, performance, and battery, but limited ports and upgradability
Apple's first big-screened MacBook Air addresses a long-standing need in the company's laptop lineup. And it comes with zero surprises and no sticker shock.
Over 7,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest API changes, and Reddit experienced an outage for about an hour this morning
Reddit has been going through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site's new API pricing terms.
Meta launches MusicGen, an open-source AI model to generate short pieces of music using text prompts that can optionally be aligned to an existing melody
Meta's MusicGen can generate short new pieces of music based on text prompts, which can optionally be aligned to an existing melody.
A tech reporter on why he bought a 2023 World Book Encyclopedia printed set: nostalgia, permanence, and no AI or human tampering, link rot, or stealth edits
The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse. — These days, many of us live online …
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic agreed to open up their AI models to the UK government for research and safety purposes
LONDON — Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes …
Sources: a US official said the government plans to let chipmakers in South Korea and Taiwan maintain and expand their China-based facilities without reprisals
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Robinhood reports crypto trading volumes fell 68% YoY to $2.1B in May 2023, daily average trading revenue down 53% YoY, and MAUs fell 28% YoY to 10.6M
The trading platform recently delisted three tokens that were classified as securities in the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase and Binance.
Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK's Online Safety Bill, and more
The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power … LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru . Tweets: @grettalouw , @colincrowel...
Documents detail new prison-monitoring tech, tracking inmates' location, heartbeats, and more, developed by Talitrix and used in Atlanta's Fulton County Jail
Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates' location, heartbeats, and more. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @svaroschi Mastodon: Matt...
Salesforce renames its AI tools portfolio to AI Cloud, plans to roll out AI features in summer, and doubles its generative AI fund, announced in March, to $500M
Salesforce Inc. is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment …
Trying to shape AI tech to protect jobs is a bad idea since no one can predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor
Instead, we should empower workers and create mechanisms for redistribution. — I've been to a number of meetings and panels recently … Tweets: @jackstilgoe , @emmabgo , and @psythor Tweets: Jack Sti...
Researchers of tech change and employment disagree on how many jobs AI will affect; one tricky factor is primarily tasks, not occupations, are being automated
Sarah Kessler / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @nytimesbusiness , @clevy_law , @stevelohr , @evankirstel , and @mrsethharris Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : If cost of the tools weren't a fac...
India investigates reports of a breach at a portal with the data of 1B+ COVID-19 vaccine recipients; Telegram removes a bot letting users pull individuals' data
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Nasdaq plans to acquire financial software maker Adenza for $10.5B in cash and stock, giving Adenza owner Thoma Bravo a 14.9% stake in Nasdaq and a board seat
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Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft haven't rolled out their AI chatbots in Hong Kong, adding to a slow creep of tech companies treating the city like mainland China
Visiting Scholar, Global Digital Policy Incubator Bloomberg : HK Court Plans Hearing on Interim Ban of Protest Song in July Tweets: Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : Bit by bit, American tech giants are s...
HSBC rebrands SVB UK as HSBC Innovation Banking, adding US, Israel, and Hong Kong teams to offer banking services to startups, investors, and other tech clients
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A writer who learned to code after losing his job reflects on AI chatbots, which repackage ideas and lack lateral thinking, and why humans are irreplaceable
Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable. I've learned that's nonsense Tweets: @neilturkewitz , @sarahbadr , @tristandross , @jjvincent , and @david_r...
As US-China geopolitical tensions rise, foreign investors sell stock in Bilibili, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech companies and reduce startup funding
Financial Times : Tweets: @martijnrasser , @hiddenvaluegems , @nglinsman , and @jnordvig Tweets: Martijn Rasser / @martijnrasser : “China is getting cancelled and the economy is a dumpster fire,” sai...
How science fiction and fantasy publishers are dealing with AI tools' role in the industry and with the trust crisis due to AI-generated content becoming common
whatever you do, please avoid using AI. It's rooted in the exploitation of cultural workers. Friends don't let friends use Midjourney, StabilityAI or other generative AI models. @dreamosaurus @BookSpo...
Sources: the Dutch government is working on legislation to bar Chinese students from university programs covering sensitive tech, including chips and defense
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An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson's 1992 coinage of “metaverse”
Mark Zuckerberg's grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly. https://twitter.com/... Forums: Hacker News : Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on...
A look at LUUM, a California eyelash studio using robots with computer vision to apply eyelash extensions, which plans to sell its $60K robots to other studios
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
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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