Staff memo: Reddit's CEO says “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass”, new moderation tools are vital, wearing Reddit gear in public is risky, and more
Programming note: Barring big news, Platformer will be off Thursday as I take a personal day. Matt Binder / Mashable : Reddit Blackout: CEO downplays protest. Subreddits vow to keep fighting. Emre Çit...
The European Commission issues a preliminary antitrust complaint against Google over its ad business, suggesting breaking up the unit; Google can now reply
The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that …
The European Parliament passes the AI Act, which would curtail facial recognition, mandate data disclosures, and more; a final version should pass later in 2023
A draft law in the European Parliament has become the world's most far-reaching attempt to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
Over 300 subreddits, including r/aww, r/music, and r/videos, plan to extend their protests indefinitely; 8,400+ have now gone private or into a restricted mode
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Amazon VP of EC2 Dave Brown says AWS is considering using AMD's new MI300 chips and declined to use Nvidia's DGX Cloud chips; Oracle is Nvidia's first partner
Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), the world's largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips …
As over 8,000 subreddits go dark, Google's results, which often improve when adding “reddit” to the search, have suffered
Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit's upcoming API changes, and it's shown me just how much I rely on Reddit to find useful, human-sounding information in my Google search results.
Margrethe Vestager says discrimination, not extinction, is a more pressing concern for AI due to training models and “guardrails” are needed to counter bias
Discrimination is a more pressing concern from advancing artificial intelligence than human extinction, says the EU's competition chief.
A US federal judge asks the SEC and Binance to strike a compromise over the Binance.US asset freeze, while criticizing the SEC's use of its enforcement powers
A judge urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to reach a compromise with Binance that would allow the world's largest …
A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023
A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now.
OpenAI releases new GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 versions that include a new “function calling” feature, and reduces the pricing of the original GPT-3.5-turbo by 25%
As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing.
Vodafone and Three agree to merge, forming the UK's largest mobile network, pending months of regulatory review, and take on £6B in debt; Vodafone would own 51%
Vodafone Group Plc and CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. agreed to combine their UK mobile businesses in a deal that will create …
Reuters' 2023 Digital News Report: despite social media fragmentation, users' dependence on platforms for news keeps growing; Facebook drops and TikTok grows
This year's report comes against the backdrop of a global cost-of-living crisis, a continuing war in the heart of Europe, and further climate instability across the world.
After Apple threatened an App Store delisting, Nostr-based social media app Damus says Apple requires removing bitcoin tipping on posts but not on user profiles
Damus creator William Casarin told his followers on the app that Apple would allow zaps, just with a slight tweak
Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group plans to close multiple studios, cancel games, and cut staff, after a $2B deal unexpectedly fell through
Embracer Group has close to 17,000 employees over more than 100 studios, many of which were acquired over the past few years
Q&A with Satya Nadella on his generative AI “eureka moment”, OpenAI, helping anyone with a phone become a developer, pausing AI work, Bing's relevancy, and more
The CEO can't imagine life without artificial intelligence—even if it's the last thing invented by humankind.
A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, a mysterious associate of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao who appears repeatedly in the SEC's lawsuit against the exchange
CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao's mysterious associate Guangying Chen emerges as a key player in his company's operations …
Researchers steal encryption keys stored in smart cards and smartphones by video recording the devices' power LEDs, with some significant real-world limitations
Key-leaking side channels are a fact of life. Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs.
IBM details using its 127-qubit quantum processor to simulate the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets, known as the Ising model, in less than a millisecond
A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer.
AMD unveils its EPYC Bergamo CPUs, offering up to 128 Zen 4C cores for cloud-native servers and data center platforms
Sources: Arm discusses participating in its IPO with 10+ clients, including Intel, Apple, Alphabet, TSMC, and Samsung; any decision won't come until August
June 12 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) Arm is in talks with some of its biggest customers and end users about bringing …
Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI content; experts are split on whether §230 applies
Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI …
Q&A with Phil Spencer on AI in games, using Xbox player data and ML, Game Pass lessons, “living games”, games built within Minecraft, looking to 2024, and more
Phil Spencer talks with Polygon about the future of living games, Xbox's huge 2024, AI, and more
Q&A with Apollo developer Christian Selig on Reddit's API pricing changes, the company refusing to negotiate, why he can't simply charge users more, and more
The Irish DPC says Google must delay Bard's EU launch because the company has given insufficient info about how the AI tool would respect EU data privacy rules
The Irish privacy watchdog said the tech giant has given insufficient information about how it will respect the EU's data privacy rules.
Amazon Fire Max 11 review: cheap, nice screen, and decent stylus, but anemic app store, very limited multitasking, cramped aspect ratio, and bad trackpad
The Fire Max 11 has the most advanced and refined hardware of any Amazon tablet yet. But it is held back by the same old problems.
Spotify shifts its podcast strategy from being a sort of HBO by releasing exclusive shows to providing tools for podcast creators, similar to YouTube's model
Over the past four years, Spotify Technology SA has announced a succession of splashy deals showing off how much money it's willing … Tweets: @ashleyrcarman Tweets: Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman : ne...
AMD previews its Instinct MI300 accelerator family, including the MI300X, a high-performance GPU with 192GB of HBM3 memory aimed squarely at the LLM market
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Study: US cyber insurance premiums surged 50% in 2022, due to ransomware attacks and online commerce, as policy holders claimed $7.2B, up 3x in three years
US cyber insurance premiums surged 50% in 2022 as increased ransomware attacks and online commerce drove demand for coverage.
Cloud data management company Informatica acquires London-based data access controls startup Privitar, which has raised $150M+ and was valued at $400M+ in 2020
One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we're getting another dose of it in the area of enterprise data management.
Paris-based Mistral AI raised a €105M seed led by Lightspeed, sources say at a €240M valuation, to rival OpenAI and plans to release its first AI models in 2024
Google rolls out its June 2023 Pixel update, adding new safety features, a hands-free photo capture gesture, Pixel Watch oxygen saturation monitoring, and more
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Versions of the Glory to Hong Kong protest anthem are missing on iTunes, Spotify, and Instagram Reels in Hong Kong, after the government sought an injunction
Jessie Pang / Reuters :
Peak XV head Shailendra Singh says the Sequoia split lets the India and Southeast Asia-focused firm pursue US deals in sectors like AI while avoiding conflicts
Split with American parent eliminates potential conflicts in hot sectors like AI — Managing Director Shailendra Singh …
Meta details I-JEPA, a computer vision model that uses common sense world knowledge to create more accurate images, avoiding errors like hands with extra digits
I-JEPA is a method for self-supervised learning. At a high level … Meta AI : Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture Tweets: Rishi / @maharshiguin : This m...
Amazon resolved a nearly four-hour AWS outage in the US-EAST-1 region, causing increased error rates and latencies for multiple services, like fast food apps
what we know Anissa Gardizy / The Information : AWS Outage Appeared to Affect Delta, McDonald's and Others Wade Tyler Millward / CRN : AWS Outage Downs Other Websites, Apps Michaela Althouse / Technic...
Filing: the SEC anticipates taking 120 days to potentially respond to Coinbase's request for rulemaking on digital asset trading; Coinbase asked for seven days
The Block :
NYC-based Medivis, whose SurgicalAR tool lets radiologists and surgeons holographically render MRI and CT images, raised a $20M Series A led by Thrive Capital
Startups are designing augmented-reality systems to give doctors 'X-ray vision … FinSMEs : Medivis Raises $20M in Series A Funding Tweets: @startupreport : Radiologist-founded augmented reality startu...
A look at Japanese ride-hailing app Go, which controls ~75% of the local market, as some taxi operators say founder Ichiro Kawanabe pushed them to avoid Uber
Challenge in Japan shows how local operators can derail ride-hailing app's overseas ambitions — TOKYO—Uber has been outmaneuvered …
Samsung plans to let non-factory, full-time chip staff in South Korea take one Friday off per month, after local rival SK Hynix adopted a similar policy in 2022
Bloomberg :
Comprehensive.io: average salaries for senior engineers who specialize in AI and ML are 12% higher than for those who do not; AI-related salaries are up 4% YoY
That doesn't mean tech sn't a maturing sector, and that the halcyon days of $600k packages to 20-somethings aren't over, because they mostly are. … Tweets: Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : AI related sa...
Analysis: the EU funds Huawei to run 11 projects, from AI to 6G and cloud computing, despite several EU nations banning the company from their telecom networks
Financial Times :
Tel Aviv-based Kodem, which uses runtime intelligence to find and mitigate application security risks, emerges from stealth with a $7M seed and an $18M Series A
Today we are excited to introduce Kodem to the world. Our mission is to make AppSec simple. Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Application security startup Kodem emerges from stealth with $25M LinkedIn: Cha...
Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell resigns “to pursue another opportunity” effective immediately, with board member Guy Gecht appointed as the company's interim CEO
Some US doctors are using ChatGPT to communicate more empathetically with patients, including when breaking bad news and explaining medical recommendations
Gina Kolata / New York Times : Tweets: @davidgratzer , @_eric_reinhart , @josourcing , and @sarahdigregorio Tweets: David Gratzer / @davidgratzer : “Most surprising to Dr. Lee, though, was a use he h...
Source: Cloudera CEO Rob Bearden told employees that he is stepping down, two years after KKR and CD&R acquired the data management software company for ~$5.3B
Anissa Gardizy / The Information :
As Microsoft aims to be carbon negative by 2030, a review finds 14 out of 27 of the company's top production suppliers have increased their emissions since 2020
The Verge : Tweets: @tomwarren Tweets: Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Microsoft's dirty supply chain is holding back its climate ambitions. The Verge reviewed dozens of emissions reports from Microsoft's ...
Stack Overflow survey of ~90K developers in 185 countries: 70% use or plan to use AI coding tools in 2023; only 3% “highly trust” and 39% “somewhat trust” them
James Vincent / The Verge :
Databricks reports annual revenue up 60%+ to $1B in its fiscal year to January 2023 and plans to acquire Rubicon, an AI storage system startup in stealth mode
Bloomberg :
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.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.