With Twitter traffic “tanking” and Threads ascendant, Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg “is a cuck” and proposes “a literal dick-measuring contest”
Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk's network
Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each …
Instagram Threads passes 100M signups in just five days, up from 30M in the first 24 hours and 10M in the first seven hours
Instagram's text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million sign-ups in just five days. The Twitter rival was launched on June 6 (or June 5 in the Americas), according to a tracker.
OpenAI releases in-house ChatGPT plug-in Code Interpreter to all Plus subscribers, helping them analyze data, create charts, edit files, and more
OpenAI first announced third-party software application plug-ins for its hit service ChatGPT back in March, allowing users to extend …
Foxconn pulls out of a $19.5B Indian chip and display joint venture, announced in 2022, with conglomerate Vedanta and is “working to remove the Foxconn name”
Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Monday it is pulling out of a joint venture with metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta Ltd …
Sources: Revolut's US system let criminals steal $20M+ over several months in 2022 before Revolut shut the loophole, equivalent to ~66% of its 2021 net profit
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Civil rights groups and academics say the recent US ruling limiting government tech company contacts could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives
Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’LinkedIn:Patrick Warren.
Evernote lays off most of its remaining US and Chile staff, and plans to relocate nearly all its operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2023
Google and Apple have a limited corporate presence in the country, and Meta manages everything from Argentina, never setting foot in Chile. But Evernote made a bet for Chilean tech talent. … Mastodon...
The EU and the US agree to a new deal on data transfers after EU judges threw out two previous pacts over privacy concerns; Meta had threatened to leave the EU
The European Union and the US sealed a new deal on data transfers after EU judges threw out two previous pacts partly over fears …
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources say testing began in April 2023 with the Mayo Clinic and others
Breaking: Foxconn walks away from a $19.5B joint venture with conglomerate Vedanta to produce semiconductors. Steve Dent / Engadget : Google is testing its medical AI chatbot at the Mayo Clinic Usama ...
VR game makers say women are buying headsets due to fitness and workout apps, a shift from the male-dominated early days; <10% of Quest users were women in 2019
Seeking to broaden their customer base, makers of virtual reality headsets move away from gaming and into new types of apps
How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news
Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales
ESA survey in 2022: Hispanic and Black Americans played video games more than other groups, 72% of US gamers were white, active players fell to 212.6M, and more
Hispanic and Black Americans play video games more than other groups, according to an annual industry report …
Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan set up an office in Singapore and may compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV Partners for Southeast Asia investments
TSMC reports Q2 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$15.3B, beating estimates of ~$15.23B due to AI chips; TSM has risen 25%+ in 2023 despite full-year revenue warnings
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported better-than-expected sales on a boom in artificial intelligence applications demanding …
Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume passes through Meta's apps; ~£485M was stolen in 2022
AI rules proposed by Chuck Schumer for the US and by the EU may shut more creative and innovative startups out of the market and harm AI tool development
It appears the race is on to see whether it will be the EU or the US in promulgating worse regulations around generative AI tools. Twitter: @rsi , @katharinakoern1 , and @adamthierer Twitter: @rsi : “...
Twitch plans to launch ephemeral Stories in October 2023 and a Discovery Feed featuring a personalized mix of streamers' clips this fall, both in its mobile app
A profile of Debbie Bestwick, the video games industry's longest-serving female CEO, ahead of her year-end departure from UK studio Team17, which released Worms
The outgoing Team17 chief executive on her battles in a sector known for its sexist attitudes — and the role …
Twitter reinstates the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access, letting some third-party apps work again
Snap's new revenue-sharing incentive, the Snap Star creator program, shows early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse its declining revenue
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How a TikTok-like algorithm and pay-to-play scheme ruined Twitter's complex but functional community, causing the social network to suddenly lose its vitality
Alibaba's Youku airs My Chinese Chip, a new drama series in China telling the story of a startup building lasers for deep ultraviolet lithography machines
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Some US schools are piloting campus surveillance robots that detect aggressive behavior in people, alert security, and more, amid growing gun violence concerns
A comparison of what personal data Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social collect from users, based on their listings in Apple's App Store
Here's what personal data is collected by Meta's Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.More:MakeUseOf,Techlusive,The i Paper,BetaNews,International Business Times,R...
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