The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault
Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.
Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as it's no longer under active development
Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development …
EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023
Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said.
X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private”
X's recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users' job …
Foxconn founder Terry Gou resigns as a company board member due to “personal reasons”, less than a week after announcing a bid to be Taiwan's next president
Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW), resigned as a company board member …
A look at iPhone's upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources: Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro coming next year will have an aluminum top case
Also: The company confirms the date of its Sept. 12 iPhone 15 event and aims to overhaul device production with 3D printers.
LG and Samsung say their smart home apps will work with the other company's appliances and TVs in 2024, as part of the Home Connectivity Alliance formed in 2021
The smart home is all about interoperability these days. First came Matter, making Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung play nice …
As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers' professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups
Group chats and messaging apps killed it … Tati Bruening, a 22-year-old content creator and photographer, just wants to share memes and post about cooking green beans.
Instacart's IPO filing suggests its Snowflake cloud spending will fall 71% YoY in 2023, sparking an online spat between staff of rivals Snowflake and Databricks
- Instacart's long-awaited IPO prospectus last week turned controversial in a way the grocery-delivery company wasn't anticipating.
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators
#Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of #Facebook and #Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators. — https://www.nytimes.com/... #privacy Blu...
Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format
Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform's longer-form videos Threads: @dhowell . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @neilcybart See also Mediagazer Threads: Deni...
Filing: Walmart spent $3.5B in H1 2023 to fix PhonePe shareholder liabilities and buy Flipkart shares from Tiger Global and others, growing its stake to ~80%
Walmart has spent $3.5 billion this year to acquire shares from certain Flipkart stakeholders and resolve liabilities …
Sources: Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Intel, Samsung, AMD, Synopsys, and others plan to invest between $25M and $100M each in Arm's IPO; Amazon decided against
Customers of Arm Holdings Ltd including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc …
Filing: Globalstar signed a $64M deal with SpaceX to launch satellites for Apple's Emergency SOS iPhone feature in 2025
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Sources: Arm looks to target its IPO at a $50B to $55B valuation, well below the $64B valuation implied by SoftBank's acquisition of a 25% Arm stake in August
Wall Street Journal :
A Media Matters for America report on PragerU Kids: Meta isn't consistently enforcing transparency rules for ads around “social issues, elections, or politics”
language that would easily fall into the category of “social, political, or elections” issues, a special category of ad that @Meta tracks @mmfa : Meta is allowing PragerU Kids — which misleadingly pro...
Emails: some UK Home Office officials lobbied the ICO to act “favorably” towards Facewatch, which is rolling out facial recognition tech across the country
Officials reflected policing minister's enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings X: @allytibbitt , @silkiecarlo , @hare_brain , and @daviddav...
Child advocacy group Heat Initiative is starting a $2M US ad campaign calling on Apple to detect, report, and remove child sexual abuse materials from iCloud
https://www.wired.com/... Rhys Morgan / @rhysmorgan@mastodon.social : @lapcatsoftware So clear that office politics played a part in this. Just baffling they ever announced it. Erik Jonker / @ErikJon...
Canada tries to address Big Tech's Bill C-18 concerns, saying Google and Meta would pay publishers ~$126.6M and ~$44M per year; Meta plans to keep blocking news
A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China's approval, and how they deal with sensitive content
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DappRadar: monthly NFT trading volume fell 81% from January 2022 to July 2023, while monthly NFT sales have dropped 61%, as traders return to cryptocurrencies
Nonfungible tokens, along with the rest of crypto, had a painful comeuppance last year … Linda Ang : There're only 2 questions worth asking IMO: — 1. Whoever decided NFTs were but a speculative asse...
Interviews with AI red team heads at Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and Meta on why breaking AI models matters for safety, the challenges of fixing them, and more
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : X: @forbes , @rashishrivast18 , @evijitghosh , @forbes , @rashishrivast18 , and @rashishrivast18 . LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava X: @forbes : Forbes spoke to the leaders of...
Sources: cloud data management startup Rubrik, valued at ~$4B in 2021, is planning an IPO in 2023, raising $500M to $700M; PitchBook: Rubrik has raised $1B+
Bloomberg :
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