Roblox unveils Roblox Assistant, a conversational AI assistant that lets creators enter prompts to generate virtual environments, get help with coding, and more
Roblox announced a new conversational AI assistant at its 2023 Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) that can help creators …
A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies' moderation on COVID-19 posts
The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General's office's contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms' content decisions
Google says North Korea-backed hackers are targeting security researchers with an exploit using a currently unfixed zero-day flaw in a popular software package
Google researchers say currently unfixed vulnerability affects a popular software package. — North Korea-backed hackers …
Roblox plans to launch on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in October and on Meta Quest headsets later in September, but has no “imminent plans” for Switch
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Roblox announces Roblox Connect, letting users video chat with other people as their Roblox avatar in a shared virtual space, available later in 2023
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An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software
- Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple no longer plans to launch MacBooks with an M3 chip “before the end of this year”; other reports point to M3 Macs as soon as October 2023
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Source: @mingchikuo .
X sues California over AB 587, arguing the law forcing social networks to detail their moderation interferes with X's constitutionally protected editorial calls
Elon Musk's X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.
Roblox plans to let creators that sell assets and tools on its Creator Marketplace keep all of the revenue minus taxes and payment processing fees, from 2024
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Amazon starts requiring writers in its e-book program to disclose using AI-generated content in their books, after complaints from the Authors Guild and others
After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through …
How privacy campaigners and tech executives, like Signal president Meredith Whittaker, teamed up to challenge the UK's Online Safety Bill encryption crackdown
LONDON — Deep in the recesses of Britain's Hogwarts-like houses of parliament, a Facebook lobbyist-turned-lord is trying to foment a rebellion.
Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame pleads guilty to US campaign finance and money transmitting charges and will forfeit $1.5B+ as part of the deal
The 10-page federal indictment against Ryan Salame just dropped. Salame pleads guilty to two charges: 1. Conspiracy to Make Unlawful Political Contributions and Defraud the FEC 2. Conspiracy to Operat...
Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits
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Roblox plans to release coding tools for developers to create subscription-based services for in-platform games and experiences; Roblox will take a 30% cut
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : X: @stephentotilo X: Stephen Totilo / @stephentotilo : NEWS - Roblox is coming to PlayStation 4 and 5 later this year. It's been a de facto Xbox console exclusive for some ti...
The IRS starts using AI to investigate complex cases of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar partnerships like hedge funds, private equity groups, and law firms
And To Harness AI Brett Rowland / The Sanford Herald : IRS to target 1,600 millionaires in crackdown, use AI to catch wealthy tax cheats Nikki Main / Gizmodo : The IRS Is Using AI to Target the Ultra-...
Reddit now offers translations of posts in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and Swedish, in its apps or on the web while logged out
Reddit can now translate posts into eight different languages when viewing them on Reddit's iOS or Android apps or on the web while logged out …
Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group's Pegasus spyware
Similarweb: ChatGPT's worldwide desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following ~10% drops from each of the previous two months
students are a large segment of usage Vishvanand Subramanian / @vishvanands : News outlets have moved on from Threads “unraveling” and now claim that ChatGPT is dying.. As always, citing SimilarWeb, t...
Code in Uber's iOS app suggests that the company is working on a TaskRabbit-like service, codenamed Chore, that lets users hire people to conduct various tasks
- Uber is looking for new ways to grow beyond rides, deliveries — Uber Technologies Inc. is working on a TaskRabbit-like service …
How some doctors are using VR to help patients manage pain and to practice by simulating procedures, as medical schools insert the tech into their curriculums
- Surgeons are using Meta's Quest 2 to simulate procedures, allowing doctors to practice from home.
X is showing some ads in users' Following feeds without an “Ad” label, indicated only by clicking on the three-dot menu, which could attract the FTC's attention
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A profile of Maltese politician Alex Agius Saliba, who led the EU's legislation to make USB-C the standard, forcing Apple to replace the iPhone's Lightning port
Apple's new iPhone is expected to include a big change. Why? Ask someone from the EU's smallest country.
The Delhi High Court approves an injunction for preemptive blocks of pirate websites that covers “future content”, as requested by Netflix, Disney, and others
The Delhi High Court in India has approved a new type of pirate site-blocking order, requested by Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros, and other Hollywood studios.
Sources: Apple spent $5M on the film rights for Michael Lewis' book about Sam Bankman-Fried; at least eight Hollywood projects on SBF are in the works so far
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The US and the UK sanction 11 more alleged Trickbot ransomware gang members, and the US DOJ unseals indictments against nine alleged Trickbot and Conti members
Reliance's Jio Platforms and Nvidia partner to build an LLM trained on India's languages and AI cloud infrastructure that outperforms India's top supercomputer
Ant Group unveils a financial LLM for wealth management and insurance services, powering two tools: Zhixiaobao, for consumers, and Zhixiaozhu, for professionals
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