Leaked PS5 Pro docs mention rendering 45% faster than the PS5, 2x to 3x the ray tracing performance, and more; sources say it's set for a holiday 2024 release
Insider Gaming can confirm that the leaked PS5 Pro specs leaked earlier today are real and the PlayStation 5 is still tentatively targeting a 2024 holiday release.
The TikTok divestment bill's progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor
Legislation to force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the app or have it banned in the United States sailed through the House, but the Senate has no plans to move hastily.
Filing: prosecutors ask a judge to sentence SBF to up to 50 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 28; SBF's lawyers had suggested five to six years
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Microsoft is again injecting pop-ups into Chrome on Windows in a bid to get users to switch to Bing, after previously pausing them citing “unintended behavior”
Microsoft is once again injecting pop-ups into Google's Chrome browser in a bid to get people to switch to Bing.
Lawyers warn that the bill to ban TikTok unless it's sold gives POTUS unchecked power to ban any app or website the President deems a “national security threat”
Game developer Scopely says Monopoly Go! crossed $2B in revenue in February 2024, just 10 months after launching and three months after hitting $1B in revenue
Scopely announced that Monopoly Go has generated $2 billion in revenue just 10 months after launch and three months after hitting $1 billion.
Reddit says FTC launched an inquiry into Reddit's licensing of user data to AI companies; an ex-FTC official says other companies also got such “hold letters”
- It also suggests that the FTC is expanding its look into AI-related deals, which previously appeared to be focused on equity investments.
Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2
LLMs are trained to block harmful responses. Old-school images can override those rules. — Researchers have discovered …
Banning TikTok is a performative, unconstitutional, authoritarian move that won't stop China from spreading propaganda or getting Americans' data
Walmart starts selling Macs directly for the first time, partnering with Apple to sell the M1 MacBook Air for $699 a week after Apple stopped selling the laptop
lowest price yet! Briley Kenney / Digital Trends : MacBook Air M1 just hit its lowest ever price — Get it for $650 Simranpal Singh / Gizmochina : Hot Deal: MacBook Air M1 goes on sale for $699 Geoff W...
Twitch plans to remove Prime Video Watch Party from April 2, 2024; Watch Party launched in 2020, allowing streamers to broadcast Prime Video content to viewers
Apparently people aren't too nostalgic for the days of hiding inside. — If you're one of the — apparently few …
How evangelicals proselytize using Bless Every Home, an app that lets users create neighborhood maps and data tables based on people's religion and ethnicity
The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed … Mastodon: @hakona@im.alstadheim.no and @wdlindsy@toad.social X: @ellehardy , @jennwre...
Some Democrats warn that a ban of TikTok, used by nearly two-thirds of Americans under 30, could imperil Biden's reelection by depressing young voter turnout
but their treatment of him is vastly different Nate Cohn / New York Times : Share of Democratic Registrations Is Declining, but What Does It Mean? Kathleen Parker / Washington Post : For the country's...
Filing: SBF wrote a Google doc in which he floated “bad ideas” to improve his image, including going on Tucker Carlson and coming out “against the woke agenda”
SBF's brainstorming notes included lines like “Come out against the woke agenda.” — Are you a billionaire in trouble?
Two of the UK's biggest supermarket chains, Tesco and Sainsbury's, were hit with technical issues on Saturday; Sainsbury's blames a software update
Two of the UK's biggest supermarket chains - Tesco and Sainsbury's - were hit with technical issues on Saturday.
Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16: sets the bar for foldables with a large 4:3 display and seamless centerfold, but the trackpad is prone to missed inputs
Its beautiful 16-inch OLED display morphs into a 12-inch laptop, but do splurge for the ‘optional’ keyboard and folio.
Uber and Lyft threaten to leave Minneapolis on May 1, after the city passed an ordinance to guarantee drivers a minimum rate of $1.40/mile and $0.5/minute
There will be other ways and maybe it'll give Minneapolis a chance to revitalize their Metro bus and public train system who knows maybe cabs will make a return [embedded post] Durrell / @durrell.bsky...
Self-driving startup Waabi unveils Copilot4D, a generative AI model trained on lidar data to predict traffic flow around a vehicle 5-10 seconds into the future
Self-driving company Waabi is using a generative AI model to help predict the movement of vehicles, it announced today. The new system, called Copilot4D, was trained on troves of data from lidar sens...
Sources: SpaceX's Starshield is building a network of spy satellites under a classified, $1.8B contract with the US spy agency National Reconnaissance Office
SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency … X: @new_narrative , @davethomas5150 , @joroulette , and @misscherryjones X: Mik...
Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000+ employees
During 2023, growth and late-stage startups chose to defer fundraising, and investors took their foot off the gas pedal owing …
Starbucks is ending Odyssey, which launched in December 2022 in closed beta offering NFT-based rewards minted on the Polygon blockchain, on March 31, 2024
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SCOTUS rules that public officials may block people on social media in certain circumstances, tossing aside challenges against Michigan and California officials
but only sometimes, SCOTUS rules Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Supreme Court defines when it's illegal for public officials to block social media critics Chris Teale / Route Fifty : Supreme Court clarif...
Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal
Somehow marketplace owners are not allowed to disclose who is threatening to pull the plug behind their negotiations. — It is not like they are threaten by a 3-letter national agency and secret cour...
Michael Seibel steps down as YC's managing director, says he did not feel disappointed when he was not tapped as CEO but would have accepted the job if offered
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After criticism, India's Ministry of Electronics and IT revises its AI advisory to drop plans to require government approval before new AI models are launched
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Sources: HashiCorp, which helps companies manage their cloud infrastructure, has been considering options including a sale; HCP jumps 11%+ after hours
Bloomberg :
Sources: BeReal is weighing raising a Series C or being acquired, as what is left of its $90M in funding is set to run out this year and DAUs stagnate at 25M
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Sources: Social Capital fired two of its partners after they tried to raise ~$2M from outside the firm for AI chipmaker Groq, which rankled Chamath Palihapitiya
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
Reddit's down round IPO is a signal that rationality is slowly returning to VC and could encourage other tech companies looking to go public do the same
Does that mean the AI hype is going to bring back the old overblown expectations? …
Layoffs.fyi: 50,000+ workers have been laid off from over 200 tech companies since the start of 2024; some recently laid-off employees recall their experiences
Alex Koller / CNBC : X: @dimartinobooth and @grady_booch Forums: r/technews , r/Layoffs , r/technology , r/singularity , and r/business X: Danielle DiMartino Booth / @dimartinobooth : Difference betw...
A look at Murthy v. Missouri, a case SCOTUS will hear Monday, which may upend how government communicates with social media platforms on topics like misinfo
Sources: Binance tightened the requirements for listing new tokens, including extending partial coin supply lockups from up to six months to at least a year
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