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 …
Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks
Apple researchers have developed new methods for training large language models on both text and images, enabling more powerful …
In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged “unease” among VMware customers and partners after making sweeping post-acquisition changes
“There's more to come.” — Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners …
LinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to network …
A look at a potential TikTok US sale, with an estimated valuation of $100B, or $40B without the algorithm, as Steven Mnuchin and others form investor groups
- TikTok's U.S. revenue reportedly was between $16 billion and $20 billion in 2023, but CEO Shou Zi Chew has said the company is in the red.
A look at issues and monetization options for Apple CarPlay; sources: Apple plans to produce 20M-25M units of the entry and mid-tier AirPods launching this fall
Apple's new CarPlay interface was originally designed to fend off Android, but now it's Apple's last hope to conquer the automotive industry.
How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn't a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino's thankless task of trying to assure brands
Unexpected split leaves X CEO Linda Yaccarino with another loss — Don Lemon got to see both sides of Elon Musk.
Sources: US prosecutors in Virginia, with FDA's help, are investigating whether Meta's platforms are facilitating and profiting from the illegal sale of drugs
Federal prosecutors are looking into whether platforms including Facebook facilitate and profit from illicit sale of drugs
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”
Bloomberg Brian Mutembei / The Crypto Times : Sam Bankman-Fried's Image Restoration Strategy Revealed Zack Abrams / The Block : Sam Bankman-Fried considered blaming lawyers, “woke agenda” to protect i...
A look at the collapse of dating apps' usability, which can be blamed on the paid subscription model and the near monopoly the apps have over the dating world
“The golden age of dating apps is over,” a friend told me at a bar on Super Bowl Sunday. As we waited for our drinks … X: @gayathriv , @nytopinion , @mattsheffield , @nytopinion , @magdajtaylor , and...
FTX's collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant today, including a lack of decentralization and companies' persistent regulatory battles
Jay Gatsby, Albert Einstein, Frodo Baggins, John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg …
Epic's antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months
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How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment
A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day. So he decided to fight back X: @mrbrownsir , @hoofnagle , @ftmag , @michaelezra , @madhumita29 , @karenojeffrey , @le...
How China's spending may swamp India's chip ambitions; TrendForce: China's share of global mature-node production will grow from 31% in 2023 to 39% in 2027
India is making a play for the semiconductor space—but fallout from U.S.-China tensions and China's deep pockets could get in the way X: @wsjheard , @meghamandavia , @wsj , and @ali_wyne X: @wsjheard ...
An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn's push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering
For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself in an early-stage tech startup to study its organization and culture. X: @ieeespectrum , @p_h_albuquerque , and @grady_booch Linke...
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”
In an updated IPO prospectus on Friday, Reddit said it's being probed by the FTC for its data-licensing practices. — Although Reddit's core business relies on online advertising, the company is seek...
A profile of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, whose trial begins on March 18 in SF, where federal prosecutors have accused him of defrauding HP of billions
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Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian : Mastodon: @CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk . X: @thekenyeung and @bw400cn LinkedIn: Cheryl Calverley and Jonathan Andrew, PhD Mastodon: Prof. Catherine Flick / @Catherin...
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
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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
The Economic Times :
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
Gist is, the models … Kit Eaton / Inc.com : Low-Tech Computer Art Foils Cutting-Edge AI Safety Systems Mastodon: Matthew Lyon / @mattly@hachyderm.io : contemporary cyberpunk is jailbreaking LLM chatbo...
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
Joanna Nelius / The Verge : Mastodon: @vicmsong@mastodon.social . X: @vicmsong . Forums: r/hardware Mastodon: Victoria Song / @vicmsong@mastodon.social : Our new laptop reviewer Joanna Nelius' first ...
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
and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the personal information of immigrants and non-Chri...
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