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Elon Musk's “Tesla Bot” is a distraction and an empty promise, considering the progress of Boston Dynamics' Atlas, which has been in development for 10+ years — A distraction and an empty promise — After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines — The social-media platform's Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data.
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Emails show Facebook quashed a Q1 content transparency report fearing public criticism, as the most viewed link implied a doctor died from the COVID vaccine — The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.” — When Facebook this week released …
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| Post-Culture / @postcultrev: |
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
OnlyFans shares new TOS for “sexually explicit conduct”: no intercourse, masturbation, exhibition of genitals; any such content must be removed before Dec. 1 — Sex and masturbation, whether simulated or real, aren't allowed — On Thursday the video and image sharing site …
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| Jeong Park / Sacramento Bee: |
A California superior court judge rules that Prop 22 is unconstitutional because it infringes on the Legislature's power to set workplace standards — A California judge on Friday ruled that a 2020 ballot measure exempting rideshare and food delivery drivers from a state labor law … | Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Mark Gurman: high-end M1X Mac mini with an updated design and more ports than the current M1 Mac mini should replace the Intel model in the next several months — Apple can be expected to launch an updated high-end Mac mini with a new design and a faster “M1X” Apple silicon processor in the …
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Automattic's recent funding news, which outlined a $288M primary round, buybacks, and an internal liquidity market for staff — Hello and welcome to Pipeline. This week: the FBI's warning to startups, OnlyFans pulls a Tumblr and inside Automattic's unusual funding and buyback rounds.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A look at Afghanistan's burgeoning crypto scene, which Chainalysis ranked 20th globally in overall crypto adoption in 2021, after ranking among lowest last year — - For many Afghans, this week has laid bare the worst-case scenario for a country running on legacy financial rails …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years — The billionaire entrepreneur matched the heights of America's tech legends but failed to heed warnings that Chinese leader Xi Jinping still called the shots| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Critics fear the new IT rules in India, where the internet is dominated by US digital platforms, give the government even more power to stomp out dissent — For more than 30 years, Manjul, who goes by his first name only, has skewered leaders from every Indian government …
Tweets: @evelyndouek, @pranavdixit, and @kateconger
| Matthew Hutson / New Yorker: |
Profile of Cerebras, which made the world's largest chip by using a “wafer-scale” approach that offers one possibility for AI chips to keep up with Moore's law — In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.
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