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Foxconn is halting operations at two of its Shenzhen sites, one of which produces iPhones, after the government imposed a lockdown in the city till March 20 — Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn is halting operations at its Shenzhen sites, one of which produces iPhones, in response to a government-imposed lockdown on the tech hub city.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro models will get the A16 chip and 6GB of LPDDR 5 RAM, the standard iPhone 14 models will remain on A15 Bionic chip and get 6GB of LPDDR 4X RAM — Only the iPhone 14 Pro models will have the “A16” chip, while the standard iPhone 14 models will retain the A15 Bionic chip from the iPhone 13 …
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| Reuters: |
Clearview AI's CEO says Ukraine is using its tech for free, with 2B+ images from Russia's VKontakte, to identify Russian operatives and the dead — Ukraine's defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology, the company's chief executive told Reuters …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter updated its iOS app to let users swipe between the algorithmic Home and reverse chronological Latest timelines but users can't make Latest the default — You won't be able to default to the chronological timeline — Twitter is rolling out a change that, frustratingly …
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| Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal: |
People are sending news about Ukraine to Russians using a website that randomly selects from a list of ~20M phone numbers and ~140M email addresses in Russia — Website developed by hackers is new initiative in West's battle to counter Russia's propaganda campaign
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| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
How inheritance issues strike at the root of crypto's libertarian ethos, as disdain for institutions and lack of legal guidance leads to problems for inheritors — Your bitcoin can live on, even if you don't. — Like a lot of Americans, Sandy Carter has been getting into crypto.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on newly announced iPhone SE, iPad Air, and Mac Studio, and an in-depth look at the M2 chip, Mac Pro, iMac Pro, and Apple's future display plans — Here are my thoughts on Apple's new iPhone SE, iPad Air and Mac Studio, as well as an in-depth look at the M2 chip, Mac Pro, iMac Pro and future display plans.
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| Lara Putnam / Wired: |
Research: 23 of the top 30 search results for the numbers 11, 12, 13 on Facebook were groups targeting children of those ages, including with sexual references — The platform can be quicker at recommending groups built around child predation than it is to remove them.
Tweets: @josh_nelson, @lara_putnam, @lara_putnam, @lara_putnam, @nataliew1020, @wired, @nataliew1020, @quinns108, and @lara_putnam
| Gary Marcus / Nautilus: |
A look at the limitations of deep learning, and how “neurosymbolic” approaches to AI could offer a way forward for developing artificial general intelligence — Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious," Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning …
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High ROI Data Science, Michael's Newsletter, and Spaghetti Data
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| Jing Yang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tencent is facing a record fine after Chinese regulators found WeChat Pay flouted anti-money-laundering rules and had other regulatory lapses — China's central bank found regulatory breaches and lapses during a recent inspection of the ubiquitous payments network| Benjamin Goggin / NBC News: |
A look at growing online meth communities on Zoom, Reddit, and others as they attract little attention from content moderators, worsening the addiction problem — In December, Paul went home for the holidays. Like many people, he hadn't seen his family for almost a year.| Rest of World: |
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