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A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end — The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.
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| Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog: |
Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez's weak core arguments after their initial dismantling — I'm going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests. My takeaways: — I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to bring its Xbox PC games to Nvidia GeForce Now and promises to offer Activision Blizzard games on the cloud service if the acquisition closes — Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels today …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter laid off dozens of sales and engineering staff last week, as Elon Musk demands the site's ad targeting work like Google search ads in one week — He keeps laying people off anyway. — Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week …
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February 2023, as some worry that generative AI could commoditize book writing — Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft now allows six Bing Chat turns per session and 60 chats per day and plans to test chat tones for switching between focused and creative responses — Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta releases Quest v50, adding Direct Touch, an experimental setting letting users “touch” virtual buttons and keyboards directly instead of via pinch gestures — Hand tracking on Meta's Quest VR headsets is about to get better. With the new v50 update, you'll be able to …
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| Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill: |
Medical device company AliveCor, which accused Apple of patent infringement, claims Biden upheld an ITC ruling that could result in an Apple Watch import ban — President Biden has upheld an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling that could result in an import ban on the Apple Watch … | Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: |
Q&A with David Wakeling of Allen & Overy, one of world's largest law firms, on using OpenAI-developed generative AI tool Harvey to write legal documents — Large law firms are using a tool made by OpenAI to research and write legal documents. What could go wrong?
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Microsoft appears to be injecting ads for Edge on a Google.com website when users download Chrome using the latest Edge Canary preview on Windows — Microsoft sees its browser as an important aspect and entry point for the new Bing. Microsoft Edge on Windows is now showing a rather aggrieve ad …
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| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Chinese regulators told Tencent, Ant Group, and others not to offer public ChatGPT services, after state media criticized chatbots over misinformation — State media outlet blasts chatbot as spreading U.S. government ‘misinformation’ — HONG KONG — Regulators … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Amazon expands its partnership with OpenAI-rival Hugging Face, which plans to build its next-gen LLM on AWS and have Amazon offer its tools to AWS customers — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit is expanding a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face Inc. … | Louis Rosenberg / VentureBeat: |
Berkeley study: researchers identified VR users with 94%+ accuracy using 100 seconds of motion data, after analyzing anonymized data of 50K+ Beat Saber players — Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I. — A new paper from the University of California Berkeley reveals that privacy may be impossible …
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Google Cloud partners with the Tezos Foundation to become a validator on the proof-of-stake Tezos blockchain, seeking to help clients develop and deploy apps — - Google Cloud has partnered with Tezos to act as a validator on the proof-of-stake blockchain network.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The FTC won't challenge Amazon's $3.49B acquisition of One Medical parent company 1Life Healthcare, which will allow the deal to close later this week — The Federal Trade Commission won't challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s $3.49 billion acquisition of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare Inc. …
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Uber launches a redesigned version of its app globally, including adding a simpler homescreen, a Services tab, and live tracking on iOS 16 — Uber is releasing an updated version of its app that aims to simplify and personalize the experience for customers.| Ugur Yilmaz / Bloomberg: |
Turkey's telecoms watchdog BTK blocks access to Eksi Sozluk, one of the country's biggest social media sites; pro-government media celebrated the move — Turkey blocked access to one of the country's most popular social media websites, Eksi Sozluk, its latest move against platforms that it accuses of spreading disinformation.
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