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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils a standalone classical music iPhone app with 5M+ tracks, available for pre-order now as part of Apple Music subscriptions and launching March 28 — Apple is launching a new music streaming service focused on classical music. Based on its 2021 acquisition …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
UK CMA filings: Microsoft details how Call of Duty could run on the Nintendo Switch, citing an “optimized” game engine and outlining the success of past ports — In a filing (pdf) submitted to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft shared some details …
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| Yusuf Mehdi / Bing Blogs: |
Microsoft says Bing crossed 100M DAUs and the new Bing preview has millions of active users, of which roughly a third are new to the search engine — It's hard to believe it's been just over a month since we released the new AI-powered Bing and Edge to the world as your copilot for the web.
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Ashish Dogra and Yusuf Mehdi
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@marypcbuk, @glenngabe, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @taralson, @fxshaw, @kevin_indig, and @azeem. Thanks:@fxshaw
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord starts testing its ChatGPT-powered chatbot called Clyde and other AI features, including conversation summaries and tools to moderate servers — Discord is now using OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to transform its existing Clyde bot into a talkative chatbot.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Meta's Head of WhatsApp Will Cathcart says the service will not comply with UK requirements to remove end-to-end encryption set out in the Online Safety Bill — Meta's head of chat app says it would not comply with the requirements set out in online safety bill
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| Christiana Loureiro / The Block: |
Silvergate Capital plans to wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate Silvergate Bank, including “full repayment of all deposits”; SI drops 40%+ to ~$5 — - Silvergate Capital Corporation said it will wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate Silvergate Bank in accordance with applicable regulatory processes.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Grammarly announces GrammarlyGO, a generative AI tool that can write and rewrite content in a user's style, available to all users in beta in April 2023 — Generative AI was made popular by ChatGPT at the end of 2022, and for the first few months of 2023, the floodgates have opened up for the technology.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The White House's proposed budget will include a provision to close tax loss harvesting on crypto transactions, with the change expected to raise up to $24B — The U.S. President is expected to unveil his budget proposal on Thursday. — U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed budget …
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| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
In a first, the FBI acknowledges buying US location data, which Director Christopher Wray says was for a national security pilot project that's no longer active — Rather than obtaining a warrant, the bureau purchased sensitive data—a controversial practice that privacy advocates say is deeply problematic.
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@kyleseraphin, @toomuchme, @aimiessfriend, @kimcrayton1, @thomdunn, @tinybaby, and @jmichaelwaller
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
An interview with Google Cloud's Jack Buser on Google's post-Stadia gaming strategy, dubbed Google Cloud for Live Games, hoping to help companies scale games — Google Cloud is unveiling its new games strategy dubbed Google Cloud for Live Games. It means it will use its global infrastructure …
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OnMSFT.com, Google Cloud Blog, Pocket-lint, and TechRadar
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@stephentotilo, @stephentotilo, @killedbygoogle, and @stephentotilo
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Spotify redesigns its app's core homescreen with album and playlist covers and a TikTok-like vertical scroll of playlists, video podcasts, and more — Spotify is redesigning the core homescreen of its app, trying to make it easier for users to find new stuff to listen to — and watch.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ahead of its March 16 event, Baidu scrambles to ready its ChatGPT-style Ernie Bot, which struggles with basic tasks, to get ahead of its Chinese rivals — Employees working round-the-clock say the AI chatbot, dubbed Ernie Bot, is still in training mode before a planned March 16 rollout
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Computerworld. Tweets:
@niubi, @_karenhao, @jordanschnyc, @tomflowers, @martijnrasser, @niubi, @jchengwsj, @jimpethokoukis, and @hsu_steve
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI is probing a data breach of DC Health Link servers impacting thousands, including US House members and staff; some data is already up for sale online — The FBI is investigating a data breach affecting U.S. House of Representatives members and staff after their account …
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NBC News, Gizmodo, SC Media, Reuters, Associated Press, Metacurity, TechSpot, Washington Post, TechRadar, and Infosecurity
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@maxpcohen, @demopj, @maxpcohen, @amuse, @kevincollier, and @fbajak
| Washington Post: |
An investigation details how a group of conservative Colorado Catholics spent millions to acquire mobile app tracking data to find priests using gay dating apps — A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained dating and hookup app data and shared …
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@tonyajoriley, @froomkin, @emzanotti, @arkloster, @swodinsky, @ukigoni, @washingtonpost, @yashar, and @washingtonpost
| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Ring turned over footage of inside a user's home and business after a US judge's warrant gave police access to investigate a neighbor, raising privacy concerns — Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes ChatGPT available in its own Azure OpenAI service, letting developers and businesses add the conversational AI to their apps and services — Microsoft is making ChatGPT available in its own Azure OpenAI service today. Developers and businesses will now be able … | TechCrunch: |
Roku announces OS 12, adding local news channels with AI-powered recommendations, more live sports, an updated mobile app with a new home screen, and more — Roku devices are getting an upgrade. The company announced today a series of updates coming to its media streamers and TVs with the new version of its software, Roku OS 12.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games lets developers self-publish to Epic Games Store, taking a 12% commission on game sales and no cut of IAP if developers use their own payment methods — Epic Games is finally going to let developers self-publish games to the Epic Games Store beginning Thursday.
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Thurrott, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IGN, Neowin, PC Gamer, KnowTechie, and Gameranx
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple re-shuffles management of its international businesses to focus more on India, which will become its own sales region at Apple for the first time — Apple Inc. is reshuffling management of its international businesses to put a bigger focus on India, according to people …
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Barron's Online, iPhone in Canada Blog, Apple Must, Neowin, DigiTimes, BGR, iThinkDifferent, iPhone Hacks, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and Cult of Mac
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@markgurman, @rajneilkamath, @finestyew, @venkatananth, and @kushanmitra
| Tom Ward / Wired: |
A look at VISTA X-62A, an AI-operated F-16 test jet, considered to be a crucial first step toward US Air Force's plans to build unmanned combat aerial vehicles — After successful autonomous flight tests in December, the military is ramping up its plans to bring artificial intelligence to the skies.
Tweets:
@wired
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the company's role in the generative AI explosion, H100's transformer engine, US-China trade tensions, and more — WATCH NOW — Nvidia expanded from gaming into A.I. Now the big bet is paying off as its chips power ChatGPTSponsor Posts
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