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Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but a forced sale of its US operations may undermine the company's ability to fight adversarial threats — from the when-government-demands-backfire dept — Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting …
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| Intel: |
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94 — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more — The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.
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| Gary Price / LJ Infodocket: |
A US federal judge rules in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending system — This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible. — This coverage is free for all visitors.
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| Financial Times: |
In his first visit since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple's “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid the company's moves to diversify from the country — Chief executive's visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots — Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft threatened to cut rivals' Bing search index access over its use in their AI chat tools and warned at least two that they violated its terms — Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines …
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| Irregular Ideas: |
LLMs will remove scholarly, creative, and economic software creation barriers, marking the industry's Gutenberg moment to unleash the next great technology wave — There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT.
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
How Meta could sidestep ATT's impairments by launching a mobile games store, as Apple reportedly prepares multiple app store support on iOS due to the EU's DMA — This week, Microsoft declared that it will launch a mobile games app store on both iOS and Android next year, should its acquisition of Activision Blizzard be approved.| Georgia Gee / The Intercept: |
An investigation finds US homeowners associations teaming up with police to install Flock Safety's license plate surveillance cameras, without telling residents — At a city council meeting in June 2021, Mayor Thomas Kilgore, of Lakeway, Texas, made an announcement that confused his community.
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Jeff Frick and Gerry Kennedy
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| Stratechery: |
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI's iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US' export controls, Nvidia's position in the stack in an LLM world, and more — I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March's GTC conference, and again after last fall's GTC …
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| The Verge: |
An AI chatbots comparison test finds ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited — The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.Sponsor Posts
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