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A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more — “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple uses its Rapid Security Response feature, announced at WWDC 2022, to push a non-beta public update for the first time to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS users — Rapid Security Response updates haven't been released to the public until today. — When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16 …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Samsung bans employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company devices over concerns staff will leak sensitive data — Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT after discovering staff uploaded sensitive code …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years — International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of “the world's most interesting people”, first to the UK, as the startup seeks to reverse slowing growth — Days after it started offering users the option to post more than once per day, BeReal is rolling out another new feature.| Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
The Writers Guild of America calls for a strike after negotiations with Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and others over pay and AI issues failed; around 12K may strike — The entertainment industry is in the throes of a labor dispute and more than a few of the sticking points involve recent technological changes.
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Pornhub disabled its website in Utah following a new age verification law for porn sites, instead showing a video asking users to talk to their representatives — People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Mastodon rolls out a new onboarding experience that defaults to the mastodon.social server, instead of requiring new users to pick from thousands of instances — Mastodon is making it easier for newcomers to create an account on the platform. On Monday, the decentralized network announced …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
OnePlus Pad review: a bright screen, excellent build quality, and snappy performance, but limited built-in apps, subpar keyboard and stylus, and a mid-tier CPU — OnePlus' first tablet brings high-end features and specs to a midrange price point. It reminds me of the OnePlus we used to know.
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Automattic plans to drop its WordPress plugin JetPack's ability to automatically tweet blog posts, citing Twitter's dramatic change to its API terms and pricing — Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies. — When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sources detail Amazon's canceled plan to make Halo a success; the sophisticated AI-based fitness service was undone due to “significant headwinds” and low sales — A redesigned Halo service was due this fall with an AI-powered personal trainer, celebrity-led fitness classes, and even Apple Watch support.| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $8.82B, gross bookings up 19% YoY to $31.4B, $761M in adjusted EBITDA, up from $593M in Q1 2022, and a $157M loss — Ride-hailing leader predicts continuing growth for current quarter — Continued demand for Uber Technologies ' ride-share …
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