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Interviews, pitch decks, and documents suggest that the recent success of Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has been bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims — Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people …
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Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida says cloud gaming has many technical difficulties and the company could utilize its AI agent GT Sophy to enhance cloud gaming — Promise of technology remains unfulfilled after more than a decade of development — Sony's chief executive has warned that cloud gaming …
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| Yvonne Lau / Fortune: |
As TSMC plans to hire 4,500 workers at its Arizona fabs, recruiters say the company's culture, rigid standards, and overseas training are turning off candidates — On the Glassdoor profile of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC—the world's biggest manufacturer of semiconductor chips … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
A look at the ad-supported, free dual screen TV from Ilya Pozin's Telly, which says its data and analytics collection will be on par with other TV vendors — More than 250,000 people have signed up in hopes of getting Telly's unique TV. There's something to this concept, but plenty of unknowns remain.| Chris Isidore / CNN: |
The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps — New York CNN — — Payment apps like PayPal and Venmo might be convenient, but they're not banks — and a federal financial services watchdog …
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| Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
Five teams at DEF CON 2023 will try to hack a US-funded cubesat Moonlighter, the first time DEF CON hackers will get a chance to hack a live, in-orbit satellite — 'World's first and only' orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday — FEATURE Assuming the weather and engineering gods cooperate …
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| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs — A Kenyan court has ruled that Meta is the primary employer of content moderators suing the social media giant and its content review partner …
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| Wired: |
Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, its politics of attention, power of federated networks, more — We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google is aware of a “very small” number of Pixel Watch 2 users reporting their watch's backplate falling off and is working to find the cause and fix the issue — Several users report the back of the Pixel Watch just falls off after a short time. — UPDATE: GOOGLE STATEMENT
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| Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: |
Some Montana residents speak about the state's highly politicized TikTok ban, including one of the influencers who is suing the state to overturn the ban — How a highly politicized social media ban in Big Sky Country sparked a nationwide debate over freedom of speech| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Hubble Network, which aims to build a global satellite network that any Bluetooth-enabled sensor or device can connect to, raised a $20M Series A — Bluetooth-enabled devices are ubiquitous, but how those devices are used is constrained by the relatively short range provided by Bluetooth technology.
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Via Satellite and FinSMEs
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Chris Hulls, Jyri Engeström, and Aria Alamalhodaei
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers — AI chatbots are less fluent in languages other than English, threatening to amplify existing bias in global commerce and innovation.
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Pascale Fung, Hans Uszkoreit, Yasmina Jraissati, and Sandhya Surendran. Mastodon:
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