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Investigations: Instagram connects and promotes a vast network of accounts openly devoted to underage sex content; Meta plans to improve its internal controls — The Meta unit's systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases a Game Porting Toolkit, based on the open-source platform Wine, to translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming — One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google updates how Bard handles math, coding questions, and string manipulation via “implicit code execution”, which lets the chatbot run code in the background — Bard, Google's beleaguered AI-powered chatbot, is slowly improving at tasks involving logic and reasoning.| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon plans to launch an ad-supported Prime Video tier and is talking with WBD and Paramount about adding their ad-based tiers to Prime Video Channels — Discussions come as ad buyers have been pushing for more access to premium shows and movies — Amazon is planning to launch … | William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple details features coming to its services this fall, like offline maps and real-time EV charging availability in Maps and Collaborative Playlists in Music — New features are coming to Apple Music, Apple Maps and more — Following the launch of Apple's next operating systems for its devices …
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Google Cloud partners with Mayo Clinic to test a service for making AI chatbots and search apps; Mayo created a tool that helps staff find patient data and more — - Google Cloud on Wednesday said Mayo Clinic is using a new generative AI search tool that lets companies create customized chatbots.| The Athletic: |
Sources: MLS and Apple discussed sharing new Season Pass subscriber revenue with Lionel Messi; on June 6, Apple unveiled a four-part Messi docuseries on TV+ — Major League Soccer and Inter Miami are solidifying details around the potential signing of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.
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Reddit creates an exemption from its unpopular new usage-based API pricing terms for “select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs” — Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps …
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
GameStop fires CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appoints chairman and majority shareholder Ryan Cohen as its executive chairman; GME drops 15%+ — June 7 (Reuters) - GameStop (GME.N) fired CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appointed billionaire Ryan Cohen as executive chairman …
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Chats, screenshots, and interviews: some people are pirating GPT-4 and offering free access after stealing OpenAI API tokens scraped from other people's code — Why pay for $150,000 worth of OpenAI access when you could just steal it? — People on the Discord for the r/ChatGPT subreddit …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic launches Jetpack AI Assistant for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites, letting users generate content, translate text into 12 languages, and more — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to the open-source WordPress project …
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Twitch walks back new branded content guidelines it released on June 6 and calls them “bad” for streamers and the company, after swift backlash from creators — / ‘These guidelines are bad for you and bad for Twitch, and we are removing them immediately.’
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Mojang launches Minecraft: Bedrock Edition for ChromeOS, after early access in March 2023; the $20 game runs on Chromebooks from the past three years and more — It will run on any Chromebook from the last three years, as well as some other models. — Following an early access period …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Pornhub adds a video message to its homepage for Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas visitors, asking to oppose the states' newly passed age verification laws — Pornhub wants to punt privacy concerns of age verification to Big Tech. — Starting today, Pornhub visitors in Virginia …
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The US DOJ says Onur Aksoy pleaded guilty to importing and selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to various organizations, making $100M+ between 2014 and 2022 — A Florida man has pleaded guilty to importing and selling counterfeit Cisco networking equipment to various organizations …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to update its account center to give users more control over its cross-site tracking and profiling, ahead of a German antitrust ruling set for July 4 — Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office …
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
The Clop ransomware gang tells the BBC, British Airways, Boots, and other victims to begin negotiations by June 14 or it will release data from the MOVEit hack — A prolific cyber crime gang thought to be based in Russia has issued an ultimatum to victims of a hack that has hit organisations around the world.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Contextual AI, which is building the next generation of LLMs for enterprise use-cases, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures — Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 are powerful, paradigm-shifting tools that promise to upend industries.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft starts offering OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 to Azure Government clients, including various US agencies; the DOD's DTIC plans to experiment with the LLMs — Microsoft Corp. will make it possible for users of its Azure Government cloud computing service, which include a variety of US agencies …
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| Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
Crypto is dangerous nonsense and should be regulated like smoking, gambling, or pyramid schemes, not granted the dignity of regulation under US securities law — But not for the reasons the exchanges think — This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: the SEC asked a DC court to grant a temporary restraining order that would freeze assets tied to Binance.US' holding and operating companies — The filing comes a day after the SEC sued Binance. — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked a court to grant …
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