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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Reddark: thousands of subreddits are going dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on API changes in an AMA on June 9 — The version of Reddit we'll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark …
More: Reddark, The Guardian, MacRumors, Insider, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, Android Authority, MediaNama, Neowin, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, Mashable, and The Information
Bluesky: @anildash.com. Mastodon: @paul@tapbots.social, @codinghorror@infosec.exchange, @viticci@mastodon …, @jerry@infosec.exchange, @mainframed767@infosec …, @rmdes@mstdn.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apolloapp, r/Quebec, r/hackernews, r/nottheonion, r/madisonwi, r/apolloapp, r/technews, r/funny, r/gadgets, r/TrueAnon, r/NoShitSherlock, r/technology, r/gaming, r/pics, and r/Music
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI — America's largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry's future may be across the pond, and is opening …
More: Bloomberg, The Block, Fortune, Decrypt, a16z crypto, CoinGape, Andreessen Horowitz, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Financial Times, and Reuters
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia GeForce Now in the coming months, letting users stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance — Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service.
More: Xbox Wire, Neowin, 9to5Google, TweakTown, PC Gamer, IGN, Digital Trends, and VideoCardz.com
Forums: r/Games and r/XboxSeriesX
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he does not “feel an imperative” from users to release a major Xbox upgrade, preferring instead the “hardware we have” — Microsoft Corp.'s video gaming chief Phil Spencer said he doesn't “feel an imperative” to come out with a major upgrade of its Xbox game console.
More: Appuals.com and IGN
| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Trying to shape AI tech to protect jobs is a bad idea since no one can predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor — Instead, we should empower workers and create mechanisms for redistribution. — I've been to a number of meetings and panels recently …
Tweets: @jackstilgoe, @psythor, and @emmabgo
| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
Researchers of tech change and employment disagree on how many jobs AI will affect; one tricky factor is primarily tasks, not occupations, are being automated — The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @stevelohr, @evankirstel, @mrsethharris, @clevy_law, and @nytimesbusiness
Forums: r/singularity and r/Futurology
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Meta launches MusicGen, an open-source AI model to generate short pieces of music using text prompts that can optionally be aligned to an existing melody — Meta's MusicGen can generate short new pieces of music based on text prompts, which can optionally be aligned to an existing melody.
More: Github, Hugging Face, and arXiv.org
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/singularity
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Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether — Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Engadget, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, Techlusive, International Business Times, Fortune, and The Verge
Bluesky: @nevillehobson.xyz. Tweets: @zoeschiffer, @jewishworker, @elizableu, @caseynewton, @leanmediaorg, @hackinggavin, @malwarejake, @andrewnebus, @vboykis, @zoeschiffer, @danprimack, @aniceburrito, @ericafails, @deaneckles, @fredwalton216, @martinsfp, @kimmasters, @davidclinchnews, and @platformer. Forums: r/Twitter
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
A tech reporter on why he bought a 2023 World Book Encyclopedia printed set: nostalgia, permanence, and no AI or human tampering, link rot, or stealth edits — The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse. — These days, many of us live online … | Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft haven't rolled out their AI chatbots in Hong Kong, adding to a slow creep of tech companies treating the city like mainland China — Google and OpenAI haven't rolled out AI chatbots to city, putting it alongside mainland China and North Korea| Simon Parkin / The Guardian: |
An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson's 1992 coinage of “metaverse” — Mark Zuckerberg's grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly.
Tweets: @fleming77
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
How science fiction and fantasy publishers are dealing with AI tools' role in the industry and with the trust crisis due to AI-generated content becoming common — Science fiction and fantasy authors are struggling with AI-generated media — and formulating strategies to deal with it.Sponsor Posts
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