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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The European Commission issues a preliminary view in its antitrust investigation of Google and suggests the company divest its ad business; Google can now reply — The European Commission has made a formal antitrust complaint against Google and its ad business, saying that its preliminary view is that …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, and r/worldnews
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
The European Parliament passes a draft AI Act to curtail facial recognition, force data disclosures, and more; a final version is expected to pass later in 2023 — A draft law in the European Parliament has become the world's most far-reaching attempt to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
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| BBC: |
Margrethe Vestager says discrimination in AI training data is a more pressing concern than human extinction and that “guardrails” are needed to counter its bias — Discrimination is a more pressing concern from advancing artificial intelligence than human extinction, says the EU's competition chief.
More: The Guardian and New York Times
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google Shopping gets a virtual try-on clothing feature that uses a diffusion-based generative AI model, letting US users see how items look on many human models — Google, ever eager to lean into generative AI, is launching a new shopping feature that shows clothes on a lineup of real-life fashion models.
More: Bloomberg, Wired, Gizmodo, The Verge, The Keyword, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Google, CNET, and PetaPixel
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Lens gets a skin condition feature that shows search results “visually similar to what you see on your skin” while warning they are “not a diagnosis” — Along with Maps Live View, Lens is Google's most promising AR service, and it now has the ability to recognize skin conditions.
More: The Keyword, Android Central, Engadget, TechCrunch, Droid Life, Chrome Unboxed, BigTechWire, BGR, and Mashable
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Amazon VP of EC2 Dave Brown says AWS is considering using AMD's new MI300 chips and declined to use Nvidia's DGX Cloud, for which Oracle is the first partner — Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O), the world's largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips …
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| Forbes: |
A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's mysterious associate who appears repeatedly in the SEC's lawsuit against the crypto exchange — CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao's mysterious associate Guangying Chen emerges as a key player in his company's operations …
More: Fortune, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, and CCN.com
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As 8,000+ subreddits go dark, Google's search results, which are often improved with human-sounding information by appending “reddit” to a query, have suffered — Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit's upcoming API changes, and it's shown me just how much I rely …
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| Kenneth Chang / New York Times: |
IBM details using its 127-qubit quantum processor to simulate the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets, known as the Ising model, in less than a millisecond — A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says a Galaxy Watch update coming this summer will add an Irregular Heart Rhythm Notifications feature in 13 markets, including the US and South Korea — In a new announcement this week, Samsung has officially confirmed that it has a new smartwatch coming later this year … | Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
Razer updates its Blade 14 laptop with AMD's Ryzen 9 7940HS, Nvidia's RTX 4060 or RTX 4070, up to 32GB of RAM, and a 14" QHD+ 240Hz display, starting at $2,400 — Despite running late and experiencing shipping delays, AMD's latest Zen 4 mobile chips with RDNA 3 graphics and Ryzen AI … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases new GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 versions with a new “function calling” feature for coding, and cuts the price of the original GPT-3.5-turbo by 25% — As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing.
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| Chris Plante / Polygon: |
Q&A with Phil Spencer on AI in games, using Xbox player data and ML, Game Pass lessons, “living games”, games built within Minecraft, looking to 2024, and more — Phil Spencer talks with Polygon about the future of living games, Xbox's huge 2024, AI, and more| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify shifts its podcast strategy from being a sort of HBO that releases exclusive shows to providing tools for podcast creators, similar to YouTube's model — Over the past four years, Spotify Technology SA has announced a succession of splashy deals showing off how much money it's willing … | Reuters: |
Sources: Arm discusses IPO participation with 10+ clients, including Intel, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, TSMC, and Samsung; any decision won't come until August — June 12 (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) Arm is in talks with some of its biggest customers and end users about bringing … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers steal encryption keys stored in smart cards and smartphones by video recording the devices' power LEDs, with some significant real-world limitations — Key-leaking side channels are a fact of life. Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs.
More: HotHardware. LinkedIn: Victor Muñ. Tweets: @ericlaw. Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
The US National Music Publishers' Association sues Twitter, alleging the company violates the copyright of songwriters by using ~1,700 songs without permission — The National Music Publishers' Association sued Twitter Inc. Wednesday, alleging it violates the copyright of songwriters by using …
Tweets: @zoeschiffer, @zoeschiffer, and @sarahfrier
| Nic Newman / Reuters Institute: |
Reuters' 2023 Digital News Report: despite fragmentation, users' dependence on social media platforms for news keeps growing; Facebook declines and TikTok gains — This year's report comes against the backdrop of a global cost-of-living crisis, a continuing war in the heart of Europe, and further climate instability across the world.
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| River Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Japanese ride-hailing app Go, which has a nearly 75% local market share, as some taxi operators say founder Ichiro Kawanabe pushed them to avoid Uber — Challenge in Japan shows how local operators can derail ride-hailing app's overseas ambitions| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Amazon Fire Max 11 review: cheap, a nice screen, and a decent stylus, but an anemic app store, limited multitasking, a cramped aspect ratio, and a bad trackpad — The Fire Max 11 has the most advanced and refined hardware of any Amazon tablet yet. But it is held back by the same old problems.
More: ZDNet, XDA Developers, SlashGear, CNET, and Android Central
| Axios: |
Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI; experts are split on whether Section 230 applies — Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI …
More: Gizmodo, CNET, Reuters, Senator Josh Hawley, and The Hill
Tweets: @kevincollier, @hawleymo, and @abigailmarone
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
US and international cybersecurity authorities say the LockBit ransomware gang has extorted ~$91M following ~1,700 attacks against US organizations since 2020 — U.S. and international cybersecurity authorities said in a joint LockBit ransomware advisory that the gang successfully extorted …
More: The Register, Cybersecurity …, HealthITSecurity, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Tweets: @cisagov
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023 — A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now.
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| Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Vodafone and Three agree to merge, forming the UK's largest mobile network, pending months of regulatory review, and take on £6B in debt; Vodafone would own 51% — Vodafone Group Plc and CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. agreed to combine their UK mobile businesses in a deal that will create …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @benwood, @alexdobie, and @mattophobia
| Sayan Chakraborty / Nikkei Asia: |
Peak XV head Shailendra Singh says the Sequoia split lets the India and Southeast Asia-focused firm pursue US deals in sectors like AI while avoiding conflicts — Split with American parent eliminates potential conflicts in hot sectors like AI — Managing Director Shailendra Singh …
More: Bloomberg, Crowdfund Insider, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud data management company Informatica acquires London-based data access controls startup Privitar, which has raised $150M+ and was valued at $400M+ in 2020 — One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we're getting another dose of it in the area of enterprise data management.
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