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Sources: Apple and Luxshare cut Vision Pro production plans from 1M to less than 400K units in 2024 due to manufacturing problems for the $3,500 headset — Initial hopes of 1mn shipments in 2024 launch year dashed by manufacturing problems — Apple has been forced to make drastic cuts … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk's new read-limits; home timelines still load — Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping.| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits — For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB — Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to a USB-C port for the case — Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business.| Bloomberg: |
China imposes restrictions on exporting two metals used to make chips and other electronics, starting August 1, which will likely raise costs for manufacturers — China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications … | Benedict Evans: |
An analysis of whether AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs in the coming years like other waves of automation, or if this time is different — Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change … | Wall Street Journal: |
How some crypto miners want to repurpose their rigs to train AI models, which isn't easy or cheap but may be more affordable than AWS and cloud alternatives — Demand for high-end chips allows cryptocurrency companies to repurpose idle equipment — The boom in demand for high-end chips powering … | Bernhard Warner / New York Times: |
How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue — For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that's vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant, which set off polarizing debates on free speech and risks — A new generation of chatbots doesn't have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks.| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, including “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the plans with ad executives at Cannes — US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year — Netflix will develop increasingly targeted … | McKenna Oxenden / New York Times: |
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers — The YouTube star of “Songs for Littles,” an online video series that pulls millions of views, says she's found her calling in encouraging children to speak.
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