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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
At Intel's NYC event, Pat Gelsinger claimed that for AI, inference will become more important than training, and the industry wants to “eliminate” Nvidia's CUDA — Reframing the AI framework, away from CUDA and toward more open standards. — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger came … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
More: Intel, VentureBeat, Tom's Hardware, Hardware Canucks on YouTube, PC Gamer, Just Josh on YouTube, Notebookcheck, PCWorld, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Phoronix, TechSpot, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, HotHardware, CRN, Club386, Android Headlines, How-To Geek, guru3d.com, Windows Central, KitGuru, and Neowin
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: XDA Developers, Windows Central, PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, Lenovo StoryHub, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, Thurrott, PetaPixel, Lifewire, Android Headlines, PCMag, TweakTown, Windows Blog, Notebookcheck, TechRepublic, Liliputing, TechPowerUp, 9to5Google, TechEBlog, and Business Today
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Email: Cruise lays off 900 staff, or ~24% of its workforce, targeting non-engineering jobs, as part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company — Cruise, the embattled GM self-driving car subsidiary, is laying off 900 employees, or about 24% of its workforce … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta launches Threads in the European Union, following the US, the UK, and 100+ other countries, and adds a way for EU users to browse Threads without a profile — Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is now available in the European Union, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The US DOJ announces an indictment for four people, two of whom have been arrested, in an alleged international pig butchering crypto scam costing victims $80M+ — - Los Angeles federal prosecutors said four indictments and two arrests had been made in an international “pig butchering” scheme.
More: US Department of Justice, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, and NBC News. Mastodon: @brianstorms@mastodon.social
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Google DeepMind's FunSearch model cracks the unsolved cap set problem in pure mathematics, the first time an LLM has solved a long-standing scientific puzzle — They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage. — Google DeepMind has used a large language model …
More: Google DeepMind, Nature, SiliconANGLE, Nature, The Guardian, New Scientist, and Stack Diary
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google plans to test Tracking Protection and blocking third-party cookies on January 4 for ~1% of Chrome users globally, ahead of a phased rollout in H2 2024 — Google is about to launch its grand plan to block third-party cookies in Chrome that many websites use to track your activity across the web for profit.
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to use Gemini across nearly its entire line of products and in Pixie, an upcoming AI assistant that will be exclusive to its Pixel devices — For Google, it was a moment to savor its apparent triumph over the doomsayers. — Last week, the company released the first version …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
The confusion around Dropbox's AI toggle highlights an AI trust crisis where many users don't believe OpenAI's claims that their data won't be used for training — Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism.
Threads: @jina. Mastodon: @zarfeblong@mastodon …. X: @simonw, @rstankov, @bengoldhaber, and @iethics. Forums: Hacker News
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Amazon validates Project Kuiper's optical inter-satellite links, which use infrared lasers to move data around 30% faster than terrestrial fiber optical cables — Amazon's Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using …
More: About Amazon, Bloomberg, CircleID, The Messenger, TechEBlog, PCMag, GeekWire, and The Verge
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches a Pixel Diagnostic App and repair manuals in English in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixel devices are sold — Besides the new Repair Mode introduced with Android 14 QPR1 and the December Feature Drop, Google is widely launching … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: LinkedIn shelves its effort, announced in 2019, to relocate its data centers out of its physical facilities and into Azure, a setback for Microsoft — - LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services.
More: Runtime, The Information, The Register, Tech Monitor, Neowin, and DatacenterDynamics
| Ben Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Andreessen Horowitz says “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values” for technology — As software has eaten the world, it has become integral to every industry and nearly every endeavor in our society.
More: TechCrunch, Axios, Seeking Alpha, and Robots.net
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a generative AI background editing tool in the US, letting users change the background for their Stories using text prompts — Instagram introduced its generative AI-powered background editing tool to U.S.-based users Wednesday. — Meta's lead for generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle posted …
More: Decrypt, Laptop Mag, Engadget, MobileSyrup, PetaPixel, Android Headlines, Valahia.News, Metaverse Post, and The Verge. Threads: @aaldahle
| Malak Saleh / Engadget: |
| Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired: |
A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg's 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker.
Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @jackmjenkins, @katiedrumm, @kylebrussell, and @jtemperton. Forums: Hacker News
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US FCC grants SpaceX a “temporary authorization” to test its cellular Starlink system by beaming data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations — The experimental authorization lets SpaceX test the cellular Starlink system by using 840 satellites to beam the data … | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Three Polish hackers say they fixed trains allegedly bricked by manufacturer Newag because an independent repair shop worked on them; Newag denies bricking them — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, we are Rogue, The Drive, and The Register
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X: @utopiah, @tonamiplayman, @josephfcox, @kwiens, and @jason_koebler
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Apple's stock rose 1.7% to close at $197.96 on December 13, surpassing its previous record close in July 2023, for a ~$3.08T market cap; AAPL is up 57% in 2023 — - Shares surpass July high, putting market cap at $3.08 trillion — Revenue seen growing again in 2024 after falling this year| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Filing: Apple and Corellium settle a copyright dispute dating to 2019 in which Apple tried to shut down Corellium's virtual iPhone software — Court announces a settlement after a protracted legal dispute in which Apple tried to shut down Corellium's virtual iPhone software, which is largely used by security researchers.| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI details how its Superalignment research team is exploring ways to control stronger AI models like GPT-4 using weaker supervisor models like GPT-2 — The “superalignment” team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.
More: OpenAI, MIT Technology Review, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Baseline, and IEEE Spectrum
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| Reuters: |
A judge tentatively rules that Elon Musk must testify again for the US SEC's investigation of his $44B Twitter takeover, after the SEC sued Musk in October 2023 — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday tentatively ruled that billionaire Elon Musk must testify again for the U.S. Securities …
More: The Messenger, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok quietly changed its TOS in July 2023, including removing requiring users to go through private arbitration, making it more difficult to sue the company — Some lawyers say the changes could make it more difficult to bring legal action against the company.Sponsor Posts
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