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A look at the reasons for the less-than-expected developer enthusiasm for Apple's Vision Pro, including an uncertain ROI and anger at the App Store policies — Apple's new Vision Pro will lack some key apps when it debuts, renewing concerns about an already-tense relationship with certain developers.
More: The Verge, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, and MacRumors
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Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019 — - Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team
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| Juliette Perreard / Nikkei Asia: |
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies — Finding common language with China will be difficult, European Commission official says — One of the many signs in Davos …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at the Mac's evolution as it turns 40, and interviews with Alan Dye and other Apple executives about Mac's future, its influence on Vision Pro, and more — The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.
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Sources: Canva topped $2B in annualized revenue in 2023, as the company nears a $1.5B+ share sale at a ~$26B valuation, about the same as in its previous round — - Sale of existing shares would maintain $26 billion valuation — Australian firm saw over $2 billion annualized revenue in 2023| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nightshade, a free tool letting artists “poison” AI models that attempt to train on their artwork without permission, is now available to download on Mac and PC — It's here: months after it was first announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” …
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| Harry McCracken / Technologizer: |
In an unpublished manuscript, David Bunnell, co-founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, details the origins of the enduring media brands in the 1980s — In an unpublished manuscript, the cofounder of three enduring media brands looks back. … “But Flying Upside Down is more than that.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
BreachForums admin Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin”, is sentenced to 20 years of supervised release for his role in running the cybercrime forum — Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was sentenced to 20 years of supervised release today in the Eastern District of Virginia … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at Nvidia and Convai's AI-powered video game NPCs, which are effectively generative AI chatbots that interact with the players — What if you could just... speak... to video game characters? Ask your own questions, with your own voice, instead of picking from preset phrases?
More: Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Dataconomy, VentureBeat, Kotaku, Gizmodo, The Decoder, and Forbes
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
OpenAI bans the developer of a chatbot mimicking presidential hopeful Dean Phillips, the company's first action against use of its tech in political campaigns — It's the ChatGPT maker's first known action against the use of its technology in a political campaign| Sam Potter / Bloomberg: |
An interview with crypto skeptic James Block, whose damning critique of Signature Bank on his newsletter, Dirty Bubble Media, became the best short call of 2023 — - Doctor whose hobby is debunking crypto made top bearish call — Report on Signature Bank appeared two months before collapse
X: @mcelarier
| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
A September 2023 survey of 3,000+ game developers: 84% were somewhat or very concerned about the ethics of using generative AI and 35% were impacted by layoffs — Game developers are overwhelmingly concerned about the ethics of using AI. The organizers of the Game Developers Conference …
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