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The European Court of Human Rights rules backdoors that weaken E2EE violate human rights law, after Russia began requiring Telegram to decrypt messages in 2017 — Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says. — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/privacy, r/ukpolitics, r/privacy, r/europe, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
X removes paid checkmarks from some accounts after a watchdog group found 28 verified accounts allegedly tied to Hezbollah and other US-sanctioned entities — X (aka Twitter) accused of violating sanctions by taking payment from terrorists. — A watchdog group's investigation found …
More: New York Times, Tech Transparency Project, The Verge, Forbes, BBC, Business Today, X, Boing Boing, Rolling Stone, Engadget, and The Hill
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
NYC sues ByteDance, Meta, Snap, and Google to hold the companies accountable “for fueling the nationwide youth mental health crisis” by manipulating young users — New York City filed a lawsuit against TikTok, Meta, Snap and Google's YouTube to hold the companies accountable … | Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: |
Many Apple Vision Pro users are returning their devices, saying they're too expensive, heavy, or isolating, as the 14-day return window nears its end for buyers — Many early adopters seem set on returning their Apple Vision Pro headsets. As the 14-day return window approaches for people …
More: The Verge, Business Insider, Android Authority, Business Today, Latest Odisha News …, TweakTown, iThinkDifferent, MySmartPrice, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, PhoneArena, MacRumors, ZeroHedge News, MobileSyrup, BGR, Quartz, and Benzinga
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI has been developing a web search product partly powered by Bing — OpenAI has been developing a web search product that would bring the Microsoft-backed startup into more direct competition with Google, according to someone with knowledge of OpenAI's plans.
More: Android Authority, MSPoweruser, Benzinga, PhoneArena, SlashGear, The Indian Express, and Shacknews
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| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Meta struggles to precisely define what political content is, offering only a vague statement, after saying Threads would not amplify political content — What constitutes “political” content? — It's an important question that Meta has conspicuously left unanswered …
More: Anchor Change … and Platformer
Threads: @crumbler, @shiraovide, @katieharbath, @jayfarrellarnold, @bostonjoan, @doniecnn, and @oliverdarcy
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Amazon researchers detail BASE TTS, the largest text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving its natural speaking ability — Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” … | Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at The Shotline, a project using ElevenLabs' tech to create audio deepfakes of kids killed in gun violence, to place AI-generated calls to US lawmakers — Grieving parents made these audio deepfakes to stir the emotions of lawmakers. But they also mark a new era for artificial intelligence.
More: The Shotline, Associated Press, The Verge, The Guardian, The Hill, Engadget, The Wall Street Journal on YouTube, Mashable, March For Our Lives, and NPR
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Forums: r/aiwars and r/Futurology
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at robots.txt, a good will-based social contract governing the behavior of web crawlers, as experts call for more rigid tools for managing AI crawlers — For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data … | Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia passed Alphabet on February 14 as the third most valuable US company and the world's fourth with a market cap of ~$1.83T, one day after overtaking Amazon — - Chip giant is up 49% in 2024, adding $602 billion in value — Market cap of $1.83 trillion exceeds Alphabet's $1.82 trillion| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI details Stable Cascade, a new image generation model built on the Würstchen architecture, which improves performance and accuracy compared to SDXL — Stability AI, the company behind the popular Stable Diffusion text-to-image generative AI technology is now previewing …
More: Stability AI, The Verge, Benzinga, Decrypt, and Android Police
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| The Information: |
Sources: Together AI, which helps developers access Nvidia server chips to train AI models, is raising $100M+ led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1B+ valuation — Nvidia's hot streak with artificial intelligence chips, which have been in high demand globally, is also lifting a slew of companies that resell the chips.| Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Italian app developer Bending Spoons raised $155M from Baillie Gifford and more at a $2.6B valuation, after raising $100M in 2023, and seeks M&A deals — - Italian app developer has raised $155 million in new funding — Company on track to generate $500 million in sales this year| Dietrich Knauth / Reuters: |
A US judge approves Genesis' plan to sell ~$1.6B in Grayscale crypto trust shares to repay creditors, including 35M GBTC shares, worth ~$1.38B — Bankrupt crypto lender Genesis Global on Wednesday received permission from a U.S. court to sell about $1.6 billion in Grayscale cryptocurrency trust shares …
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| Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
Omdia: South African streaming company Showmax had 2.1M subscribers in Africa at the end of November 2023, ahead of Netflix's 1.8M and Amazon Prime Video's 300K — Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO … | M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Zuckerberg makes valid points on the Quest 3 being better overall than the Vision Pro today, but he risks having his own “Ballmer laughs off the iPhone” moment — Here we go again: … Look, I actually don't disagree with Mark Zuckerberg's overall stance here.
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LinkedIn: Santeri Suominen, Brian Snyder, Steve Nouri, and Max Lockie
Forums: Hacker News, r/StockMarket, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Leaked Google documents detail Goose, a Gemini-based LLM designed for internal use to help employees write code faster, as part of an AI-driven efficiency push — - Google has an internal large language model named Goose, designed to make employees more productive.| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Extremely Hardcore book excerpt: how Elon Musk's decision to impose rate limits on Twitter in summer 2023 helped upsell Blue, as he prepared to launch xAI — Last summer, Elon Musk began rate-limiting the number of tweets users could see on Twitter. Here's the real reason why.| Brian Fung / CNN: |
The prospects of a wide-ranging AI bill in the US in 2024 are rapidly dimming, despite Senator Chuck Schumer's push to put regulation at the top of the agenda — Artificial intelligence is already sowing chaos and confusion in US elections — from a bogus robocall impersonating President Joe Biden … | Financial Times: |
A look at OpenAI's business model, as the company works to more than double its yearly run rate by 2025; ChatGPT Enterprise now has 300+ paying customers — The AI startup is one of the fastest-growing companies in history, but questions remain about the long-term viability of its revenue streamSponsor Posts
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