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Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft release Speedometer 3.0, a benchmark to “create a shared understanding of web performance”, after Speedometer 2.0 in 2018 — Speedometer has long been Google's preferred benchmark, previously noting how it's the “most reflective of the real world” when comparing JavaScript performance.
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Analysis: TikTok app code shows a separate TikTok Photos app, a potential Instagram rival that syncs with the main app and may launch “soon” on iOS and Android — Tiktok has dominated the short form video market from a long time and other platform like Instagram and YouTube copied … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta sues ex-VP Dipinder Singh Khurana for allegedly stealing documents related to employee pay and private contracts before leaving for a stealth AI startup — - Khurana allegedly took employee pay docs and private contracts — Meta says eight employees followed Khurana to new startup| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US teens: 38% say they spend too much time on their phone, vs. 27% for too much social media; girls are more likely to report too much phone time — Most teens at least sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don't have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
As Google removes nonconsensual deepfake porn video URLs after complaints, experts urge Google to remove the biggest deepfake sites from search results entirely — Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web.
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| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
A profile of several AI “doomers”, including AI Impacts researcher Katja Grace, and “effective accelerationists”, as both make arguments about the future of AI — Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are storing, instead of selling, second-hand chipmaking machines over fears of breaking US export controls and sanctions — Samsung and SK Hynix have been storing used machines in warehouses as US-China tensions rise — Samsung and SK Hynix … | Max Ramsay / Bloomberg: |
EU countries reach a compromise deal on gig economy workers' rights, breaking a logjam by letting states make decisions; EU Parliament and members must approve — - Uber says new rules will ‘maintain the status quo’ for workers — Regulation leaves each country to set own employment criteria
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Airbnb will no longer let hosts use indoor security cameras, starting April 30, citing renters' privacy; previously, cameras in common areas had been allowed — Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to use indoor security cameras, regardless of where they're placed or what they're used for.
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| Reuters: |
An Autopilot trial over a fatal 2018 crash, starting next week, may show Tesla did not study how fast drivers can retake control, testing Tesla's safety claims — Six weeks before the first fatal U.S. accident involving Tesla's Autopilot in 2016, the automaker's president Jon McNeill tried … | Elijah Nicholson-Messmer / Bloomberg: |
CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B — - Last week saw a record $2.7 billion flow into crypto assets — Spot Bitcoin ETFs, upcoming Bitcoin halving help drive surge
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| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Sources: Apple is testing an AI-powered ad tool that automatically decides where to place ads within the App Store, similar to Google's Performance Max ad tool — - Apple is testing a new AI-powered tool for optimizing App Store ad campaigns. — The tool mimics Google's Performance Max …
More: 9to5Mac, Trusted Reviews, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, and Daring Fireball
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