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Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel — Google has fired 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the search giant's offices in New York and Sunnyvale …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans BloomTech from lending for 10 years over deceiving students on loans — In an order today, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said that BloomTech, the for-profit coding bootcamp previously known …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Boston Dynamics debuts an electric version of humanoid robot Atlas for commercial use, a day after retiring the hydraulic Atlas, with a pilot starting in 2025 — A day after retiring the hydraulic model, Boston Dynamics' CEO discusses the company's commercial humanoid ambitions
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| The Verge: |
iOS app store AltStore PAL launches in the EU for €1.50/year with two apps: game emulator Delta, which is also live on the App Store, and a clipboard manager — After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL is now live in the European Union thanks …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Data Protection Board says large online platforms like Meta should give users an option to use their services for free without behavioral ads — Meta Platforms (META.O) and other large online platforms should give users an option to use their services for free without targeted advertising …
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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but users can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful — AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a “kind of useful” tool justifies the harm. — /1311.164082 — 1×
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| Clint Watts / Microsoft On the Issues: |
MTAC report: foreign malign influence from Russia, China, and Iran in the US presidential election got off to a slower start in 2023 compared to 2016 and 2020 — Clint Watts - General Manager, Microsoft Threat Analysis Center — Foreign malign influence in the U.S. presidential election got off … | Amanda Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries — Apple seeks to diversify its supply chain amid rising U.S.-China tensions and global concerns of decoupling trade
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| Bloomberg: |
Huawei releases its Pura 70 series, available for ~$760 to ~$1,380; reviewers show high-end models have a Kirin 9010 chip, an update to the Mate 60 Pro's 9000s — - Huawei building out portfolio with fresh upgrades and design — New phones likely to add further pressure on iPhone in China
More: Reuters, Wccftech, Benzinga, South China Morning Post, The Verge, CNBC, Gizchina, and Huawei Central
| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
TikTok starts rolling out TikTok Notes, its Instagram rival for sharing photo and text content, for limited testing in Australia and Canada on Android and iOS — TikTok has started rolling out its Instagram rival, TikTok Notes, to select Android and iOS users “for download and limited testing in Australia and Canada.”
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
How one author gained a limited copyright for the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text” from AI, as the US Copyright Office wrestles with AI law — Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU decides Microsoft's OpenAI deal doesn't merit a formal investigation due to falling short of a takeover and Microsoft not controlling OpenAI — - Regulators don't see evidence of Microsoft controlling OpenAI — Formal probe could have risked EU order to unwind the tie-up
More: Reuters, CoinGape, CRN, Thurrott, and The Information
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
The NIST appoints ex-OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano as head of AI safety; Christiano has been criticized for “AI doomer” views and ties to effective altruism — Former OpenAI researcher once predicted a 50 percent chance of AI killing all of us.
More: U.S. Department of Commerce, Executive Gov, Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, FedScoop, FedScoop, and GovExec.com
Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social. X: @hlntnr. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/technology, r/MachineLearning, r/singularity, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to ~$18.87B, vs. ~$18B est., net income up 8.9% YoY to ~$6.97B, vs. ~$6.6B est., and expects strong AI chip demand in Q2 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday beat revenue and profit expectations in the first quarter … | CNBC: |
AWS discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers transport large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities — Amazon Web Services Snowmobile Truck — At Amazon's annual cloud conference in 2016, the company captured the crowd's attention by driving an 18-wheeler onstage.
More: DatacenterDynamics, The Register, and The Verge
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Forums: r/DataHoarder, r/aws, and Slashdot
| Thyagaraju Adinarayan / Bloomberg: |
French B2B software company Planisware raised €278M in a Paris IPO; its shares jumped up to 33% to ~€21 on its debut, giving Planisware a €1.1B valuation — - Stock opens at €21.01 versus €16 per share IPO price — France joins nascent recovery in European IPOs after drought| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Document: Microsoft added 500+ megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year — - Microsoft's data-center capacity jumped in recent quarters, a leaked internal presentation shows.
More: Fast Company and The Information
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
The US FTC announced a $7M fine against mental telehealth startup Cerebral, citing misleading data sharing and cancelation policies, misleading ads, and more — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing a $7 million fine against Cerebral, a mental telehealth firm that it says not only was careless …
More: Federal Trade Commission and MedCity News
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