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The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok — The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …
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| New York Times: |
How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more — Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers?
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026 — The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
How some parents, seeking the ability to reach their kids at all times, have become unexpected but forceful opponents of schools' attempts to ban phones — Students' phone use is disruptive, but teachers and administrators seeking a fix face an unlikely opponent — A rural school district in Colorado tried to ban smartphones.
X: @juliejargon
| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Antenna: 29M+ people, or ~25% of US streaming subscribers, canceled 3+ services over the last two years as Americans increasingly jump between services — Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.
Forums: Hacker News
| Riho Nagao / Nikkei Asia: |
Nvidia will provide the software for Japan's ABCI-Q, a hybrid supercomputer that offers quantum computing capability for drug research and other uses — U.S. chip designer to provide software for nation's quantum computing initiative — TOKYO — Japan's government-backed technology institute …
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| OatmealDome: |
Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn't allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations — Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store.
More: 9to5Mac. X: @jessebenisrael, @webimer, @webimer, and @webimer
Forums: Hacker News, r/iosgaming, and r/EmulationOniOS
| Financial Times: |
Sources: seeking an edge over China in AI deals, the Biden administration is brokering talks between US companies and the UAE, including Microsoft's G42 deal — Biden administration brokers talks between Microsoft, OpenAI Google and the UAE, as Washington seeks edge over China| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A look at Block-funded Gridless, which operates bitcoin mines in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, powered through solar power and wasted energy from a geothermal site — WATCH NOW — Jack Dorsey backed start-up taps into geothermal, hydro and solar power to run bitcoin mines across Africa
X: @kenziesigalos, @cnbc, and @jeromebailly
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Researchers: when given 15 CVE descriptions, GPT-4 autonomously exploited 87% of the vulnerabilities, compared to 0% for every other model tested — While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck — AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software …
More: Dark Reading, arXiv, Daniel Kang, and Tom's Hardware
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LinkedIn: Stanley Tsang, Michael Tchuindjang, Ben Hanson, Christopher Peacock, and Andrew Bandeira. Forums: Hacker News
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down — But CIOs aren't quite convinced that everyone needs an AI-enabled PC just yet — The biggest innovation in years has come … | David Cassel / The New Stack: |
An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more — SEATTLE-Linux creator Linus Torvalds sat down Wednesday for a “keynote interview” at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America in Seattle.
More: The Verge, PC Gamer, Cryptopolitan, and ZDNet
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