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FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent” — The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023 — The move means Apple has six months to make sure its tablet ecosystem complies with a raft of preemptive measures under the EU's flagship Digital Markets Act.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces Copilot Workspace, a dev environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help devs brainstorm, plan, build, test and run code in natural language — Is the future of software development an AI-powered IDE? GitHub's floating the idea.
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| Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: |
Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam — The Manor Lords video game released this weekend by a small independent studio in Poland has sold more than a million copies …
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so — Seven years ago, a cyberattack left many of the most popular websites based in the United States inaccessible.
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles — Agreement comes as Microsoft-backed start-up seeks data from reliable sources to train latest artificial intelligence models
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS rejects Elon Musk's appeal to overturn an SEC agreement from 2018 to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his X posts about Tesla, without giving a reason — - Justices turn away free speech arguments without comment — Musk accord requires lawyer pre-approval of his Tesla posts
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, allowing ChatGPT Plus users to tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats — Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 — Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tesla partners with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions to clear a key hurdle to launch Full Self-Driving in China, after Elon Musk's visit — - Carmaker to partner with tech giant Baidu on maps, navigation — Musk sought clearance from Beijing for potential revenue boost
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| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops … | Nick Bonyhady / Australian Financial Review: |
PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computer, raises $940M from Australia and Queensland governments, via share purchases, grants, and loans — Australia will invest $940 million in Silicon Valley start-up PsiQuantum in a major bet that it will build the world's first commercially useful quantum computer in Brisbane.
More: iTnews, The Quantum Insider, and pv magazine International
| Philip Lagerkranser / Bloomberg: |
Tether says it invested $200M in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech, via its newly established VC arm Tether Evo — - Funds to be used for roll-out of Blackrock Neurotech products — Investment will also be used research and developmentSponsor Posts
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World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
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Zoho:
AWS WorkMail is shutting down: Migrate to a secure alternative without downtime — If your organization is currently using AWS WorkMail, this probably wasn't news you were expecting, but it is something …
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