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A leaked internal Google database tracking thousands of privacy and security issues from 2013 to 2018 details a myriad of data management mistakes Google made — Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it is testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling — Instagram confirmed it's testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media. These new ad breaks will display a countdown timer …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Sony unveils a $60 PC adapter for the PlayStation VR2, adding PC support to the PS5-exclusive headset, launching on August 7 with support for all Steam VR games — The PlayStation VR2's PC adapter is now official. Just a few days after a certification revealed that Sony was working on the adapter …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed” — The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.
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Threads: @noise.in.vacuum, @documentingmeta, and @carnage4life. Mastodon: @randahl@mastodon.social. X: @iaponomarenko
Forums: Hacker News and r/Destiny
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it has donated another $25M to the pro-crypto Fairshake SuperPAC; Fairshake has raised ~$161M for 2024's US election from a16z, Ripple, and others — Coinbase followed Ripple and a16z in each giving a new $25 million to their political action committee, Fairshake … | Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Qualcomm claims Snapdragon chips will come to “all PC form factors” including desktops, and Snapdragon X Elite has 2.6x the performance per watt vs. Apple's M3 — The PC Reborn — Qualcomm CEO Christiano Amon has taken the stage at Computex Taipei and detailed the company's AI advances …
More: COMPUTEX TAIPEI on YouTube, MSPoweruser, PCWorld, SoyaCincau, Android Headlines, TechRadar, Digital Trends, and XDA Developers. Forums: r/hardware
| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Sources: Microsoft is laying off hundreds of employees in Azure; one source estimated the Azure for Operators team cuts involved as many as 1,500 staffers — - Microsoft is cutting hundreds of jobs from the Azure business, sources say. — The layoffs impact Azure for Operators and Mission Engineering teams.
More: Reuters, GeekWire, CRN, The Information, CNBC, and New.blicio.us
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD unveils four new Zen 5 architecture-based Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs, set to launch in July 2024, claiming 16% more instructions per cycle over Zen 4 — During AMD's Computex 2024 kick-off keynote, AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, officially unveiled and announced the company's next generation of Ryzen processors.
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X: @patrickmoorhead, @lisasu, @capframex, @aschilling, @aschilling, @tomwarren, and @lyserberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/Amd, r/pcmasterrace, r/technology, r/hardware, and r/Amd
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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Sources: LoanSnap, an AI mortgage startup that raised ~$100M, has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo, and state and federal agencies — The company's backers include Reid Hoffman, Richard Branson and the Chainsmokers — AI mortgage startup LoanSnap is facing …
X: @sokane1, @sokane1, @dominicmadori, and @sokane1
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Antenna: Spotify users are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services in the US, with a ~2% monthly churn rate, similar to Netflix — Its customers are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services. — Good afternoon from Chicago … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on AI features, the AI pitch, video calls, layoffs, LLMs, solving hallucinations, Zoom 6.0, Microsoft Teams, digital twins, and more — Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
Mastodon: @tante@tldr.nettime.org, @thomaswilburn@toot.cafe, and @ernie@writing.exchange
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and filings detail Sam Altman's investment portfolio; Altman and his venture funds have invested in 400+ companies, and his holdings are worth $2.8B+ — Many companies backed by CEO do business with the ChatGPT maker and benefit from the AI boom driven by the blockbuster startup, raising questions of conflicts
More: WinBuzzer, GeekWire, Quartz, and Business Insider
LinkedIn: Jennifer Pierce, PhD and Dr. Jeffrey Funk
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Amazon details Project PI, which is active in several warehouses and uses computer vision to detect if products are damaged or don't meet buyers' criteria — Amazon's Project PI, or “Private Investigator,” setup combines generative AI and computer vision to “see” damage on products or determine …
More: About Amazon, Maginative, Amazon Science, TechSpot, Chain Store Age, and Cord Cutters News. X: @amazonscience
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