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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
X says the platform will make Likes private for everyone this week, meaning users will no longer be able to see who liked someone else's post — Likes on the website will no longer cause PR crises for public figures. — Thanks to X showing what its users “like” on its platform …
More: The Verge, PCMag, The Register, Thurrott, notes.kvibber.com, TweakTown, PhoneArena, Business Standard, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Android Headlines, Silicon Republic, WinBuzzer, Mashable, Financial Express, Benzinga, International Business Times, Social Media Today, GSMArena.com, X, The i Paper, Quartz, and Gizmodo
X: @xeng, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @snazzylabs, @andr6wmale, @topherflorence, @dwaldenwrites, @q_review, @_cckirby, @frict, @torriangray, @mad_max_997, @mrsslrss, @srirachachau, @merrittk, @aalong64, @quantian1, @alecrobbins, @skyera1n, @castletongreene, and @xdevelopers
Forums: r/technews, r/Fauxmoi, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Verne Kopytoff / Fortune: |
In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati responded to Elon Musk's denouncement of Apple's OpenAI deal, saying OpenAI cares deeply about user privacy and security — A top OpenAI executive defended her company against Elon Musk, a day after the billionaire CEO described the integration … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo updates the software on its 672 vehicles, after one unoccupied car collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix on May 21, marking Waymo's second recall ever — Waymo is issuing a voluntary software recall after one of its driverless vehicles collided with a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona, last month, the company said.
More: Gizmodo, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Robot Report, Mashable, and Engadget
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and Slashdot
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, intended to be a smaller yet capable model on consumer GPUs, with 2B parameters, compared to SD3 Large's 8B — Bigger isn't always better, especially when it comes to running generative AI models on commodity hardware.
More: Stability AI, VideoCardz.com, Decrypt, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, and The Decoder
X: @mikeyanderson, @replicate, @emostaque, @stabilityai, and @fofrai
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
IBM and Xerox PARC engineer Lynn Conway, who helped shape the way chips are designed and undertook a gender transition in 1968, died last weekend at age 86 — - In the 1970s, Conway helped author “Introduction to VLSI Systems,” a seminal book in the field of chip design that became …
More: Michigan Engineering News, Los Angeles Times, (en)gender, and Andrea James
Threads: @dana.rasmussen.co, @nixcraft, @gwendoesscience, @jokestress, @fallon_fox, and @metamutator
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
A list of apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2024, like 1Password and LastPass, call transcription apps like Truecaller, and custom emoji apps like Newji — Apple has been on a spree of late, announcing a host of new features for its various devices earlier this week at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).
More: Nieman Lab, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, How-To Geek, and Digital Trends
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A hacker says they breached Tile internal tools, including one for processing data for cops, and stole customer data like phone numbers, addresses, and Tile IDs — A hacker broke into systems used by Tile, the tracking company, then stole a wealth of customer data and had access to internal company tools.
More: The Verge, Engadget, BleepingComputer, and Android Authority
Mastodon: @josephcox@infosec.exchange, @evacide@hachyderm.io, @freakazoid@retro.social, and @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social. Forums: r/privacy
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible — It only works for macOS 15 guests on macOS 15 hosts, but it's a big improvement. — We've written before about Apple's handy …
More: Apple Developer, Apple Developer Documentation, TechRadar, Six Colors, iMore, and MacRumors
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith … and @chockenberry@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/MacOSBeta, r/mac, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 10,287 US adults on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X: most see news content, but a minority says they are on the platform for news, except for X — X remains more of a news destination than other sites, but the vast majority of users on all four are seeing news-related content| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Jingna Zhang, the founder of anti-AI social platform Cara, about its focus on artists, having nearly 900K users, generative AI vs. creativity, and more — Artists are fleeing Meta's platforms over fears their work will be used to train AI. Photographer Jingna Zhang's Cara …
More: Silicon Republic, Business Insider, and TechIssuesToday.com
X: @knibbs, @waterslicer, and @neilturkewitz
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on co-authoring the “Attention is all you need” paper at Google, focusing on the enterprise, AI not being a bubble, and more — Enterprise is the pathway to profit, Gomez says, but maybe don't ask it to do medicine quite yet.| Benjamin Hoffman / New York Times: |
Some people are using “slop” to describe low-grade AI material in social media, art, books, and more; the term emerged in reaction to AI art generators in 2022 — A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material. — You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence.
More: The Information. X: @protectedpick, @simonw, @simonw, @arturskowronski, @northwesterncs, @palewire, @katienotopoulos, @benhoffmannyt, and @seangraf. Forums: Hacker News
| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Apple's stock closed up 7.3% at $207.15 on June 11, its biggest one-day jump since November 2022, for a $3.18T market cap, just under Microsoft's $3.22T — - The return to all-time high comes after Monday conference — Shares have underperformed most other big tech names this year
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X: @rachelmetz, @benthompson, @salexashenko, @benbajarin, @neilcybart, @markgurman, @stevesi, @seyitaylor, @markgurman, and @munster_gene. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
UAE Minister of AI and Digital Economy Omar Al Olama says fears of China using Middle Eastern countries as a proxy to overcome US AI chip sanctions are “valid” — But we're America's friends, insists Omar Al Olama — Fears that China could be using Middle East countries … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Databricks launches AI/BI, a visualization tool to let users type questions about their data to build charts and graphs, competing with Microsoft and Salesforce — - New business tool integrates generative AI for faster results — Company last year acquired a maker of large language models
More: AIM, TechCrunch, Constellation Research, Databricks, and WinBuzzer
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents detail how Elon Musk blurred boundaries with female employees at SpaceX, including having sex with an employee and a former intern — The billionaire founder had sex with an employee and a former intern, and asked a woman at his company to have his babies
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, San Francisco Business Times, Fortune, Gizmodo, Quartz, Reuters, New York Post, Dexerto, Benzinga, and Engadget
Threads: @rschmied_66. X: @nick_field90, @rebeccaballhaus, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, @lopezlinette, @goldengateblond, and @wsjbusiness
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/musked, r/SpaceXLounge, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/inthenews, r/news, and r/RealTesla
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Elon Musk withdraws his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman, filed in California in February 2024 over breach of contract and fiduciary duty — Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company's co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
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Threads: @crumbler. X: @elonmusk, @meghanbobrowsky, @apollozac, @rmac18, @lynnmdoan, and @eriqgardner
Forums: Hacker News, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/TheAllinPodcasts, r/singularity, r/news, r/musked, r/RealTesla, and r/OpenAI
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube plans to roll out its Thumbnail Test & Compare tool to all creators “in the coming weeks”, letting them test video thumbnails “evenly” across audiences — YouTube is preparing to roll out a new thumbnail testing feature to creators, which means you'll … | Diana Li / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Michael Dell plans to sell 10M Dell shares worth $1.3B, after selling $1.6B in shares earlier in 2024; Dell sold $1.7B in 1999 before the bubble burst — - Dell filed to sell 10 million shares now worth $1.3 billion — His hardware company surged this year on AI optimism
More: Benzinga
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is combining its AI-focused research centers in Toronto and Mountain View to improve operations, led by former Apple executive Murat Akbacak — - Company is combining Toronto and California research centers — Apple's Murat Akbacak will be leading the new division
More: SamMobile, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, HotHardware, Sam Lover, Android Headlines, Sammy Fans, and NewsBytes
X: @yoolimleenews and @markgurman
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