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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A look at Bungie's future after it laid off 220 staffers, as current and former employees say it grew too fast and tried to develop too many projects at once — The creator of Halo and Destiny laid off more than 200 people this week including several top executives — Hi everyone.
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Forums: r/pcgaming and r/Games
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and some employees, are joining Google; Google has signed a non-exclusive agreement to use its tech — In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO CEO Noam Shazeer is returning to Google after leaving the company in October 2021 to found the a16z-backed startup.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, r/singularity, r/mlscaling, and r/CharacterAI
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Sources: Nvidia told Microsoft, and another large cloud provider, that its new Blackwell AI chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws — Nvidia's upcoming artificial intelligence chips will be delayed by three months or more due to design flaws …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/AMD_Technology_Bets, and r/singularity
| New York Times: |
The US DOJ sues TikTok, saying it collected children's data without parents' permission, knowingly let users under the age of 13 create accounts, and more — The Justice Department said that TikTok illegally collected children's data and knowingly allowed users under the age of 13 to create accounts.
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LinkedIn: Roy Smith, Samuel A.A. Levine, and Arun Rao
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms — - Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI
More: The Verge, New York Times, Benzinga, The Wrap, Reuters, Engadget, Wccftech, and NewsBytes
Threads: @gk_ventures. X: @carriecnh12, @blackamazon, @wenbbilliams, @thebronxviking, @grahamelot, @nina_metz, @mgsiegler, and @lucas_shaw. Forums: r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes — Technology stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in their investments in artificial intelligence| Eric Platt / Financial Times: |
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B — Cash holdings hit a record high as billionaire investor dumps $76bn of stocks — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has slashed …
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X: @trungtphan, @aravsrinivas, @divestech, @conorsen, @merrux, @schuldensuehner, and @conorsen
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at RayV Lite, an open-source laser hacking tool built by two hackers for less than $500 that can reverse engineer chips and exploit their vulnerabilities — The RayV Lite will make it hundreds of times cheaper for anyone to carry out physics-bending feats of hardware hacking.
X: @a_greenberg, @malwarejake, @a_greenberg, and @a_greenberg
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive — ROMhacking.net's data is moving over to the Internet Archive — ROMhacking.net, a longtime resource for video game fan translations …
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, ROMhacking.net, PC Gamer, and Gameranx
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
How AI-formulated bioweapons became a security obsession inside Washington, DC, forcing officials to take tech advances in weaponizing disease seriously — A stunt got White House officials to take technological advances in weaponizing disease seriously. — Rocco Casagrande entered …
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Huawei, which has expanded into new businesses, built out its supply chain, and boosted profit, thanks to billions of dollars in Beijing support — The Chinese telecom giant struggled at first under U.S. sanctions—then Beijing stepped in
X: @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, @jchengwsj, and @jchengwsj. LinkedIn: Liza Lin. Forums: Hacker News
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A security researcher says 4.6M Illinois voter and election records, including Social Security Numbers, were exposed by a contractor's unsecured databases — Social Security numbers, death certificates, voter applications, and other personal information was accessible on the open internet …
More: vpnMentor, The Cyber Express, DataBreaches.Net, and Hackread
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