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| Intel: |
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94 — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.
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| Yoel Roth / Techdirt: |
Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but forcing it to divest its US operations could undermine TikTok's ability to fight adversarial threats — from the when-government-demands-backfire dept — Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting …
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| Jameel Jaffer / New York Times: |
A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users — The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change.
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| Gary Price / LJ Infodocket: |
A federal judge decides in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending program — This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible. — This coverage is free for all visitors.
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI, with performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, more — The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.
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| Financial Times: |
In his first visit to China since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple's “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid Apple's moves to diversify from the country — Chief executive's visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft threatens to cut rivals' Bing search index access if they use it for their AI chat tools and warns at least two customers of violating terms — Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers' personal info — OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM which the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford's Alpaca model — Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space …
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Kasey Uhlenhuth and Sourabh Agrawal
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| Irregular Ideas: |
LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry — There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A researcher finds Verification settings in Twitter's app showing that the company may be working on letting Blue subscribers hide their blue checkmark — Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription.
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| TechCrunch: |
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| Lisa Baertlein / Reuters: |
A look at Amazon's efforts to offset its shipping costs by raising Prime subscription prices, increasing the minimum purchase free shipping threshold, and more — There is no such thing as free shipping. — Even so, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other online retailers who use so-called free delivery … | Georgia Gee / The Intercept: |
An investigation finds US homeowners associations teaming up with police to install Flock Safety's license plate surveillance cameras, without telling residents — At a city council meeting in June 2021, Mayor Thomas Kilgore, of Lakeway, Texas, made an announcement that confused his community.
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