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Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy” — Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company's most cited ML expert.
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WhatsApp announces Message Reactions, support for sharing files up to 2GB in size, and is rolling out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — After announcing to release the ability to react to messages to everyone on the latest versions of WhatsApp for Android …
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Sources: Allen Wu, who was replaced as CEO of Arm China by Liu Renchen, has refused to surrender control amid Shanghai's lockdown, where Arm China's HQ is based — Allen Wu refuses to surrender control in extraordinary corporate battle at UK chip designer — High in a Shenzhen office tower …
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Instagram to launch a pilot for NFT integrations for Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and Flow as soon as Monday, will not charge users for showcasing NFTs — NFTs from some of the most popular blockchain networks for crypto art are coming to Instagram with the announcement of a pilot … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sleuth, an AI-powered tool that integrates with software development toolchains to measure developer productivity, raises a $22M Series A led by Felicis — As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result.| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Interview with RISC-V International CEO Calista Redmond about the non-profit that oversees the open-source processor technology, industry adoption, and more — We speak to the head of ISA's governing body on industry adoption, timelines, and more — INTERVIEW The CEO of RISC-V's governing body …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How small, commercial drones in Ukraine are letting militias and others conduct cheap airborne surveillance and collect footage for war crimes investigations — From surveillance to search-and-rescue, consumer drones are having an unprecedented impact on Ukraine's defense against Russia.
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| Matt Craig / Forbes: |
Axiomatic Gaming, the parent of esports organization Team Liquid, raises $35M led by Ares Management, valuing Team Liquid at $415M — Axiomatic Gaming, the parent company behind esports organization Team Liquid, has raised $35 million in funding, the latest example of big investment money flowing into the industry.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
UK sanctions Baikal Electronics and MCST, Russia's most important chipmakers, denying them access to the ARM architecture — The UK government added 63 Russian entities to its sanction list on Wednesday. Among them are Baikal Electronics and MCST (Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies), the two most important chip makers in Russia.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
As decentralized crypto bridges prove susceptible to hacks, with ~$1B stolen in February and March, centralized exchanges are rushing out bridge-like features — High-profile hacks on crypto “bridges” — which let users swap digital tokens across blockchains — are creating opportunities … | Anthony Faiola / Washington Post: |
A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March — A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war
Tweets: @kenroth, @alfonslopeztena, and @kenroth
| David Pierson / Los Angeles Times: |
In the Philippines, presidential frontrunner Bongbong Marcos is using TikTok and troll farms to rewrite his dictator father's violent past for young Filipinos — The popular video-sharing app, TikTok, could tip the balance in the upcoming Philippine election.
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