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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft releases an updated Bing app on iOS and Android in preview, adds chatbot support to Edge on mobile and Skype, and says 64% of searches are on mobile — Microsoft just expanded the new Bing to Android, iOS, Edge mobile, and Skype. — What you need to know
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| CNN: |
A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Twitter v. Taamneh, brought by the family of a victim of an ISIS attack in Istanbul in 2017 — What we're covering — Justice Gorsuch is still under the weather — Justice Neil Gorsuch remains ill and will be absent from the courtroom …
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| Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog: |
Takeaways from the Gonzalez v. Google oral arguments: the justices did not engage much with Gonzalez's weak core arguments after their initial dismantling — I'm going to crank this blog post out before I get swamped with press requests. My takeaways: — I did not hear 5 votes in favor of the plaintiffs' position.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Ahead of its Stream On event, Spotify launches an AI-powered feature called DJ, offering curated music and spoken commentary in a “stunningly realistic voice” — Ahead of Spotify's upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates …
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| New York Times: |
TSMC staff express doubts over the company's decision to build a $40B factory in Arizona, arguing the project distracts from R&D, showing TSMC's tricky position — Employee doubts are rising about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's $40 billion investment in an Arizona factory.
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Source: Meta plans more layoffs, possibly in the thousands, including by flattening the company's hierarchy and via more traditional cuts to projects and jobs — The Facebook parent company plans to push some leaders into lower-level roles, flattening layers of management at the social media giant
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Microsoft appears to be injecting ads for Edge on a Google.com website when users download Chrome using the latest Edge Canary preview on Windows — Microsoft sees its browser as an important aspect and entry point for the new Bing. Microsoft Edge on Windows is now showing a rather aggrieve ad …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter laid off dozens of sales and engineering staff last week, as Elon Musk demands the site's ad targeting work like Google search ads in one week — He keeps laying people off anyway. — Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week … | Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Securities lawyers say the SEC may struggle to win a lawsuit over stablecoins, such as Paxos' BUSD, because owners do not expect profits, part of the Howey test — Agency investigates whether the cryptocurrencies' issuance violated investor-protection laws — Washington's battle to rein in crypto has a new front: stablecoins.
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
A profile of Alexis Ohanian, a Reddit co-founder, Serena Williams' husband, and early investor in Coinbase and ETH, who owns 700+ NFTs and raised $500M in 2022 — Alexis Ohanian's ancestors perished during the Armenian genocide and had their assets seized.
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| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Chinese regulators told Tencent, Ant Group, and others not to offer public ChatGPT services, after state media criticized chatbots over misinformation — State media outlet blasts chatbot as spreading U.S. government ‘misinformation’ — HONG KONG — Regulators …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber launches a redesigned version of its app globally, including adding a simpler homescreen, a Services tab, and live tracking on iOS 16 — Uber is releasing an updated version of its app that aims to simplify and personalize the experience for customers.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Google claims a breakthrough in correcting errors inherent to quantum computers, related to how qubits retain information, by spreading the data across qubits — Company's latest research could signal a step towards overcoming one hurdle to the technology — Google has claimed a breakthrough …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: |
Q&A with David Wakeling of Allen & Overy, one of world's largest law firms, on using OpenAI-developed generative AI tool Harvey to write legal documents — Large law firms are using a tool made by OpenAI to research and write legal documents. What could go wrong?
Tweets: @robertjbateman, @carnage4life, @stokel, and @gteninbaum
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The FTC will not challenge Amazon's $3.49B acquisition of One Medical parent company 1Life Healthcare; Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the deal has closed — The Federal Trade Commission won't challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s $3.49 billion acquisition of One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare Inc. …
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| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill, tech privacy advocates are turning to legislation at state level to bolster online privacy, including in Illinois and NY — Tech privacy advocates frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill are looking to mine state capitals for legislative victories.
Mastodon: @alng@journa.host. Tweets: @jduballreports, @kyleschmauch, @alfredwkng, @alfredwkng, and @epicprivacy
| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …
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Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host. Tweets: @justinamash, @jameeljaffer, @dnvolz, @michaelguimarin, @wikimedia, @wikimedia, @patrickctoomey, @ashgorski, @alexanderabdo, @reuterslegal, and @idueprocess
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta releases Quest v50, adding Direct Touch, an experimental setting letting users “touch” virtual buttons and keyboards directly instead of via pinch gestures — Hand tracking on Meta's Quest VR headsets is about to get better. With the new v50 update, you'll be able to …
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Tweets: @tylrmurphy, @atla_, @lightandalchemy, @dilmerv, @mytechmusings, @sadlyitsbradley, @sadlyitsbradley, @meta, and @boztank
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft now allows six Bing Chat turns per session and 60 chats per day and plans to test chat tones for switching between focused and creative responses — Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries.
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Tweets: @yusuf_i_mehdi, @tomwarren, @fxshaw, @joannastern, @yoda, @maryjofoley, and @mikeschechter
| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
A look at Amazon India's miniTV, a free, ad-supported streaming service in its shopping app, aimed at those between 18 and 25 who can not afford a subscription — If the e-commerce giant cracks the ad-free, shop-as-you-watch code in the country, nothing stops it from rolling miniTV out internationally.
Tweets: @nilchristopher and @nilchristopher
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