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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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Tweets: @neerajka, @amacker, and @johnreedstark
| 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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Tweets: @ajassy, @amazonnews, and @adamkovac
| 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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Meta, Road to VR, Meta, XDA Developers, BigTechWire, Android Central, TechCrunch, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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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Bing Blogs, The Verge, PCWorld, OnMSFT.com, TweakTown, Silicon Republic, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, BGR, Windows Central, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, Pureinfotech, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, PCMag, MobileSyrup, Thurrott, ZDNet, BetaNews, BigTechWire, Slashdot, Neowin, and Search Engine Roundtable
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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