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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by committing to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate — Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Elon Musk says that X plans to remove preview headlines from posts linking to articles, so that the previews show only the article's lead image and the URL — X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service …
More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, PCMag, The Hill, ZDNet, The Verge, Deadline, New York Post, Gizmodo, Politico, Engadget, Techdirt, PhoneArena, Neowin, Social Media Today, Mashable, WinBuzzer, Insider, Livemint, The Wrap, Android Headlines, TechRadar, and Techaeris
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X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @xdaily, @kyliebytes, @lum_, @lexnfx, @lauraloomer, @kyliebytes, @yashar, @rmac18, @tomcoates, @beijingpalmer, @dandrezner, @pattymo, @mcwm, @jen_mcfadden, @daveleebbg, @kyliebytes, @annevedingell, @parismarx, @edzitron, @iwriteok, @kronykal, @whstancil, @kyliebytes, @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, @ivanthek, @karaswisher, @beijingpalmer, @cit_uprising, @killedbygoogle, @erinkwoo, @yashar, @kyliebytes, @jeffsharlet, @kwalkertweets, @kyliebytes, @michaelehayden, @lauraloomer, @mollyjongfast, @petersterne, and @phil_lewis_
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/inthenews, and r/TheTwitterEnd
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
More: Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Livemint, Business Today, The Economic Times, Techdirt, and Engadget
Forums: r/technology, r/AnythingGoesNews, and r/inthenews
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta plans to let Instagram and Facebook users in the EU opt out of its recommendation algorithms for Reels, Stories, Search, and more, to comply with the DSA — Instagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta's recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today.
More: Meta, CyberScoop, Gizmodo, BGR, PetaPixel, Cybernews.com, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, Mashable, and Engadget
Mastodon: @gedankenstuecke@scholar …. Bluesky: @andipalmur.bsky.social. X: @metanewsemea and @kpmacleod
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A look at the dire state of Americans' privacy, worsened by credit bureaus' data policies; Telegram bots sell troves of personal info on targets for ~$15 in BTC — Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus.
More: New York Times. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @josephfcox, and @realhackhistory. Forums: Hacker News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a public preview of Python in Excel, which will run Python calculations in Azure, first on Windows and then other platforms “at a later date” — Microsoft is bringing popular programming language Python to Excel. A public preview of the feature is available today …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Python, r/programming, and r/Accounting
| Dave James / PC Gamer: |
Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered Ray Reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image and improve clarity, available on all RTX GPUs — Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays. — Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology.
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X: @tomwarren and @videocardz
Forums: r/Games, r/pcgaming, r/hardware, and r/pcmasterrace
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Ivanti warns of a Sentry API authentication bypass flaw being exploited in the wild, after hackers used another Ivanti zero-day to breach Norway's government — US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.
More: forums.ivanti.com, TechCrunch, Ivanti, SC Media, and Infosecurity
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta is rolling out a much more capable Threads web app over the next few days, offering the ability to post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed — Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @threads, @moskov, @brianstelter, @0xjessel, @crumbler, and @carnage4life. Forums: r/technology
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta releases SeamlessM4T, an AI model that can translate and transcribe nearly 100 languages across text and speech, and SeamlessAlign, a translation dataset — In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T …
More: Meta, Gizmodo, Meta, Reuters, The Decoder, MobileSyrup, TechEBlog, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Axios, Hugging Face, AI News, and Rest of World
X: @huggingface, @yacinemtb, and @artificialguybr
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience and Bard list “pros” beside cons when asked “was slavery beneficial” or “what's better democracy or fascism” — Large Language Models shouldn't offer opinions or advice. — If you asked a spokesperson …
More: Gizmodo, The Sun, and Ghacks
X: @sarafina7707, @weirdstrug, @blakersdozen, @geekinchief, @ttp_updates, @blakersdozen, @nobiggovduh, and @weirdstrug. Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Arm spent 3,500+ words in its 330-page IPO prospectus explaining its risks in China, its single biggest market that accounted for ~24% of its FY 2023 revenue — - Geopolitical tensions, China economic woes hurting sales — Power struggle with fired China unit CEO still casts shadow
More: Light Reading, Financial Times, Reuters, Fortune, and The Economic Times
| CNBC: |
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| New York Times: |
Three Waymo robotaxi rides in San Francisco: two avoided traffic, another didn't, the Waymo One app works like Uber, and the first experience can be confusing — On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Ramp, which offers credit cards and expense management tools, raised $300M at a $5.8B valuation from Founders Fund and others, down from $8.1B in March 2022 — - Firm raises $300 million from Founders Fund, Thrive, others — Startup valued at $8.1 billion in financing last year
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
IBM plans to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented offerings, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum — IBM's consumer-facing weather services such as Weather.com and business-oriented offerings will be acquired …
More: The Information, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Variety, PR Newswire, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, and WRAL TechWire. Mastodon: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo will close its $2.3B acquisition of identity software provider ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal — - Justice Department probed identify management software overlap — Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition … | Financial Times: |
AlphaSense: almost 40% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI or related terms in their latest earnings call, but only 16% had AI in the related regulatory filing — S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google CFO Ruth Porat and other executives have shifted roles or departed for other opportunities in recent months, as the company searches for a new identity — - A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months. — Some have wanted to seek … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material scraped without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates — Generative AI tools have empowered amateurs and entrepreneurs to build mind-boggling amounts of non-consensual porn.
X: @dlberes, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephfcox
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they are more powerful than anything else before 2023 — Nvidia's processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternativesSponsor Posts
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