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Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations — / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’
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| Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net: |
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| Mariam Sunny / Reuters: |
Neuralink opens enrollment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, which is expected to take about six years to complete — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta expands its Meta Verified program to businesses on Facebook and Instagram in select geographies, starting at $21.99 per month per page on either service — Meta announced today that it is expanding Meta Verified to businesses after first launching it for creators in March.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days — Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
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| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his decision to exit the board, a reluctance to go public, and more — The grocery delivery giant's founder and former CEO speaks exclusively to Forbes about his decision to exit the board …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company's AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies — In its ongoing effort to make its AI systems more robust, OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative — At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max review: USB-C, lighter, nicer to hold, a useful Action Button, and camera improvements, but no 5x telephoto on the smaller Pro — Apple didn't choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. … There are very few surprises from new smartphones these days.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Bard's “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with supporting or contradicting information found by Search — Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search? — Today let's talk about an advance in Bard …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to hire 250K US staff to help manage the holiday rush, up from 150K in 2022, and bumps warehouse and delivery workers' average pay to $20.50/hour — - Amazon said Tuesday it's hiring 250,000 employees in the U.S. to help manage the holiday rush.
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| Ehren Kret / Signal: |
Signal announces PQXDH, a new cryptographic specification meant as a first step to advance quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol — The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world.
More: Cybernews.com, Signal, and The Hacker News
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/Android, and r/signal
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
An Uber executive warns the EU's Platform Work Directive designating gig workers as employees will result in Uber closing in hundreds of cities and price hikes — Prices paid by consumers would also rise if Brussels enacts Platform Work Directive, says Uber's European chief| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US sees no evidence that China-based SMIC can make the 7nm Kirin 9000s chips in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro “at scale” — - Raimondo says she was ‘upset’ at phone release during visit — US probing new chip, which raised questions on export limits
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| Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
Intel says Emerald Rapids, its fifth-gen Xeon chips, will arrive on December 14, and announces a Sierra Forest Xeon processor with 288 cores launching in 2024 — Intel has unveiled its brand-new Xeon CPU roadmap which reveals three product families as a part of the Birch Stream platform.
More: Tom's Hardware, The Next Platform, TechPowerUp, Data Center Knowledge, ExtremeTech, and ServeTheHome. Forums: r/hardware
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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