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Google confirms that it will no longer respond to geofence warrants after making changes to the way Maps stores users' location data — “Geofence warrants,” which allow law enforcement to get location data across a wide area, have become commonplace in recent years.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel 5th-Gen Xeon Platinum 8592+ review: the $11,600 64-core chip outperforms AMD's 64-core EPYC Genoa in several benchmarks, particularly in AI workloads — The sun shines brighter for Intel. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products …
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
At Intel's NYC event, Pat Gelsinger claimed that for AI, inference will become more important than training, and the industry wants to “eliminate” Nvidia's CUDA — Reframing the AI framework, away from CUDA and toward more open standards. — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger came … | Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
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| Ben Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Andreessen Horowitz says “we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values” for technology — As software has eaten the world, it has become integral to every industry and nearly every endeavor in our society.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Email: Cruise lays off 900 staff, or ~24% of its workforce, targeting non-engineering jobs, as part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company — Cruise, the embattled GM self-driving car subsidiary, is laying off 900 employees, or about 24% of its workforce … | Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Google DeepMind's FunSearch model cracks the unsolved cap set problem in pure mathematics, the first time an LLM has solved a long-standing scientific puzzle — They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage. — Google DeepMind has used a large language model …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta launches Threads in the European Union, following the US, the UK, and 100+ other countries, and adds a way for EU users to browse Threads without a profile — Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is now available in the European Union, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The US DOJ announces an indictment for four people, two of whom have been arrested, in an alleged international pig butchering crypto scam costing victims $80M+ — - Los Angeles federal prosecutors said four indictments and two arrests had been made in an international “pig butchering” scheme.
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to use Gemini across nearly its entire line of products and in Pixie, an upcoming AI assistant that will be exclusive to its Pixel devices — For Google, it was a moment to savor its apparent triumph over the doomsayers. — Last week, the company released the first version …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google plans to test Tracking Protection and blocking third-party cookies on January 4 for ~1% of Chrome users globally, ahead of a phased rollout in H2 2024 — Google is about to launch its grand plan to block third-party cookies in Chrome that many websites use to track your activity across the web for profit.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US FCC grants SpaceX a “temporary authorization” to test its cellular Starlink system by beaming data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations — The experimental authorization lets SpaceX test the cellular Starlink system by using 840 satellites to beam the data … | Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Amazon validates Project Kuiper's optical inter-satellite links, which use infrared lasers to move data around 30% faster than terrestrial fiber optical cables — Amazon's Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Filing: Apple and Corellium settle a copyright dispute dating to 2019 in which Apple tried to shut down Corellium's virtual iPhone software — Court announces a settlement after a protracted legal dispute in which Apple tried to shut down Corellium's virtual iPhone software, which is largely used by security researchers.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches a Pixel Diagnostic App and repair manuals in English in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixel devices are sold — Besides the new Repair Mode introduced with Android 14 QPR1 and the December Feature Drop, Google is widely launching …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
People's confusion whether Dropbox data will be used as training data for OpenAI resembles the conspiracy theory that Meta spies on users through microphones — Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
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| Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired: |
A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg's 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker.
Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @jackmjenkins, @katiedrumm, @kylebrussell, and @jtemperton. Forums: Hacker News
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: LinkedIn shelves its effort, announced in 2019, to relocate its data centers out of its physical facilities and into Azure, a setback for Microsoft — - LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services.
More: The Information, Runtime, Tech Monitor, The Register, Neowin, and DatacenterDynamics
| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI details how its Superalignment research team is exploring ways to control stronger AI models like GPT-4 using weaker supervisor models like GPT-2 — The “superalignment” team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.
More: OpenAI, MIT Technology Review, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Baseline, and IEEE Spectrum
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Toy startup Curio launches three AI-powered plush toys, including one called Grok, that use OpenAI's tech to converse with children and are voiced by Grimes — Grok is the first in a line of toys from start-up Curio intended to allow kids to converse with an AI chatbot| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a generative AI background editing tool in the US, letting users change the background for their Stories using text prompts — Instagram introduced its generative AI-powered background editing tool to U.S.-based users Wednesday. — Meta's lead for generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle posted …
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