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Kevin Systrom says news sharing app Artifact will shut down, after concluding that “the market opportunity isn't big enough to warrant continued investment” — To our Artifact Users and Partners: — We've made the decision to wind down operations of the Artifact app.
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Amazon sells products with titles like “I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings — Fun new game just dropped! Go to the internet platform of your choice, type “goes against OpenAI use policy,” …
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Security researchers say they warned Apple as early as 2019 about AirDrop vulnerabilities that Chinese authorities claim they recently used to identify users — Editor's Note: Sign up for CNN's Meanwhile in China newsletter, which explores what you need to know about the country's rise and how it impacts the world.
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
A joint US-China research effort finds that graphene can act as a semiconductor, but experts say graphene chips face immense manufacturing hurdles and costs — Amid global race for semiconductor supremacy, a joint U.S.-China research effort finds promise in the material, although the path to large-scale production is years away.
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
OpenAI quietly removed a ban on “military and warfare” use from its usage policy, as part of a major rewrite to make the policy “clearer” and “more readable” — OpenAI this week quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Genesis agrees to settle with the NYDFS, under the terms of which the company will surrender its BitLicense, cease operations in New York, and pay an $8M fine — The New York Department of Financial Services plans to announce later today a settlement with Genesis Global Trading …
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| Ben Cox / Ben's Blog: |
An analysis of fediverse backend hosting providers finds Germany-based Hetzner hosts 51% of the network by number of active users, followed by France-based OVH — Spurred on by the problems at Twitter, a lot of my social media timeline has “moved out” of Twitter/"X" on to what people mostly describe as mastodon or the “fediverse”.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says pre-ordering the Vision Pro requires an iPhone or an iPad with Face ID to perform a scan to help determine the right size Light Seal and head bands — Apple Vision Pro pre-orders are a week away, and Apple is sharing new information about the buying process.
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| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
To comply with DMA, Google says it will let users in the EU choose which of its services are linked starting March 6 — Some Google service features could become unavailable after unlinking. — • — TL;DR — Google will allow users to unlink the Google services they use to comply with the EU's Digital Market Act.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at CD Projekt's three-year journey to turn around Cyberpunk 2077, which has now sold over 25M units and won a major award, after a disastrous 2020 launch — Roughly three years after a disastrous launch, ‘Cyberpunk 2077,’ a videogame featuring Keanu Reeves, has now sold 25 million units and won a major award| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
GameStop plans to shut down its NFT marketplace on February 2, 2024, due to “continuing regulatory uncertainty”, after launching the platform in October 2022 — The news comes four months after the storied video game retailer axed its NFT wallet, with GameStop set to exit the space entirely.
X: @dsmart
| Tom Coates / plasticbag.org: |
Notes on Meta's plans to integrate Threads with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company seems to be trying to do cautiously and in good faith — This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta's offices in San Francisco.Sponsor Posts
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