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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise; the phones are in early development and not set for production in 2024 or 2025 — Apple is building prototypes of at least two iPhones that fold widthwise like a clamshell, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Apple partners with University of California researchers to release open-source AI model MGIE, which can edit images based on natural language instructions — Apple has released a new open-source AI model, called “MGIE,” that can edit images based on natural language instructions.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
OpenAI says DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to images with C2PA metadata but acknowledges the metadata can “easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally” — OpenAI's image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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| Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Apple Vision Pro teardown: 50 Vision Pro pixels fit into a single iPhone 15 Pro pixel, the display is not technically 4K, has a ~100° field of view, and more — After the whirlwind of team activity that was our initial Vision Pro teardown, we've been digging much, much deeper into those dual displays …
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| Chainalysis: |
Ransomware payments in 2023 hit a record $1.1B, up from $567M in 2022 and $983M in 2021, after a major escalation of the frequency, scope, and volume of attacks — The Chainalysis 2024 Crypto Crime Report — Coming soon — In 2023, ransomware actors intensified their operations …
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| Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: |
Disney begins emailing Disney+ subscribers about TOS changes that will make sharing accounts harder, days after sending out similar notices to Hulu subscribers — Today, Disney Plus began sending out emails informing subscribers about new changes to its terms of service that will …
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| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$36.7B, net income down 69% YoY to ~$2B, Taobao and Tmall revenue up 2% YoY to ~$18B, and approves a $25B share buyback — - The move may appeal to some investors as growth plateaus — Alibaba is grappling with market and internal uncertainty| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
An interview with Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, who runs 2,000+ AI-generated news sites, often hosted on popular, dormant domains, and claims to have human editors — Serbian DJ turned internet entrepreneur Nebojša Vujinović Vujo floods abandoned news sites with AI-generated articles.| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center says Iran's cyber operations in Israel show how Iran could target the 2024 US elections, including fake news websites — Tactics are more sophisticated and supported in greater numbers — Iran's anti-Israel cyber operations are providing a window … | Mozilla Foundation: |
An in-depth look at Common Crawl, the 9.5PB web crawl archive dating back to 2008 run by a small nonprofit, its role in generative AI, its dataset, and more — Common Crawl's Impact on Generative AI — Common Crawl's mission: Enabling others to work like Google — Common Crawl's data: Machine scale analysis| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.9B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $37.6B, a $1.9B net income, 150M MAUs, and first full-year operating profit of $1.1B — Ride-hailing app beats forecasts and boasts of ‘inflection point’ — Uber has reported its first full year of operating profits …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Trade group CISPE, representing Amazon and 26 EU cloud providers, is working with Microsoft to try to resolve EU antitrust concerns over its licensing practices — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is in talks with CISPE in an attempt to resolve its European Union antitrust complaint about the U.S. software … | Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 30% YoY to $749.9M, bookings up 25% YoY to a record $1.1B, DAUs up 22% YoY to 71.5M, and $2.8B in 2023 revenue; RBLX jumps 13%+ — - Roblox reported results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year that beat consensus estimates on the top and bottom lines.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Google Maps for Android to overlay the weather and air quality index when browsing the map layer, a feature the iOS app has had for some time — Like the iOS app, Google Maps for Android now overlays the weather and AQI when you're browsing the map layer.
More: ZDNet, Android Police, autoevolution, Sammy Fans, PhoneArena, Business Standard, Android Central, Android Authority, and The Verge. Forums: r/Android
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Smaug-72B, a Qwen-72B-based open-source LLM released by Abacus AI, tops the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard and outperforms GPT-3.5 on several benchmarks — A new open-source language model has claimed the throne of the best in the world, according to the latest rankings from Hugging Face …
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| Alexandre Rajbhandari / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based payments company Worldline plans to lay off around 8% of its global workforce, or ~1,400 jobs, as it seeks to cut annual costs by €200M from 2025 — - Company seeks to cut annual costs by €200 million from 2025 — Worldline employs about 18,000 staff in more than 40 countries
More: Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Inside Zuzalu, a co-living experiment organized by Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro in 2023, as the techno-utopian “Network State” concept inspires more projects — Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in? — I.| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI, DeepMind, and others seek clarity over how the UK's AI Safety Institute is testing their AI models, timeframe, and the feedback process — OpenAI and DeepMind want Britain's new AI safety institute to speed up evaluations of latest models — The world's biggest artificial …
More: The Hill, U.S. Department of Commerce, The Verge, MSPoweruser, and NBC Bay Area. X: @cristinacriddle
| Financial Times: |
A German court sides with US-based R2 Semiconductor over Intel in a patent infringement suit; a source says the ruling could lead to a ban on HP and Dell sales — US chipmaker plans to appeal against decision that could lead to ban on sale of certain HP and Dell products| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware — The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.
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