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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting Apple's tradeoffs, and more — Now that it can be strapped to our faces and worn in strange places, opinions about Apple's Vision Pro are flying left and right.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$25.11B, operating income up 10% YoY to ~$3.1B, meeting est., and 8.2M PS5 units sold, roughly 1M lower than projected — - Company reversing course after taking the unit private in 2020 — Underwhelming PlayStation 5 sales led to sales outlook cut
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| The Information: |
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, leaves the company; Karpathy was developing a product that he described as an AI assistant — Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's longest-serving senior industrial designer, Bart Andre, told colleagues this month that he is retiring; Andre joined in 1992 alongside Jony Ive — - Bart Andre retiring after three decades on design team — Departure marks near-complete turnover of group since Ive era
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| Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central: |
Nvidia Chat with RTX hands-on: 35GB installer, Mistral 7B and Llama 2 are 70GB, great at summarizing details and targeted questions, but no follow-up questions — NVIDIA's AI chatbot runs locally on your PC, and it works with the data you provide. — NVIDIA does a lot of interesting things around AI … | Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: |
Google's TAG says a pro-Palestinian hacking group targeted Israeli software engineers to download malware ahead of October 7, in an attack dubbed Blackatom — - Spies used ‘very effective’ tactic, spreading malware — A rare example of known cyber-activity in run-up to Oct. 7| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are already using LLMs to refine and improve cyberattacks, including Russian, North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese-backed groups — Microsoft and OpenAI are revealing today that hackers are already using large language models like ChatGPT to refine and improve their existing cyberattacks.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
OpenAI starts testing a “memory” feature that is on by default and lets ChatGPT and custom GPTs remember info about users and their conversations over time — Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth …
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo adds a Sync & Backup tool to its browser to sync passwords, bookmarks, and favorites without needing an account and says the data is E2EE — DuckDuckGo has added a new “Sync & Backup” feature to its privacy-first browser that will keep passwords, bookmarks …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
In a research paper, Apple researchers detail a new AI tool called Keyframer, which uses LLMs to animate static images through natural language prompts — Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI tool called “Keyframer,” which harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs) …
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
A Mozilla study of 11 AI romance chatbots finds that they harvest personal information extensively, and that 10 of them may sell or share the data they collect — The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Slack 10 years after its launch: early success, going public in 2019, being acquired by Salesforce, and how the service changed work culture — A decade later, it's clear that Slack changed work culture, even at companies that don't use it. … Most enterprise software is shitty.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Walmart is in talks to buy smart TV manufacturer Vizio for $2B+, as the company looks to bolster its advertising business in its battle with Amazon — Retail giant discussing a more than $2 billion deal that would boost its advertising business in battle with Amazon| Alistair Barr / Business Insider: |
A typo in Lyft's Q4 release mistakenly forecast a 500 BPS of EBITDA margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge, before the error was corrected to 50 BPS — - Lyft mistakenly forecast 500 basis points of margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge.
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| Vanessa Gera / Associated Press: |
Polish PM Donald Tusk says state authorities under the previous government used NSO's Pegasus spyware illegally against a “very long” list of hacking victims — Poland's new prime minister said Tuesday he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Waymo has issued a software fix for its cars, its first recall, after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix in December 2023 — Waymo is voluntarily recalling the software that powers its robotaxi fleet after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona, in December.| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Sen. Ron Wyden details the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign, which allegedly tracked visits to 600 Planned Parenthood locations — The details in Wyden's letter, sent Tuesday morning, reveal what's believed to be the largest publicly known location-driven anti-abortion ad campaign.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
TikTok plans to launch an in-app local language Election Centre in March 2024 in all 27 EU countries, to fight misinformation ahead of the Parliament elections — ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok said on Wednesday it will ramp up its fight against fake news and covert influence operations …
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| James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: |
How Reddit, after the catastrophic online manhunt to find the Boston Marathon bomber, quietly became a civilized place to discuss news, due to strong moderation — Twitter had been our place. Where journalists gathered and pored over news in as near to real time as possible.| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
An interview with Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen, as Tencent's Finnish mobile gaming group seeks its next big hit; Clash of Clans had $10B+ in revenue in 10 years — Mobile games maker chief Ilkka Paananen says Finnish group will explore new genres having not released a title in years
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Pocket Gamer.biz, Mobilegamer.biz, and Supercell
X: @supercell and @rmilnenordic
| Bloomberg: |
Google partners with the Environmental Defense Fund to help track and attribute methane emissions observed by the MethaneSAT satellite, set to launch in March — The tech company will work with the Environmental Defense Fund to track some of the world's most devastating and avoidable emissions observed by the nonprofit's satellite.
More: Reuters, BBC, MIT Technology Review, The Verge, Engadget, Financial Times, Business Green, and The Keyword
| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Copilot for Microsoft 365 testers question the $30/seat price and find Copilot the most useful in Teams and the least in Excel; Dow and others plan big rollouts — Artificial-intelligence aide handles email, meetings and other things, but its price and limited use have some skeptical
More: Axios, TechRepublic, and Runtime
| Alison Snyder / Axios: |
Cohere's nonprofit research lab releases its open-source multilingual LLM Aya, which the lab says can follow instructions in more than 100 languages — A new open-source generative AI model can follow instructions in more than 100 languages. … - It covers more than twice as many languages …
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