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June 22, 2024, 11:40 AM

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Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Court filings show how Zuckerberg and other Meta execs played down risks to young users, while rejecting staff pleas to bolster guardrails and hire more staff  —  In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness …
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Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books  —  Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.  —  As a result of book publishers successfully suing …
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers  —  The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup …
Bloomberg:
Apple will withhold the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and more in the EU this year, citing concerns about DMA's interoperability requirements  —  - Firm says it'll withhold Apple Intelligence from EU this year  — Big Tech firm cites concerns over EU's Digital Markets Act
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Craig Trudell / Bloomberg:
Source: a group that claims to have hacked car dealership software provider CDK Global has demanded tens of millions of dollars in ransom, and CDK plans to pay  —  - Eastern European cybercrime group demanding extortion payment  — CDK down for several days as dealerships experience fallout
Washington Post:
As power needs of AI push emissions up, tech companies explore experimental clean energy projects such as atomic fusion and futuristic geothermal power plants  —  As power needs of AI push emissions up and put big tech in a bind, companies put their faith in elusive — some say improbable — technologies.
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Dylan Martin / CRN:
Q&A with AMD executive Forrest Norrod on increasing AI investments, releasing accelerator chips at a faster cadence, AMD's open standards approach, and more  —  In an interview with CRN, AMD executive Forrest Norrod talks about how the company is “dramatically” increasing investments …
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How Embracer's layoffs and project cancellations gutted Fishlabs, a promising studio that now lives on as a cross-dev team supporting other Embracer companies  —  The exclusive inside story of Chorus developers Fishlabs, from Project Black to Project White  —  A phoenix is a mythological firebird …

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