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Google partners with The Internet Archive to link to the Wayback Machine in Search, letting users view archived versions of webpages under “About this page” — Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results.| Jake Evans / ABC: |
Meta admits to scraping every Australian adult Facebook user's public data to train AI, with no opt-out option as it is not required to do so under privacy law — In short: — Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.
More: 9to5Mac, Thurrott, Engadget, The Guardian, Android Headlines, Anadolu Ajansı …, PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, Information Age, RNZ, The North West Star, The Australian, NewsBytes, The Age, The Canberra Times, The West Australian, and Federal Court of Appeal Canada
Threads: @crumbler. Mastodon: @Old_IT_geek@techhub.social, @analogfusion@mastodon.art, @marilyn@mathstodon.xyz, and @abcfeeds@rssfeed.media
Bluesky: @mattknight.bsky.social and @techviews.bsky.social
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LinkedIn: Adam Barty and Anna Johnston
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/worldnews, r/privacy, r/australian, and r/australia
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Adobe says generative AI features powered by its Firefly Video model will be available before the end of 2024 on the Premiere Pro beta app and on a free website — Users will get their first chance to try out Adobe's AI model for video generation in just a couple months.
More: Adobe Video & Motion on YouTube, The Adobe Blog, Engadget, The Verge, How-To Geek, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, Benzinga, The Decoder, Maginative, Tom's Guide, Creative Bloq, LifeHacker, Techopedia, TipRanks Financial, PetaPixel, and Axios
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LinkedIn: Saigin Govender, Alexandru Costin, Lior Shapira, Kylee Peña, and Jingwan
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky rolls out the ability to post videos of up to 60 seconds with optional attached subtitles; each post can contain one video, and adult content is allowed — Bluesky, the social networking startup now nearing 10 million users thanks to X's ban in Brazil, will now allow users to share videos …
More: Bluesky and The Verge
Threads: @grantmcconnaughey and @sarahprz
Bluesky: @mmasnick.bsky.social, @pfrazee.com, and @emilyliu.me
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, available on GitHub and Hugging Face, and via API-serving platforms Le Chat and Le Platforme “soon” — French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text.
More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Mashable, and Maginative
X: @mistralai, @sophiamyang, @danielhanchen, @maziyarpanahi, @4evabehindsota, @reach_vb, @maartengr, and @iscienceluvr. Forums: Hacker News
| Taylor Swift / Taylor Swift on Instagram: |
Taylor Swift says she's voting for Kamala Harris, noting that Donald Trump sharing an AI-generated image of her “endorsing” him prompted her to reveal her plans — Like many of you, I watched the debate tonight. If you haven't already, now is a great time to do your research …
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Threads: @renee.diresta, @willoremus, @joannastern, @daveleebbg, @naominixwrites, @mac_ryan_, @mossbergwalt, @crumbler, @brianstelter, @gaberivera, @mossbergwalt, @davepell, @brianstelter, and @drewharwell
Mastodon: @jwisser@wandering.shop, @patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot, @chris@mstdn.games, and @frankejames@mastodon.online
Bluesky: @albertsonb2.bsky.social and @atherton.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @lulumeservey, @fredericjacobs, @yoda, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity, @edzitron, @rachelmetz, @msnbc, @msnbc, @devahaz, @nicoleperlroth, @samleecole, @erratarob, @swiftonsecurity, @oneunderscore__, @ranjanxroy, @peter, @jason_kint, and @chartstswift. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sergey Brin says he's working at Google “pretty much every day” and that AI algorithmic improvements are “even outpacing the increased compute” put into models — Google co-founder and ex-Alphabet president Sergey Brin said he's back working at Google “pretty much every day” …
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X: @theallinpod, @tsarnick, @tsarnick, @edzitron, @tsarnick, @ageofalgo, and @borrowed_ideas
Forums: r/singularity, r/singularity, and r/singularity
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
A surge in alleged scams poses a serious image problem for Revolut, which faces more complaints than all its UK rivals facing authorized push payment scams — The $45 billion challenger bank says it's committed to tackling online fraud as it seeks ‘exponential’ growth.
More: PYMNTS.com and This Week in Fintech
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Riot Platforms plans the world's largest bitcoin mine in Corsicana, a former Texas oil boom town, using a liquid immersion system, despite residents' protests — A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world's largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
On Day 2 of the US DOJ's antitrust trial focused on ads, a former News Corp executive testifying as a government witness said Google held publishers “hostage” — Google's tool that lets publishers sell ad space on their websites is ubiquitous, but that's largely a testament …
More: Adweek, MediaPost, Yahoo Finance, Marketing Brew, Big Tech on Trial, AdExchanger, Adweek, MEDIANAMA, Reuters, Mumbrella, The Media Leader, The Verge, MediaPost, Digiday, New York Daily News, New York Post, and Channel NewsAsia
| Wendy Davis / MediaPost: |
A US district judge blocks Utah from enforcing the Minor Protection in Social Media Act, set to take effect on October 1, saying the law likely violates the 1A — A federal judge has blocked Utah from enforcing a new law that would have restricted social media platforms' ability to serve content to minors under 18.| Marie Dealessandri / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Seoul-based Spoon Labs, which operates an audio streamer called Spoon and a short video app called Vigloo, raised ~$89.3M from PUBG publisher Krafton — It's the firm's largest investment in a non-gaming area to date — PUBG firm Krafton has invested KRW 120 billion ($89.3 million) in streaming company Spoon Labs.
More: Game Developer, PocketGamer.biz, Spoon Labs, Insider Gaming, Forbes, and KED Global
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