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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Majorana 1, its first quantum processor that uses Majorana particles instead of electrons, with the potential to fit a million qubits — Microsoft has spent 17 years researching a new material and architecture for quantum computing.
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LinkedIn: Bruno Couillard, Chetan Nayak, Maciej Malinowski, Bela Bauer, Krysta Svore, John Preskill, Ben Blaiszik, Dr. Renata Jovanovic, Zulfi Alam, Christian Dickel, and Ramon Aguado
Forums: r/Physics, r/hardware, r/accelerate, r/technology, r/Futurology, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Microsoft says it has harnessed a new state of matter using particles called Majorana fermions, a significant breakthrough to create workable topological qubits — US tech giant says it has harnessed a new state of matter to create the basic building blocks of a quantum machine
More: arXiv.org, Ars Technica, The New Stack, Defense One, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Microsoft, PCMag, New Scientist, and BBC
| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's AGI plan, the quantum breakthrough with Majorana 1, how Muse will change gaming, AI's legal barriers, AI safety, and more — AGI is not the real benchmark: 10% economic growth is — Satya Nadella on: — Why he doesn't believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth,| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 16e with a 6.1" display, A18, 48MP camera, Apple Intelligence, the C1 cellular modem, USB-C, and no MagSafe, shipping February 28 — Apple has officially taken the wraps off of the all-new iPhone 16e. The device features an all-new design paired with the A18 chip inside …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils its first in-house cellular modem, the C1, with 5G support, to replace Qualcomm modems, saying it's the most power-efficient iPhone modem ever — After years of development, Apple has unveiled what it calls C1, its first-ever in-house cellular modem.
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Muse AI, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals, players' controller actions, or both — Microsoft Research and Xbox game studio Ninja Theory have partnered to create a new AI model for gaming.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google is removing Gemini support from the main Google app on iOS, pushing users to download the standalone Gemini app, which it launched in November 2024 — Google is informing iOS users that it will be removing Gemini support from the main Google app as it pushes users over to the full Gemini app.| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Google is bringing Circle to Search-like visual searches to its Chrome and Google iOS apps, without the Circle to Search branding, as a Google Lens feature — The feature will work within the Chrome and Google iOS apps via Lens. — • — • — • — TL;DR
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| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Valve releases a Team Fortress 2 SDK with the game's client and server code, letting users build new Team Fortress 2-based games licensed for non-commercial use — Valve has also released major updates to all Source-engine multiplayer games adding 64-bit support, scalable HUDS, “and a lot of other improvements.”
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Forums: r/Chivalry2, r/pcmasterrace, r/Games, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Erik Larson / Bloomberg: |
Trump Media and Rumble sue a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, alleging he tried to illegally suppress the US social media activity of conservative Brazilians — - Suit targets a supreme court justice who has clashed with Musk — Brazilian judge has long attacked ‘fake news,’ disinformation
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Forums: r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/worldnews, r/neoliberal, r/Brazil, and r/worldnews
| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says was “post-trained to remove the China censorship” — But shortly after its release, attention turned to how compliant the model was with Chinese censorship laws.
More: Perplexity. Bluesky: @edzitron.com. X: @bill_drexel, @aravsrinivas, @aravsrinivas, @perplexity_ai, @localghost, @nathanbenaich, @perplexity_ai, and @perplexity_ai. LinkedIn: Ipek Ceylan. Forums: Hacker News
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal updates its app with phishing protections after Google says Russia-linked hackers are duping Ukrainian soldiers via malicious QR codes for group invites — Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages.
More: Google Cloud Blog, Ars Technica, CyberInsider, Infosecurity, CyberScoop, UPI, Hackread, Dark Reading, The Hacker News, and Forbes
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/signal, r/technews, and r/craftofintelligence
| Axios: |
Sources: NIST plans to cut 497 people, including 74 postdocs and most staff at its Chips for America program; the AI Safety Institute faces an uncertain future — Exit Content Preview … - The cuts come at a time when the U.S. is looking to lead in AI development and stave off competition from China.
More: Bloomberg, The Register, and ZDNET
Bluesky: @eguango. X: @ericgeller, @hamandcheese, @jakewilkns, @stuartbuck1, @deanwball, @ashleyrgold, @alecstapp, and @ericgeller
Forums: r/technology and r/fednews
| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
Twitch rolls out changes to its violation enforcement system, including letting minor infractions expire after 90 days and serious ones in one or two years — Depending on severity, this will take 90 days to two years. — Twitch has rolled out a number of changes to its violation enforcement system.
More: Twitch Safety Center, Tech Times, Game Rant, Dexerto, and Dexerto
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Filings: US Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleads guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the telcos in 2024 — Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking AT&T and Verizon and stealing a massive trove of phone records from the companies … | VentureBeat: |
Sources: Chinese game publisher NetEase has been directed to divest its overseas holdings, starting with hit game Marvel Rivals, which laid off its Seattle team — Chinese game publisher NetEase raised fears with recent moves that it is unloading as much as all of its overseas holdings …
More: Kotaku, Eurogamer.net, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Verge, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, Wccftech, GeekWire, and Eurogamer.net
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Lambda, which offers cloud services and computers to train AI, raised a $480M Series D, sources say at a $2.5B post-money valuation, taking its funding to $863M — Lambda, a cloud computing firm specializing in providing hardware and services to power artificial intelligence development …
More: Lambda, SiliconANGLE, PitchBook, and The Fast Mode
| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: top X executives hinted to Interpublic and other ad firms that not spending on X could lead to legal woes, due to X's lawsuit against some advertisers — Interpublic recently signed an advertising agreement with the platform; other agencies are also in negotiations
Bluesky: @wikisteff, @baymama, @whetmoser.com, @mediaevan, @pppgrifter, and @chronotope.aramzs.xyz
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google launches a Gemini 2.0-based AI co-scientist tool to help biomedical scientists create novel hypotheses and speed up research, available to select testers — Lab assistant powered by artificial intelligence can help generate scientific hypotheses — Google has built …
More: Google Research, Business Today, The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, WinBuzzer, and Reuters. Forums: Slashdot
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Uber ditches commissions in favor of daily fees for auto-rickshaw drivers in India in response to increased competition from local rivals Rapido and Namma Yatri — Uber is moving away from its commission-based model for three-wheeled motorized rickshaw drivers in India in response …
More: CNBC-TV18, India Today, PC-Tablet India, Times of India, Reuters, and The Indian Express
X: @nikhilkumarks, @vivekmadani, @refsrc, @tim_clif, and @indiantechguide
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mistral's Le Chat app tops 1M downloads in just 14 days, quickly reaching the App Store's top free downloads spot in France; ChatGPT hit 500K in just six days — A couple of weeks after the initial release of Mistral's AI assistant, Le Chat, the company told Le Parisien that it has reached one million downloads.| The Block: |
The seven-day moving average of Ethereum transaction fees fell to $0.77 on February 15, a 70% week-over-week drop from $2.57 and the lowest since July 2020 — - The record-low Ethereum fees signal weak demand amid onchain volume decline. — The following is an excerpt from The Block's Data and Insights newsletter.
Forums: r/ethtrader
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram updates direct messages with translation across 99 languages, scheduling and pinning tools, music-sharing features, and more, on iOS and Android first — Instagram is upgrading its direct messages, also known as DMs, with a handful of new features that make its messaging system … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Source: 19-year-old Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt, both DOGE engineers, are now on staff at the CISA; Coristine was briefly an intern for Neuralink — DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.Sponsor Posts
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