Month: March 2023

Roblox will now hide advertisements from users 13 and younger, nearly a year after nonprofit Truth in Advertising filed an FTC complaint against it (Jeffrey Rousseau/GamesIndustry.biz)

Jeffrey Rousseau / GamesIndustry.biz: Roblox will now hide advertisements from users 13 and younger, nearly a year after nonprofit Truth in Advertising filed an FTC complaint against it  —  Changes come nearly a year after advertising watchdog filed an FTC complaint over company’s ad policies  —  Roblox will now hide advertisements …

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GaN Charger Teardown Reveals Value Of This New Technology

Every so often, a new technology comes along that offers a broad range of benefits over what we already have. Just as lithium-ion batteries have made nickel-cadmium cells boring and old hat, gallium nitride semiconductors are making silicon parts look unimpressive by comparison. [Brian Dipert] looked at what this means in a practical sense by

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Agreena, which uses AI-based monitoring by satellite imagery to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B, after a €20M Series A in 2022 (Mimi Billing/Sifted)

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Agreena, which uses AI-based monitoring by satellite imagery to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B, after a €20M Series A in 2022  —  The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits  —  While fingers are being pointed …

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Amazon to adapt Aaron Foley’s Boys Come First as a new series

Boy Come First’s cover art, and a photo of Aaron Foley. | Belt Publishing / AFP Photo / Jeff Kowalsky Author Aaron Foley’s debut novel Boys Come First only released last May, but Amazon is already making moves to turn its queer, Black millennial-focused story into a series. Deadline reports that Amazon’s developing an adaptation

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Google restructures virtual assistant team to focus more on Bard

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Sissie Hsiao, vice president and lead of Google Assistant’s business unit, announced changes coming to the organization. Google will be reorganizing its virtual assistant unit to focus more on Bard. A key leader from the team is stepping down. It’s no secret that one of Google’s primary focuses

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How to install the latest iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 public betas

Illustration: Samar Haddad / The Verge Last year’s iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 releases came with a host of great new features — including sweet lock screen customization options, which Verge reporter Jay Peters called one of the biggest successes of 2022. But Apple is still not done with iOS 16; iterative releases have been

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China launches a cybersecurity review of products sold in the country by US memory chip manufacturer Micron, citing national security risks (Reuters)

Reuters: China launches a cybersecurity review of products sold in the country by US memory chip manufacturer Micron, citing national security risks  —  China’s cyberspace regulator will conduct a cybersecurity review on products sold in China by U.S. memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology (MU.O), the regulator said on Friday.

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Benefits of a Project-Product Management Mindset for Government Digital Transformation

Speed or accuracy? Which is more important to a government agency during digital transformation? Focus on speed, and something could be missed. Focus on accuracy only, and the solution you need might be outdated by the time it’s completed. When you have limited time and resources, it is difficult to understand which road leads to success. Understanding

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The shape of Kirby

Image: Nintendo / The Verge Kirby developers Shinya Kumazaki and Tatsuya Kamiyama talk about the various shapes of Kirby and what we can learn from them. Continue reading…

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Sources: YMTC expects to begin production at a new chip plant in H2 2024 by relying more on domestic suppliers, boosting China’s self-sufficiency efforts (Qianer Liu/Financial Times)

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Sources: YMTC expects to begin production at a new chip plant in H2 2024 by relying more on domestic suppliers, boosting China’s self-sufficiency efforts  —  Memory-chip maker to rely on local equipment suppliers for 2024 manufacturing plans  —  Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp …

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Why the AI industry could stand to slow down a little

Haein Jeong / The Verge I. What a difference four months can make. If you had asked in November how I thought AI systems were progressing, I might have shrugged. Sure, by then OpenAI had released DALL-E, and I found myself enthralled with the creative possibilities it presented. On the whole, though, after years watching

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The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won’t buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won’t reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News: The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won’t buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won’t reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will  —  BuzzFeed isn’t ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense.  —  Pranav Dixit

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The best ways to play Tetris in 2023

Tetris Effect. | Image: Enhance Experience The new Tetris movie on Apple TV Plus plays fast and loose with facts, but there’s one thing it gets right: the game absolutely rules. Watching the movie is very likely to give you the urge to get back to moving falling blocks around until your eyes bleed. And

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Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models starting this week, regulation, and more (New York Times)

New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models starting this week, regulation, and more  —  “Am I concerned?  Yes.  Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology?  Incredibly.”

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This Week in Security: Macstealer, 3CX Carnage, and Github’s Lost Key

There’s a naming overload here, as two bits of security news this week are using the “MacStealer” moniker. We’re first going to talk about the WiFi vulnerability, also known as Framing Frames (pdf). The WPA encryption schemes introduced pairwise encryption, ensuring that not even other authenticated users can sniff each others’ traffic. At least that’s

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Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba’s strategy and engineered the company’s split from overseas, telling executives it would make Alibaba nimble (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba’s strategy and engineered the company’s split from overseas, telling executives it would make Alibaba nimble  —  Globe-trotting billionaire, in calls to executives, used his influence to push company’s plans to split into six groups

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