Month: April 2023

Twitter says it will show labels on tweets that have limited visibility for potentially violating its hateful conduct policy (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitter says it will show labels on tweets that have limited visibility for potentially violating its hateful conduct policy  —  Twitter is introducing new labels it will show on tweets the company limits for breaking its rules.  The company occasionally restricts tweets that violate …

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A look at autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT and BabyAGI, which perform multistep tasks by iteratively taking output from GPT-4 and feeding it back into itself (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A look at autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT and BabyAGI, which perform multistep tasks by iteratively taking output from GPT-4 and feeding it back into itself  —  AutoGPT and BabyAGI run GPT AI agents to complete complex tasks iteratively.  —  Since the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 API …

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Spotify plans to drop its paywall on some of Gimlet’s podcasts and change its exclusivity rules in the coming months; Spotify acquired Gimlet for $230M in 2019 (Max Tani/Semafor)

Max Tani / Semafor: Spotify plans to drop its paywall on some of Gimlet’s podcasts and change its exclusivity rules in the coming months; Spotify acquired Gimlet for $230M in 2019  —  Staff at the podcast studio Gimlet staff have been told in recent weeks that Spotify plans to drop its subscription wall around some

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Spotify is losing its audiobooks chief

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify is losing another talk content executive. The Verge has learned that Nir Zicherman, who leads the company’s new audiobook vertical, will be leaving the company this year. He will depart as one of the last remaining executives who built Spotify’s podcasting business. Zicherman co-founded podcast creation and

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PUF Away for Hardware Fingerprinting

Despite the rigorous process controls for factories, anyone who has worked on hardware can tell you that parts may look identical but are not the same. Everything from silicon defects to microscopic variations in materials can cause profoundly head-scratching effects. Perhaps one particular unit heats up faster or locks up when executing a specific sequence

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Sources: Tel Aviv-based QuaDream is shutting down, after Microsoft and Citizen Lab said its mercenary spyware is being used to hack journalists and others (CTech)

CTech: Sources: Tel Aviv-based QuaDream is shutting down, after Microsoft and Citizen Lab said its mercenary spyware is being used to hack journalists and others  —  It was reported last week that the Israeli firm’s hacking tools have been used against journalists, opposition figures and advocacy organizations across at least 10 countries

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Adobe announces upgrades to its Firefly generative AI tools, allowing video editors to add effects, boost color levels, and more using natural language prompts (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: Adobe announces upgrades to its Firefly generative AI tools, allowing video editors to add effects, boost color levels, and more using natural language prompts  —  Less than a month after debuting its new suite of Firefly generative AI editing tools, Adobe announced Monday that it is already working …

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Apple launches its Apple Card Savings account, letting users deposit Daily Cash rewards into a 4.15% high-yield account, after announcing it in October 2022 (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Apple launches its Apple Card Savings account, letting users deposit Daily Cash rewards into a 4.15% high-yield account, after announcing it in October 2022  —  Months after its first announcement, Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users, with users able to route Daily Cash rewards …

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