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Wearables with powerful AI models would be a much more profound invasion of personal privacy than what we have today with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Wearables with powerful AI models would be a much more profound invasion of personal privacy than what we have today with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri  —  AI is going into pendants and glasses.  That could become a profound new invasion of privacy that makes us all more guarded.

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Spice Up Your Earrings With Microelectronics

We’ve covered [mitxela] in the past and if you know him, you’ll likely know him for putting the micro in microelectronics. This year, he’s at it again with his LED Industrial Piercing. This tiny PCB is really pushing the limits of fabrication Inspired by the absolutely tiny 0402 LEDs and industrial piercings, [mitxela] started thinking

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Bluesky releases a public web view, allowing users to view posts on the platform without being logged in, and unveils a new logo with a butterfly (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Bluesky releases a public web view, allowing users to view posts on the platform without being logged in, and unveils a new logo with a butterfly  —  Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t need to be logged in to be able to see posts on

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Substack brands itself as avoiding value judgments, but its justification for allowing certain offensive speech is full of value judgments, chosen to make money (Ken White/The Popehat Report)

Ken White / The Popehat Report: Substack brands itself as avoiding value judgments, but its justification for allowing certain offensive speech is full of value judgments, chosen to make money  —  Dealing With Nazis, Or Not, Can Be A Brand.  Substack’s Monetizing It.  —  Substack has Nazis, because of course it does.

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Will We Recycle FPGAs In The Future?

If you really want to look at how much something costs, you need to look at total cost of ownership, not just the sticker price. Same goes for things like pollution and carbon footprint. A vehicle, for example, might have a low carbon footprint in operation but require more carbon in the manufacturing or disposal

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An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on open source AI, why AI danger is overhyped, whether AI could produce artistic work that has soul, more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired: An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on open source AI, why AI danger is overhyped, whether AI could produce artistic work that has soul, more  —  It’ll take over the world.  It won’t subjugate humans.  For Meta’s chief AI scientist, both things are true.  —  Do not preach

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A US federal judge rules that Twitter breached its contracts with its employees by failing to pay bonuses in 2022, despite promising to pay 50% of the amounts (Michael Gennaro/Courthouse News Service)

Michael Gennaro / Courthouse News Service: A US federal judge rules that Twitter breached its contracts with its employees by failing to pay bonuses in 2022, despite promising to pay 50% of the amounts  —  Current and former Twitter employees said they never received bonuses they were promised during Elon Musk’s buyout of the social

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Bulgaria ends criminal proceedings against crypto lender Nexo, finding no evidence of money laundering, tax crimes, computer fraud, or other criminal activity (The Block)

The Block: Bulgaria ends criminal proceedings against crypto lender Nexo, finding no evidence of money laundering, tax crimes, computer fraud, or other criminal activity  —  – The Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Bulgaria cleared Nexo of any criminal wrongdoing and ended its investigation into the crypto lender.

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A Google Play Services update suggests Google’s file-sharing feature Nearby Share could be rebranded to Quick Share, the name Samsung uses for a similar tool (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: A Google Play Services update suggests Google’s file-sharing feature Nearby Share could be rebranded to Quick Share, the name Samsung uses for a similar tool  —  – Nearby Share is Google’s peer-to-peer file sharing service available on all Android devices with Google apps.

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A Google Play Services update suggests Google’s file-sharing feature Nearby Share could be rebranded to Quick Share, the name Samsung uses for a similar tool (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: A Google Play Services update suggests Google’s file-sharing feature Nearby Share could be rebranded to Quick Share, the name Samsung uses for a similar tool  —  – Nearby Share is Google’s peer-to-peer file sharing service available on all Android devices with Google apps.

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Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise funding at a $100B+ valuation, and discussed raising between $8B and $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42 for a chip venture (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to raise funding at a $100B+ valuation, and discussed raising between $8B and $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42 for a chip venture  —  OpenAI is in early discussions to raise a fresh round of funding at a valuation at or above $100 billion …

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Court docs: Google considered changing its Play Store pricing model in 2021 but abandoned the plans over potential $1B-$2B losses for apps and $6B-$9B for games (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Court docs: Google considered changing its Play Store pricing model in 2021 but abandoned the plans over potential $1B-$2B losses for apps and $6B-$9B for games  —  – ‘Project Everest’ documents released in Epic antitrust suit  — Google staff says it ‘defend the status quo for a few months’

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