Prior to the event, hundreds of people signed a letter asking The Game Awards’ organizers to call for a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war. They didn’t, and a rift in the industry has only grown wider.
Read MoreTrevor Milton, the founder and former CEO of electric truck company Nikola, was sentenced to four years in prison after a jury found him guilty of misleading investors about the company’s technology. Milton was also ordered to pay a $1 million fine. Federal prosecutor said Milton had lied about Nikola’s capabilities, including an assertion that
Read MoreAgence France-Presse: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan, in jail since August 2023 for allegedly leaking classified documents, uses ElevenLabs’ AI voice clone tool for a campaign speech — PTI party uses ‘voice clone’ of imprisoned opposition leader to give impassioned speech in ‘virtual rally’
Read MoreErin Woo / The Information: After Dave Willner’s July exit from OpenAI as the head of the trust and safety team, OpenAI has broken up the team, whose vetting process some devs called slow — OpenAI has overhauled how it handles the task of rooting out disinformation and offensive content from ChatGPT and its other
Read MoreRachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says its board can hold back the release of an AI model even if OpenAI’s leadership says it’s safe, and announces a new internal safety advisory group — The arrangement was mentioned in a set of guidelines released Monday explaining how the ChatGPT-maker plans to deal with AI risks.
Read MoreGalaxy Z Fold 4 (L) vs Galaxy Z Flip 4 (R) Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Samsung is starting to roll out One UI 6 to its older foldables. The update is arriving on the Galaxy Z Fold 3/4 and Z Flip 3/4. The update is available for owners in the US. It’s been
Read MoreThese days e-paper (eInk) displays are everywhere, with stores being one of the largest users of smaller, monochrome versions of these persistent displays. This has also made them a solid target of hackers who seek to not only reverse-engineer and reuse discarded ones, but also ones sold to consumers, with [Aaron Christophel] recently reverse-engineering and
Read MoreAh, soldering. It’s great for sticking surface mount parts to a PCB, and it’s really great for holding component legs in a plated through-hole. It also does a pretty great job of holding two spliced wires together. With that said, it can be a bit of a fussy process. There are all manner of YouTube
Read MoreA dispute over the patent for the blood-oxygen sensor in the two newest Apple Watch models is at the heart of the pause, which partly goes into effect on December 21.
Read MoreSpotify Wrapped 2023 summaries | Image: Spotify You were listening, walking, and playing, and they were watching. Now Spotify and other apps are repackaging that data to recap your 2023. Continue reading…
Read MoreWhen a retailer tries to entice you to buy by stating that stock is almost gone, you usually know that more stock will turn up soon enough. That isn’t true of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 if you’re in the US. Today’s shocking news about the halt of sales on both
Read MoreIn medieval Europe, many professions were under the control of guilds. These had a monopoly over that profession in their particular city or state, backed up with all the legal power of the monarch. If you weren’t in the guild you couldn’t practice your craft. Except in a few ossified forms they are a thing
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Flipboard plans to replace its entire social back end with ActivityPub and by April 2024 let any Flipboard user follow any fediverse account from within its app — Flipboard is taking its biggest step yet into the fediverse. The company announced on Monday that it is beginning to switch …
Read MoreTravel website Expedia wants to get people to start their travel search on its site with AI instead of using an external search engine. Expedia already uses AI for some customer service features and to help property owners describe their homes and hotels. The company hopes in the future that AI will help it recommend
Read MoreJoin us on Wednesday, December 20 at noon Pacific for the Superconference Badge Hack Chat with Elliot Williams and Voja Antonic! There’s a lot to get excited about when October rolls around and you know Supercon is right around the corner. Catching up with old friends, making new ones, hanging out in the alley, catching
Read MoreThe Guardian: Internal docs: TikTok gave a “protected list” to some moderators to prevent action being taken against accounts related to heavy advertisers, like Amazon — Exclusive: Internal communications suggest video platform working to protect its lucrative relationship with e-commerce firm
Read MoreHe’s not a spaceman, he’s a… business, man. | Laura Normand / The Verge I was about halfway through Lex Fridman’s interview with Jeff Bezos, which is longer than Citizen Kane, when I realized what Bezos was up to: this is a warning shot across SpaceX’s bow. “Blue Origin needs to be much faster,” Bezos
Read MoreYuvraj Malik / Reuters: Data analytics company Alteryx says it has agreed to be acquired by PE firms Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners, in a deal valued at $4.4B including debt — Alteryx (AYX.N) said on Monday it has agreed to be acquired by private-equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners …
Read MoreImage: Acura Acura’s first fully electric vehicle is now available for customers to reserve, with the first deliveries scheduled for early 2024. The 2024 Acura ZDX starts at $60,000 and will come in several trims, including the base-model A-Spec, with single-motor rear-wheel drive. A more expensive Type S dual-motor powertrain with 500 horsepower starts at
Read MoreCould 2024 be the year we get our very first Ultra iPhone?
Read MoreZack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says hackers stole personal data on 14M customers, including dates of birth, phone numbers, SSNs, and bank account numbers — Hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than 14.6 million Mr. Cooper customers, the mortgage and loan giant has confirmed.
Read MoreNow that the Journal app has finally launched with iOS 17.2, here’s how to use it.
Read MoreBloomberg: London-based luxury clothing marketplace Farfetch borrows $500M from Coupang, which will buy its assets and delist the company; FTCH dropped 90%+ in five years — – Deal scraps planned tie-up between Farfetch and Richemont — JP Morgan Chase to run marketing process for Farfetch assets
Read MoreOne-on-one mech duels in Armored Core VI are a thing of beauty — and stress. | Image: FromSoftware 2023 has been filled wall to wall with great games, but one of the low-key best is now selling for its best price. FromSoftware’s Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon is available in disc form for $39.99
Read MoreOm Malik / On my Om: UK and EU regulators blocking Adobe’s Figma deal changes the liquidity environment for startup founders and VCs, and focuses dollars on IPO-capable winners — The writing has been on the wall for sometime — the regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have been hemming and hawing …
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