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GM CEO Mary Barra says the company plans to slow Cruise’s expansion and significantly cut spending at the self-driving unit in response to safety concerns (New York Times)

New York Times: GM CEO Mary Barra says the company plans to slow Cruise’s expansion and significantly cut spending at the self-driving unit in response to safety concerns  —  General Motors will “substantially lower spending” on autonomous vehicle efforts in 2024 after accidents with its self-driving taxis in San Francisco.

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Sources: British AI startup Stability AI held early-stage talks with multiple companies about a sale, as executives face investor pressure over its finances (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: British AI startup Stability AI held early-stage talks with multiple companies about a sale, as executives face investor pressure over its finances  —  – Move follows letter from investor Coatue calling for changes  — Coatue concerned about Stability AI’s financial position

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Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a new Me in 2023 feature to assign users 12 themes that describe their listening, available on mobile and desktop (Ann-Marie Alcántara/Wall Street Journal)

Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a new Me in 2023 feature to assign users 12 themes that describe their listening, available on mobile and desktop  —  The listening recap, available Wednesday, takes over social media every year  —  It’s the time of year many people have been anxiously

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Spotify details the most-streamed albums, songs, and podcasts in 2023: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, Flowers by Miley Cyrus, The Joe Rogan Experience, and more (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety)

Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: Spotify details the most-streamed albums, songs, and podcasts in 2023: Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, Flowers by Miley Cyrus, The Joe Rogan Experience, and more  —  Spotify has revealed its annual Wrapped campaign for 2023, announcing the top-streamed artists, albums, songs and podcasts in addition …

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How a group of deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, an ordeal that was further complicated by the lack of clear laws (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: How a group of deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, an ordeal that was further complicated by the lack of clear laws  —  A group of young women in a New York City suburb, horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online, took matters into their

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Google fixes the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability in 2023 in an emergency update, related to the Skia open-source 2D graphics library, found by Google TAG (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google fixes the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability in 2023 in an emergency update, related to the Skia open-source 2D graphics library, found by Google TAG  —  Google has fixed the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability this year in an emergency security update released today to counter ongoing exploitation in attacks.

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Robert De Niro criticizes Apple and the Gotham Awards, after sources say Apple cut part of his speech that was critical of Donald Trump, which he read anyway (Variety)

Variety: Robert De Niro criticizes Apple and the Gotham Awards, after sources say Apple cut part of his speech that was critical of Donald Trump, which he read anyway  —  The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor was gearing up to slam Donald Trump at Monday’s Gotham Awards, but when he took the stage …

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A look at Ayaneo’s new $199+ Retro Mini PC AM01, styled on Apple’s 1980s-era Macintosh, with AMD Ryzen chips, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge: A look at Ayaneo’s new $199+ Retro Mini PC AM01, styled on Apple’s 1980s-era Macintosh, with AMD Ryzen chips, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage  —  Ayaneo, which is mostly known for making handheld gaming consoles, just fully revealed the new Retro Mini PC AM01

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What’s the Go language really good for?

During its dozen-plus years in the wild, Google’s Go programming language has evolved from being a curiosity for alpha geeks to being the battle-tested programming language behind some of the world’s most important cloud-native software projects.  Why was Go chosen by the developers of such projects as Docker and Kubernetes? What are Go’s defining characteristics,

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Unity plans to cut 265 jobs, or 3.8% of its staff, and end its services deal with VFX company Wētā FX to focus on its “core business” (Mike Seymour/fxguide)

Mike Seymour / fxguide: Unity plans to cut 265 jobs, or 3.8% of its staff, and end its services deal with VFX company Wētā FX to focus on its “core business”  —  UPDATE: Scroll down for a statement from WētāFX:  —  Reuters is reporting that Unity Software (U.N) …

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