Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge After 30 years teaching law, the internet policy legend is as worried as you’d think about AI and TikTok — and he has surprising thoughts about balancing free speech with protecting democracy. Continue reading…
Read MoreSure, Kingdom Rush is fun on your phone. But why not bring it to the big screen?
Read MoreImage: Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s online multiplayer keeps making me think of Elden Ring. Nintendo’s latest Super Mario game has a clever online multiplayer mode. When you connect online, you’ll see near-invisible versions of other players throughout the game’s islands and levels as they also travel the Flower Kingdom. It’s a lot like how
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: the UK is set to reject Big Tech calls to be able to appeal rulings by the CMA’s Digital Markets Unit, expected to be able to levy fines and more — – Decision due within two months in new Parliamentary session — Ministers seek to curb dominance of major technology companies
Read MoreKenza Bryan / Financial Times: EU environmental groups criticize Apple branding new Apple Watches as “carbon neutral” and using credits to cancel out the 7kg to 12kg of emissions per unit — iPhone maker flags credentials of its latest Watch products as EU seeks to clamp down on ‘greenwashing’
Read MoreJohn Gruber / Daring Fireball: Sources: many people inside Apple do not believe its own AI/ML team can deliver on generative AI, and worry that the company will only use its own team’s output — Speaking of Mark Gurman, he has an interesting bit about Apple’s AI efforts in his latest Power On column:
Read MorePopularity on GitHub can open valuable doors for developers and startups. Underground stores sell “stars” on the platform, offering coders a way to literally fake it till they make it.
Read MoreTyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION: Tyler Cowen announces econgoat.ai, the first “generative book” that lets readers query the material and create more content, derived from a 100K-word manuscript — I am pleased to announce and present my new project, available here, free of charge.
Read MoreStefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.
Read MorePhoto by Drew Angerer / Getty Images Data workers urged lawmakers to protect their rights ahead of a Senate meeting with artificial intelligence leaders on Tuesday. In a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), workers and civil society groups demanded Congress guard against a “dystopian future” of surveillance and low wages for
Read MoreTexts is a messaging app… for all your messaging apps. | Image: Texts Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind of acquisition: it’s buying Texts, a universal messaging app, for $50 million. Texts is an app for all your messaging
Read MoreMarissa Newman / Bloomberg: Google disables live traffic conditions in Israel and the Gaza Strip for its Maps and Waze apps, a source says at the request of the Israel Defense Forces — – Israeli army asked tech giant to limit real-time information — Google took similar action in Ukraine during war with Russia
Read MoreAshley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to €3.4B, MAUs up 26% to 574M, Premium users up 16% YoY to 226M, and a €32M profit, beating estimates of a €44.6M loss — Spotify Technology SA, the music-streaming giant, reported third-quarter sales that exceeded analysts’ projections …
Read MoreDr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: Sources: prominent RISC-V startup SiFive, which raised $365M+, lays off 100 to 300+ employees, mostly in its engineering team, and guts its product portfolio — A quick one for you. I have received reports, now from multiple sources, that the major torch bearer of the RISC-V platform …
Read MoreThe number of people paying for Spotify Premium rose three percent to 226 million on a quarterly basis as the streaming service announced price increases across the US and several other global markets. Spotify’s monthly active users (MAUs) also rose to 574 million as of September 30th, a four percent increase from last quarter. Both
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Automattic plans to acquire Texts, a $15 per month messaging app that works with WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Signal, iMessage, and more, for $50M — Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind …
Read MoreReuters: Taiwan VP Lai Ching-te criticizes China’s Foxconn investigation; sources say China disclosed the move for political reasons tied to Taiwan’s January elections — Taiwan Vice President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday hit out at China over its probe of major Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) …
Read MoreThough often viewed as the “crown jewel” of the US intelligence community, fresh reports of abuse by NSA employees and chaos in the US Congress put the tool’s future in jeopardy.
Read MoreAmazon delivery drivers at hundreds of sites around the world will be asked to drive through camera-studded archways that log every dent, scratch, or damaged tire.
Read MoreAn EU government body is pushing a proposal to combat child sexual abuse material that has significant privacy implications. Its lead advocate is making things even messier.
Read MoreTitanium doesn’t mean a thing—and it definitely doesn’t mean “crack-proof.” Be smart and add some protection.
Read MoreThe use of magnetic tape and other removable magnetic media is now on the wane, leading to scarcity in some cases where manufacture has ceased. Is it possible to produce new magnetic tape if you don’t happen to own a tape factory? [Nina Kallnina] took the effort to find out. It’s probably one of those
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: Hands-on with DALL-E 3: suggests more detailed prompts, restrictive, denies art requests in the style of living artists, and shows how quickly AI is improving — To understand how quickly AI is improving, forget ChatGPT — use an image generator — Earlier this month …
Read MoreBloomberg: Byju’s CFO Ajay Goel resigns after six months as the edtech delays its FY 2022 earnings; Byju’s President of Finance Nitin Golani takes over on October 30 — – Goel will return to Vedanta after six months as Byju’s CFO — Byju’s appoints Nitin Golani as India chief finance officer
Read MoreEver wonder what’s inside an electrolytic capacitor? Many of us don’t, having had at least a partial glimpse inside after failure of the cap due to old age or crossed polarity. The rest of us will have to rely on this behind-the-scenes demo to find out what’s inside those little aluminum cans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s
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