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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AB 1394, a bill to hold social media platforms and other web services liable for “knowingly facilitating” commercial CSAM (Queenie Wong/Los Angeles Times)

Queenie Wong / Los Angeles Times: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AB 1394, a bill to hold social media platforms and other web services liable for “knowingly facilitating” commercial CSAM  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law that would hold Facebook-owned Instagram …

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Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company’s fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Unity CEO John Riccitiello resigns in the wake of the company’s fee controversy; Unity names former Red Hat President and CEO James Whitehurst as interim CEO  —  John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of a pricing controversy that left developers in open revolt.

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John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately

Image: Getty Images Unity, the company behind the game development engine of the same name, has just announced that its president, CEO, and chairman John Riccitiello “will retire” effective immediately. “The Board will initiate a comprehensive search process, with the assistance of a leading executive search firm, to identify a permanent CEO,” reads the press

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Appfigures: ChatGPT’s iOS and Android apps hit $4.58M total revenue in September from the $20/month ChatGPT+ plan, up from $3.81M in August and $2.74M in July (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: ChatGPT’s iOS and Android apps hit $4.58M total revenue in September from the $20/month ChatGPT+ plan, up from $3.81M in August and $2.74M in July  —  There’s some good news and bad news for ChatGPT’s mobile efforts.  On the positive side, the AI chatbot continues to see the number …

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Learning About Ferroresonant Transformers While Fixing a 1970s Power Supply

Ferroresonant (constant voltage) transformer diagram. Secondary side is kept in full saturation with the tank, keeping voltage constant. (Credit: Usagi Electric) While troubleshooting the power supply of a 1970s Centurion system, [Usagi Electrics] came across a fascinating feature of these units: the ferroresonant, or constant voltage transformer (CVT). The main difference between a regular transformer

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Google Cloud expands Vertex AI Search with features to help health care workers pull info from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google Cloud expands Vertex AI Search with features to help health care workers pull info from clinical notes, scanned documents, and electronic health records  —  – Google Cloud on Monday announced new artificial intelligence-powered search capabilities that will help clinicians quickly access information from different data sources.

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John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately

Image: Getty Images Unity, the company behind the game development engine of the same name, has just announced that its president, CEO, and chairman John Riccitiello “will retire” effective immediately. “The Board will initiate a comprehensive search process, with the assistance of a leading executive search firm, to identify a permanent CEO,” reads the press

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Learning About Ferroresonant Transformers While Fixing a 1970s Power Supply

Ferroresonant (constant voltage) transformer diagram. Secondary side is kept in full saturation with the tank, keeping voltage constant. (Credit: Usagi Electric) While troubleshooting the power supply of a 1970s Centurion system, [Usagi Electrics] came across a fascinating feature of these units: the ferroresonant, or constant voltage transformer (CVT). The main difference between a regular transformer

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A look at LinkedIn’s newsroom, which has 250 editors and writers across 30 countries and 17 languages, as the platform doubles down on news as others pull back (Jim Edwards/Press Gazette)

Jim Edwards / Press Gazette: A look at LinkedIn’s newsroom, which has 250 editors and writers across 30 countries and 17 languages, as the platform doubles down on news as others pull back  —  Linkedin’s editor-in-chief Daniel Roth explains how the platform is prioritising and promoting news.

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The Ultimate US Astronomy Roadtrip

Have 73 hours to kill and fancy a 4,609-mile road trip? Then you can check out some of the best observatories in the US (although we would probably recommend taking a couple of weeks rather than cramming the trip into three days, so you can spend at least one night stargazing at each). Matador Network

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California governor signs ban on social media ‘aiding or abetting’ child abuse

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1394, a law that would punish web services for “knowingly facilitating, aiding, or abetting commercial sexual exploitation” of children. It’s one of several online regulations that California has passed in recent years, some of which have been challenged as unconstitutional. Newsom’s office indicated

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