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Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs  —  Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models.  But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant

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Japan adds advanced chipmaking equipment to its export control list, a move that aligns the country with US curbs meant to keep chip tech out of China’s hands (Riho Nagao/Nikkei Asia)

Riho Nagao / Nikkei Asia: Japan adds advanced chipmaking equipment to its export control list, a move that aligns the country with US curbs meant to keep chip tech out of China’s hands  —  Tokyo aligns with Washington to keep most advanced technology out of China’s hands  —  Japan now requires export licenses for semiconductor-manufacturing

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Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads for ByteDance’s social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app hit the US App Store’s top 10 in March (Caiwei Chen/Rest of World)

Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads for ByteDance’s social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app hit the US App Store’s top 10 in March  —  Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers over ordinary people.

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A look at solid-state speakers etched from silicon and their potential applications, like helping people with hearing loss and making AR/VR objects feel real (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at solid-state speakers etched from silicon and their potential applications, like helping people with hearing loss and making AR/VR objects feel real  —  Speakers the size of an asterisk have the potential to change the way we reproduce sound, cope with hearing loss—and even make objects in

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Reddit and Bluesky are contrasting examples on how not to moderate, one centralizing in the worst way possible and the other decentralizing catastrophically (Katherine Alejandra Cross/Wired)

Katherine Alejandra Cross / Wired: Reddit and Bluesky are contrasting examples on how not to moderate, one centralizing in the worst way possible and the other decentralizing catastrophically  —  Moderating a site isn’t easy—just ask Elon.  But Bluesky and Reddit are contrasting examples of how not to do it.

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Root, On An Amazon Echo Dot

The Amazon Echo has become an indispensable device for many people unconcerned by its privacy implications. It’s easy to forget that it’s not quite a new product anymore, with the oldest examples now long in the tooth enough to no longer receive security updates. A surprise is that far from being mere clients to Amazon

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Blizzard devs know their Diablo IV patch was bad

A Campfire Chat about Diablo IV’s 1.1.0 update. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Three directors working on Diablo IV held a campfire chat livestream yesterday saying they will change how they roll out patches, after an incremental verison 1.1.0 patch for the game abruptly nerfed players’ builds (via IGN). And they promise updates

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A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill letting police use face recognition for image matching but not face surveillance, which could set the standard in the US (Tate Ryan-Mosley/MIT Technology Review)

Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review: A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill letting police use face recognition for image matching but not face surveillance, which could set the standard in the US  —  A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America.

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Norwegian robotics company AutoStore agrees to pay £200M to UK supermarket giant Ocado to settle a global dispute over warehouse patent infringements (Alastair Reed/Bloomberg)

Alastair Reed / Bloomberg: Norwegian robotics company AutoStore agrees to pay £200M to UK supermarket giant Ocado to settle a global dispute over warehouse patent infringements  —  As part of the agreement, the companies will withdraw their actions against each other, Autostore and Ocado said in separate statements on Saturday.

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