Wall Street Journal: Sources and docs: Midwest nonprofit Veritas Society used geofenced data to serve abortion clinic visitors anti-abortion ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat — Wisconsin group used precise geolocation data until last year to direct ads to women it suspected of seeking abortions
Read MoreVibhuti Sharma / DealStreetAsia: Indian data analytics company Course5 Intelligence raised $28M in funding led by 360 ONE Asset Management at a valuation of $250M-$275M — Indian data analytics company Course5 Intelligence on Thursday said it has closed a $28-million equity funding round led by 360 ONE Asset Management …
Read MoreMike Masnick / Techdirt: A look at SCOTUS’ rulings on Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh and why explanations given for Section 230’s existence could bode well for the Internet — Our long national wait for how the Supreme Court would rule regarding Section 230 is over, and the answer is… we need to
Read MoreWhile Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel alone holds around 30 million lines, with systemd containing over one million lines on its own, which doesn’t include estimates for
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Apple restricts internal use of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other external AI tools due to concerns over potential leaks of confidential data — The iPhone maker is concerned workers could release confidential data as it develops its own similar technology
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: ESPN is laying the groundwork to offer its TV channel as a subscription streaming service by securing flexibility in league and cable provider deals — Internal project code-named ‘Flagship’ lays out shift in coming years, as talks with leagues and cable partners have begun
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia debuts the $299 GeForce RTX 4060, its cheapest 40-series card, and $499 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, available in July; the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB ships on May 24 for $399 — Nvidia has officially announced its RTX 4060 family of GPUs. This includes the RTX 4060 Ti, which will
Read MoreIllustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is building its first custom chip specifically for running AI models, the company announced on Thursday. As Meta increases its AI efforts — CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said the company sees “an opportunity to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that will be useful
Read MoreNew York Times: A group of five TikTok creators sue to overturn Montana’s law that is set to ban the app starting January 1, 2024, citing the First Amendment and more — A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the
Read MoreAshley Capoot / CNBC: Austin-based brain-computer interface company Paradromics raised a $33M Series A and says it achieved an FDA designation that offers an expedited review process — – Paradromics is part of the emerging brain-computer interface, or BCI, industry. — The company has received …
Read MoreThe Guardian: The UK plans to invest up to £1B over the next decade in its semiconductor industry; the US had pledged $52B and the EU €43B for their respective chip sectors — While the US and EU announce bigger programmes, one British startup says the government’s investment figure is less than the cost of
Read MoreTikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress in March. | Photo by Becca Farsace /The Verge A group of TikTok creators have sued to block a recently signed law that bans the app’s operation in Montana. The suit, filed last night and announced today, alleges that Montana’s SB 419 is an unconstitutional and overly
Read MoreLTE networks have taken over from older technologies like GSM in much of the world. Outfitted with the right hardware, like a software defined radio, and the right software, it’s theoretically possible to sniff some of this data for yourself. The LTESniffer project was built to do just this. LTESniffer is able to sniff downlink
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter increases its video upload limits for Blue subscribers from one hour and 2GB to two hours and 8GB, but the maximum resolution remains at 1080p — Twitter has made changes to its paid plan, allowing subscribers to upload two-hour-long videos — expanding the previous 60-minute limit.
Read MoreImage: The Verge Hyundai and Kia agreed to a $200 million settlement stemming from a class-action lawsuit related to a rash of car thefts inspired by a viral social media challenge on TikTok. The so-called “Kia Challenge” on the social media platform has led to hundreds of car thefts nationwide, including at least 14 reported
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk’s personal lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter on behalf of Twitter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella that accuses Microsoft of violating Twitter’s developer agreement, as reported by The New York Times. In the Thursday letter (available in full below), Spiro claims that Microsoft may have been in
Read MoreSemiAnalysis: A look at AmpereOne, Ampere’s new third-generation data center CPU, the company’s first to use an in-house architecture, and its disingenuous performance claims — Chiplets, Advanced Packaging, and Disingenuous Performance Claims — Ampere Computing specializes in CPUs for the cloud datacenter market.
Read MoreAmazon’s drone deliveries are stuck in regulatory mud. | Image: Amazon Amazon is having a tough time with Prime Air, its drone delivery program. CNBC is reporting that it’s learned Amazon’s drones have made just 100 deliveries in the two locations in California and Texas the company is operating Prime Air. The company had projected
Read MoreNew York Times: In a letter to Satya Nadella, Twitter accuses Microsoft of violating an agreement over the use of Twitter’s data and declining to pay for that usage — In a letter to Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.
Read MorePhoto by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Disney World is shutting down the Galactic Starcruiser, the immersive Star Wars-themed hotel that costs around $5,000 for a two-night stay. In an update on Disney’s website, the company says the Starcruiser will host its final guests from September 28th to the 30th. “We are so proud of
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority iPhone and Android texting is facing a severe bug right now. The problem appears to be related to the carrier the iPhone is attached to, in most cases AT&T. However, it could also be an iOS issue. There has been much discussion over the past few years about the
Read MoreBenj Edwards / Ars Technica: OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version’s features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI’s Whisper — App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time. — On Thursday, OpenAI released …
Read MoreCredit: Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Google has announced new accessibility features coming to its products. The Chrome browser is getting a feature that will detect typos in URLs. The feature is available now for Chrome on desktop. If you didn’t know, today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Earlier this week, Samsung recognized the day
Read MoreASUS last launched a flagship phone — the Zenfone 9 — in July 2022. It is rumored that the company is now preparing to launch the Zenfone 10. While the new ASUS phone might be a few months away, rumors about it are already circling the techverse. Will the new Zenfone retain its predecessor’s small
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter now lets Twitter Blue subscribers upload videos that are two hours long, and I’ve already seen somebody try to share what appeared to be the full version of Shrek the Third in the comments of owner Elon Musk’s announcement tweet. (The video has since been taken down.)
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