Who’s that in the mirror? | Image: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP via Getty Images AI chatbots like Bing and ChatGPT are entrancing users, but they’re just autocomplete systems trained on our own stories about superintelligent AI. That makes them software — not sentient. Continue reading…
Read MoreYueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Source: Binance is considering de-listing USDC and other tokens and ending relationships with US partners, including VC investments, amid regulatory scrutiny — Crypto giant Binance Holdings Ltd. is considering ending relationships with US business partners as regulators turn up the heat.
Read MoreSamsung revealed its preorder numbers for the Galaxy S23 series surpassed those for the S22 series. The preorder numbers doubled that of the Galaxy S21 series within a week. The Galaxy S23 Ultra made up 60% of the total preorders. Today is an exciting day for Samsung as it globally launches the Galaxy S23 series.
Read MoreMike Corder / Associated Press: The US launches an initiative of non-legally binding guidelines promoting international cooperation on militaries’ responsible use of AI and autonomous weapons — 1 of 3 — The United States launched an initiative Thursday promoting international cooperation on the responsible use …
Read MoreNew York Times: Microsoft says it is looking at limiting Bing chatbot conversation length and adding tools to let users restart conversations or get more control over tone — The company knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems. But users have prodded surprising and unnerving interactions.
Read MoreEarlier versions of the Arduino IDE made uploading files to an ESP32’s SPIFFS filesystem easy via the ESP32FS plugin. Sadly, that’s no longer possible under the rewritten Arduino 2.0 IDE. Thankfully, [myhomethings] has stepped up to solve the problem with a new tool that also adds some new functionality. The tool in question is the
Read MoreSheila Dang / Reuters: Source: Microsoft is demoing Bing chatbot to ad agencies, saying it plans paid links within the chatbox responses and industry-specific ads — Microsoft (MSFT.O) has started discussing with ad agencies how it plans to make money from its revamped Bing search engine powered …
Read MoreThe Google-fication of Fitbit continues. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fitbit users: better one-up your friends in challenges while you still can. Starting March 27th, Fitbit will remove all adventures, challenges, and open groups from its app. It’s a striking move. Before 2019’s Google acquisition (and closure in 2021), Fitbit frequently
Read MoreMartial arts moves can seem magical, but maybe they just display a mastery of physics.
Read MoreA “for you” feed might sound convenient. But making AO3 more like TikTok could have disastrous consequences for fan fiction readers and creators alike.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority One of the few notable additions to the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is the introduction of a colossal 200-megapixel camera, almost double the pixel count of last generation’s 108MP camera. That’s 200,000,000 little pixels of detail in your snaps, but what does that actually mean for your pictures, and
Read MoreBloomberg: Filing: the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund’s Savvy Games Group now owns 8.3% of Nintendo, the largest outside shareholder, up from ~6% in early 2023 — Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund became the largest outside shareholder of Nintendo Co. on Friday, in the latest move by the Gulf state to lower its reliance on
Read MoreVictoria Song / The Verge: Fitbit plans to remove adventures, challenges, and open groups from its app and replace Studio with an SDK; Google says the features were of “limited use” — Fitbit users: better one-up your friends in challenges while you still can. Starting March 27th, Fitbit will remove all adventures …
Read MoreAt CES in 2022, Sony surprised show attendees by detailing a second-generation virtual reality system it was developing. By then, the Playstation 5 had been out for two years, so people were curious if it would ever offer a follow-up to the first PSVR from 2016. As more information was revealed, it became clear Sony
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Read MoreThere is vulnerability in many Hyundai and Kia vehicles, where the ignition switch can be bypassed with a USB cable. And it’s getting a patch rollout right now, but it’s not a USB vulnerability, in quite the way you might think. In most cars, the steering column is easily disassembled, but these vehicles have an
Read MoreCristiano Lima / Washington Post: The FTC launches an Office of Technology, increasing the number of technologists on staff to ~22, up from the current 10, ahead of legal battles with Big Tech — Happy Friday! A quick programming note: The newsletter will be off Monday for the holiday, but back in your inboxes Tuesday.
Read MoreClothilde Goujard / Politico: Under the Digital Services Act, online platforms disclose their MAUs in the EU: YouTube has 401M, Facebook 255M, Instagram 250M, TikTok 125M, Twitter 101M — TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have now confirmed they will face the strictest rules under the EU’s content-moderation law, the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Read MoreVigil Ciel astronomers with their discovery. (Image: FRIPON/Second-Ciel)A group of amateur and professional astronomers have recovered a fragment of a meteoroid that landed in northern France. Originally spotted Sunday night by the European Space Agency (ESA), the meteoroid safely struck Earth hours later, wedging itself into a field in Normandy. News of the meteoroid’s celestial
Read MoreVictoria Song / The Verge: Fitbit plans to remove adventures, challenges, and open groups from its app and replace Studio with an SDK; Google says the features were of “limited use” — Fitbit users: better one-up your friends in challenges while you still can. Starting March 27th, Fitbit will remove all adventures …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Meta gave ~10% of staff subpar ratings in recent performance reviews, a sign of more workforce reductions, and cut a bonus metric to 85% of its target — The performance-review process is expected to set the stage for more workforce reductions this year — Why Tech Layoffs Don’t Reflect the Job
Read MoreSuvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: The SEC says Do Kwon and Terraform Labs have withdrawn $100M+ in fiat currency from a Swiss bank since June 2022, after moving 10K+ Bitcoin out of a cold wallet — Crypto fugitive Do Kwon and the firm he founded transferred over 10,000 Bitcoin out of their doomed project and turned
Read MoreThomas Claburn / The Register: Source: the UK CMA is investigating a deal in which Google pays Apple a portion of search revenue generated by people using Chrome on iOS — Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari — EXCLUSIVE Google has been paying Apple a portion
Read MoreHello, readers, and welcome to your Friday morning digest of the most important space news from here to the big empty. It’s a rough one this week. There’s another coolant leak on a spacecraft docking with the International Space Station. News from the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake is grim, but NASA life sign detectors are helping
Read MoreJosh Ye / Reuters: Sources: Tencent cuts its 300-strong metaverse unit and drops VR hardware plans due to trouble achieving quick profitability and the need for a big investment — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) is abandoning plans to venture into virtual reality hardware, as a sobering economic outlook prompts …
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