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GitHub announces that Copilot for Business, the company’s $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool, is now generally available (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: GitHub announces that Copilot for Business, the company’s $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool, is now generally available — GitHub today announced that Copilot for Business, the company’s $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool …

Facebook is going to explain more about how machine learning decides the ads you see

Image: Meta Meta is updating Facebook’s ad transparency tools to better explain how it uses machine learning to decide which ads you see you. Starting Tuesday, when you tap the “Why am I seeing this ad?” message on an ad, you’ll see the following information, according to a blog post from Meta’s Pedro Pavón: Information

Tesla workers in New York are trying to form the company’s first union

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A unionization campaign has kicked off at Tesla’s second Gigafactory in upstate New York, as reported by Bloomberg News. Workers at the Buffalo plant have submitted their intent to unionize with the help of Workers United, which has been behind widespread organized labor efforts among Starbucks employees and,

Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?

Photo illustration by Will Joel / The Verge Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker on competing — and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech. Continue reading…

DARPA says its Air Combat Evolution developers used AI to successfully fly a modified F-16 test aircraft multiple times in December 2022 (Chloe Xiang/VICE)

Chloe Xiang / VICE: DARPA says its Air Combat Evolution developers used AI to successfully fly a modified F-16 test aircraft multiple times in December 2022 — The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. — Chloe Xiang

Parametric Press Unravels The JPEG Format

This is the first we’ve heard of Parametric Press — a digital magazine with some deep dives into a variety of subjects (such as particle physics, “big data” and such) that have interactive elements or simulations of various types embedded within each story. The first one that sprung up in our news feed is a

Prosthetic Scientists Look to Superheroes, Sci-Fi for Inspiration

(Image: Dani Clode)When most people think of a prosthetic limb, they picture something close to a naturally-occurring limb: flesh tones, five fingers or toes, and virtually indistinguishable from the rest of a person’s body. But there’s a reason innovative, out-of-the-box prosthetics are so popular in art and in media, like the Cyberpunk franchise. Not only

Hyundai and Kia forced to update software on millions of vehicles because of viral TikTok challenge

Hyundai and Kia are offering free software updates for millions of their cars in response 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 crashes and eight

Monad Labs, founded by former Jump Trading developers to build an Ethereum virtual machine-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, raised a $19M seed led by Dragonfly (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Monad Labs, founded by former Jump Trading developers to build an Ethereum virtual machine-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, raised a $19M seed led by Dragonfly — – Monad Labs raises $19 million from Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant, Cobie, Hasu and others.

Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6 with new and updated tests for hardware and apps using datasets that are more representative of real world workloads (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6 with new and updated tests for hardware and apps using datasets that are more representative of real world workloads — According to its developer, Primate Labs, Geekbench 6 has new and updated tests that are meant to fully test modern hardware …

BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, offering a personalized narrative based on a theme and questions, written by an AI based on OpenAI’s publicly available API (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, offering a personalized narrative based on a theme and questions, written by an AI based on OpenAI’s publicly available API — BuzzFeed — the media site that made its name (literally) spinning out viral content — landed in the middle of the buzz itself …

Privacy Sandbox beta is rolling out now to select phones: Here’s what to expect

Credit: Google Google is rolling out a beta of its Privacy Sandbox to select Android phones. Access to Sandbox will give you a finer level of control over your privacy, especially regarding targeted ads. You’ll need an Android 13 phone to get the beta, and you can opt-out anytime. In 2022, Google announced Privacy Sandbox.

After backlash, Spotify removes a clause that let Apple use audiobooks from Findaway Voices to develop synthetic voices; Spotify acquired Findaway in June 2022 (Shubham Agarwal/Wired)

Shubham Agarwal / Wired: After backlash, Spotify removes a clause that let Apple use audiobooks from Findaway Voices to develop synthetic voices; Spotify acquired Findaway in June 2022 — After a backlash, Spotify has removed a clause that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.

Google launches Privacy Sandbox on Android in beta, starting with a small number of Android 13 devices and bringing the OS in line with Apple’s ATT updates (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Google launches Privacy Sandbox on Android in beta, starting with a small number of Android 13 devices and bringing the OS in line with Apple’s ATT updates — Here’s a preview of the Privacy Sandbox, the newfangled way companies will follow you around the web that’s supposed to be better for

Instagram plans to shutter live shopping on March 16, 2023, following Facebook, and will focus on ads to help users discover businesses and shops on Instagram (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Instagram plans to shutter live shopping on March 16, 2023, following Facebook, and will focus on ads to help users discover businesses and shops on Instagram — As Meta gears up for its “year of efficiency,” the company announced today it’s exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram …

Meta’s Oversight Board says it will review more types of cases and rule on some within 48 hours using a board members’ panel without considering public comments (Sheila Dang/Reuters)

Sheila Dang / Reuters: Meta’s Oversight Board says it will review more types of cases and rule on some within 48 hours using a board members’ panel without considering public comments — Meta Platforms’ (META.O) Oversight Board announced Tuesday it will review more types of content moderation cases and expedite some decisions, as it aims

A Novel Male Birth Control Could Be an ‘On-Off Switch for Sperm’

A new compound halts sperm in their tracks. It’s fast-acting, temporary, hormone-free, and highly effective—in mice.

Audiobook Narrators Fear Spotify Used Their Voices to Train AI

After a backlash, Spotify has removed a clause that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.

Geekbench 6: What you need to know about the next-generation benchmark

Primate Labs has just released Geekbench 6, a new version of its popular benchmarking app. The new version includes new tests and new datasets to better measure performance. The new tests include background blur, akin to the tech used during video conferences; photo filters, similar to those used by modern social media apps; and object

All About USB-C: Talking Low-Level PD

In this USB-C series, we’ve covered quite a bit of USB-C – things that are well known, things that should be better known, and a couple things that just appeared online for the first time. We’ve covered almost everything in some depth except USB Power Delivery. I’ve described the process a bit in the “Power”

Geekbench 6 interview: It’s a big improvement over its predecessor

We had the opportunity to talk to John Poole, the founder of Primate Labs, which is the company behind the popular Geekbench benchmarking tool. We talked about Geekbench 6, the latest version of the software that was recently announced. Poole explained what makes it different from its predecessor and whether its scores are comparable to

In Praise of AI-Generated Pickup Lines

For a decade, Americans have described dating apps as exhausting. AI offers the tools to reinvigorate how we find and talk to partners online.

Gigi Sohn returns to Congress for a third try at securing empty FCC chair

Image: PETE MAROVICH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission, is set to appear for a third confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday. First nominated in October 2021, Sohn’s confirmation has been held up by a combination of shaky Democratic support and bad-faith Republican attacks on

EnterpriseDB adds Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL

Relational database provider EnterpriseDB on Tuesday said that it was adding Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to its databases, which are based on open-source PostgreSQL. TDE, which is used by Oracle and Microsoft, is a method of encrypting database files in order to ensure security of data while at rest and in motion. It helps

Overclocker Uses Secret Intel Utility to Push Core i9-13900HK to 5.8GHz

Deep in the bowels of Intel’s Portland, Oregon facilities, the company operates an overclocking laboratory. (We know; we’re already polishing our resumes.) It recently invited German overclocker de8auer to its offices to show off some of its testing and validation tools. As expected, he showed off all kinds of software and hardware the general public

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