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Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI told a San Francisco federal court to dismiss a proposed class action suit against Copilot, citing fair use of open-source code (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI told a San Francisco federal court to dismiss a proposed class action suit against Copilot, citing fair use of open-source code — Microsoft Corp, Microsoft’s GitHub Inc and OpenAI Inc told a San Francisco federal court that a proposed class-action lawsuit …

Gaggle, which offers a tool for monitoring online student communication, says it will no longer flag LGBTQ keywords in assignments after discrimination concerns (Mark Keierleber/The 74)

Mark Keierleber / The 74: Gaggle, which offers a tool for monitoring online student communication, says it will no longer flag LGBTQ keywords in assignments after discrimination concerns — Company will no longer flag students who use words like “gay” and “lesbian” online, citing greater acceptance of queer kids in schools

In its annual report, Intel says the European Commission is revisiting its antitrust case against the firm even after the General Court overturned a €1.06B fine (Stephanie Bodoni/Bloomberg)

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: In its annual report, Intel says the European Commission is revisiting its antitrust case against the firm even after the General Court overturned a €1.06B fine — Intel Corp. is still in the crosshairs of European Union antitrust regulators even after the bloc’s second-highest court toppled …

Oracle per-employee Java pricing causes concern

Oracle’s 2023 per-employee pricing for standard Java is raising concerns about its potential impact on Java licensing costs for customers. The pricing is based on total employee counts, not the number of employees using Java. Published January 23, Oracle’s price list covers the new Java SE Universal Subscription program. The pricing starts at $15 per

Reverse-Engineering the Conditional Jump Circuitry in the 8086 Processor

The condition PLA evaluates microcode conditionals. As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from something like a conditional jump instruction to a set of operations that the processor can perform. For the CISC 8086 CPU

New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)

Maureen Farrell / New York Times: New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A — New York-based Paradigm has raised a significant amount to simplify clinical trials. Its goal is ambitious, but its challenges are many, researchers say.

Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster with AI amid the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster with AI amid the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside — Google, Facebook and Microsoft helped build the scaffolding of AI. Smaller companies are taking it to the masses, forcing Big Tech to react.

Twitter vows to take ‘less severe actions’ against rule-breaking accounts

Suppression, not suspension. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is promising that it’ll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it’ll only suspend Twitter accounts that engage in “severe or ongoing, repeat violations” of its rules. The company also says it’ll be letting anyone appeal suspensions starting February

Twitter will take less severe action against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets; suspensions will be reserved for severe violations (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter will take less severe action against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets; suspensions will be reserved for severe violations — Twitter is promising that it’ll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it’ll only suspend Twitter accounts …

A Single-Resistor Radio Transmitter, Thanks to the Power of Noise

One of the great things about the Hackaday community is how quickly you find out what you don’t know. That’s not a bad thing, of course; after all, everyone is here to get smarter, right? So let’s work together to get our heads around this paper (PDF) by [Zerina Kapetanovic], [Miguel Morales], and [Joshua R.

Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US’ general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications (New York Times)

New York Times: Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US’ general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications — The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive’s attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.

Twitter will take less severe action against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets; suspensions will be reserved for severe violations (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

TypeScript 5.0 retools decorators

Microsoft published a beta release of TypeScript 5.0, the company’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, on January 26. The new release aims to modernize decorators for class customization. Decorators, an upcoming ECMAScript feature, allow for customizing classes and their members in a reusable way, Microsoft noted in a blog post announcing the release. Decorators can be

Counterpoint: China’s smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country’s No. 2 brand (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: Counterpoint: China’s smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country’s No. 2 brand — Apple topped smartphone sales in China in the fourth quarter of 2022, enabling the US tech giant to

Jonathan Majors is a bodybuilder yearning to be truly seen in Magazine Dreams

Jonathan Majors as Killian Maddox in Magazine Dreams. | Tall Street Productions When Jonathan Majors takes to the bodybuilding competition stage in writer / director Elijah Bynum’s arresting new drama Magazine Dreams, it’s impossible not to feel as if the movie’s in direct conversation with the way that its lead star’s fame has become wrapped

FBI says it ‘hacked the hackers’ of a ransomware service, saving victims $130 million

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Department of Justice announced this week that FBI agents successfully disrupted Hive, a notorious ransomware group, and prevented $130 million worth of ransom campaigns that targets no longer need to consider paying. While claiming the Hive group has been responsible for targeting over 1,500 victims in

TypeScript 5.0 retools decorators

Sources: the Biden administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the Biden administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China — President Joe Biden’s administration secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery …

AMD’s Marketing Shows Its Older 6000 Series GPUs Offer the Most Value

(Credit: AMD) AMD has published a new blog post attempting to convince people of its status as a GPU industry leader. Along the way, it seems to have inadvertently admitted its older GPUs are a better value than the newest models. It reminds us of the oft-used online phrase, “An attempt was made.” The gist

Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla’s self-driving car claims, as part of a probe into the company’s statements about Autopilot (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)

Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla’s self-driving car claims, as part of a probe into the company’s statements about Autopilot — US regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla Inc.’s self-driving car claims, the latest effort by watchdogs …

Cut Your Own Gears With This DIY Machine

You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen specification. However, there’s something rugged and individualist about producing your own rotating components. [Maciej Nowak] demonstrates just how to produce your own gears with a homemade cutting tool. The cutting tool for the job is an M16 machine

Amazon is reportedly making a Tomb Raider TV series written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

She apparently won’t be the star. | Photo by Dominique Charriau / WireImage Amazon is developing a TV series based on the Tomb Raider video game franchise with scripts written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details are light on this new Tomb Raider series, but THR says that while Waller-Bridge will serve

OnePlus Teases Its First Android Tablet

OnePlus has been making Android phones for almost a decade, but it has yet to dip its toe in the tablet market. That’s about to change, though. The company, a subsidiary of Chinese mega-firm Oppo, has posted a teaser on its website showing a very green tablet with a prominent rear-facing camera. OnePlus has an

LED Air Vent Gauges are a Tasteful Mod for the Mazda Miata

Anyone in the JDM scene can tell you, round air vents are prime real estate for round analog gauges. If you want a gauge but don’t want to block your vent, you could consider building these LED vent gauges from [ktanner] instead. Tasteful, no? The design is simple. It relies on 3D printing a replacement

Google researchers detail AI model MusicLM, which can generate high-fidelity music in any genre from text and was trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google researchers detail AI model MusicLM, which can generate high-fidelity music in any genre from text and was trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music — An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks,

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