Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain (www.techspot.com)
Proton Mail assisted Spanish authorities in identifying and arresting a member of the Catalan independence organization Democratic Tsunami....
Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)
Microsoft’s announcement: “We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11...
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)
I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI
This may be an unpopular opinnion… Let me get this straight. We get big tech corporations to read the articles of the web and then summarize to me, the user the info I am looking for. Sounds cool, right? Yeah, except that why in the everloving duck would I trust Google, Microsoft, Apple or Meta to give me the correct info,...
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)
Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is undermining rivals to its videoconferencing app Teams....
Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option (www.theverge.com)
The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (hai.stanford.edu)
Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira (investors.squarespace.com)
Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...
World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Superyacht Embodies Eco-Conscious Luxury (nicenews.com)
Bloomberg - Apple Says No Major App Developers Accept New Outside Payments (www.bloomberg.com)
According to Apple, only 38 developers have applied to add such links — out of roughly 65,000 that could.
Microsoft Places uses AI to find the best time for your next office day (www.theverge.com)
Expectations Versus Reality (www.wheresyoured.at)
JeremyMallin, to technology Now that Internet search has been ruined, I'm going to start calling them quests instead of searches.
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yogthos, to technology Chinese scientists achieve mass production of optical chips. Such chips are particularly useful for supercomputers and data centers.
Researchers found a way to produce the chips using lithium tantalate, a cheaper material than what was previously used.
This method is expected to help China avoid limitations on advanced chip production from the U.S. 🎉
adanvers, to tech According to this pitch deck, Open AI would be paid to feature certain publishers' info more prominently. Open AI gets to train on contemporary data from the publisher, the publisher gets links from their website promoted by the AI results.
This suggests that AI replacing search will not improve it, but just further a trend towards more "paid placements" in search results.
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-preferred-publisher-program-deck/#
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/0KvTq