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Ars Technica, on TikTok at risk of being banned in the US: "Estimates show that small businesses on TikTok would lose more than $1 billion in revenue [in US] and creators would suffer almost $300 million in lost earnings in just one month unless the TikTok Ban is halted,
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Financial Times, on Russian-backed campaign in Romania (paywalled): The Russian-backed influence campaign that prompted Romania to scrap its presidential election result echoes operations carried out in Moldova and other countries this year, according to Romanian intelligence reports and Moldovan officials. The short story is that presidential elections in Romania were
The Atlantic, about the new reasoning OpenAI Pro o1 Even if you accept the claim that o1 understands, instead of mimicking, the logic that underlies its responses, the program might actually be further from general intelligence than ChatGPT. o1’s improvements are constrained to specific subjects where you can confirm
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on an annual defense bill that includes just over $3 billion to help U.S. telecom companies remove equipment made by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE from American wireless networks. Link I may be missing something here: US
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This is an automated, AI managed, human washing machine, that gets you cleaned in 15 minutes. It also assesses your stress level and directs water jets to your tensioned muscles. The machine's designer was Manatsu Ueda, a 90-year-old resident of Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture And: The human washing machine
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I stumbled upon Quiche Browser by chance, while looking for Bluesky devs lists. Quiche Browser is a web browser for iOS, highly customizable, sleek, buttery, and swift. It has already gotten a place on my first screen, competing with Safari and Arc. Its pricing model is one of the softest
Dot is an AI companion (a real companion, not a solar CASIO) that resembles Pi (a short lived personal companion, whose founder, Mustafa Suleyman, moved to Microsoft and left Pi in struggle). Dot is made by The New Computer, a five persons company, of which some worked for Apple and
So here came this day, but it took a hit in the head first for FBI to realize end-to-end encrypted messaging apps are the only solution to protect from eavesdropping. John Gruber, at Daring Fireball: It seems kind of new for the FBI to call encryption “our friend”, but now
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The Browser Company, makers of ARC browser, are making another AI-based browser. This time better and smarter, it is called DIA and it is fully AI-based. Take a look: https://vimeo.com/1035951032 (I cannot link to X, it is against my religion…)
OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising to its artificial intelligence products, as the ChatGPT maker seeks new revenue sources as it restructures as a for-profit company. Sarah Friar, chief financial officer at OpenAI, told the Financial Times in an interview that the $150bn AI start-up was weighing up an
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The Biden administration said Tuesday that it would award up to $7.86 billion in direct funding to Intel, with the U.S. chip giant set to receive at least $1 billion of that money before the end of the year. The money is a reduction from Intel’s preliminary
As the left flees and X loses broader relevance, it becomes a more overtly right-wing site. But the right needs liberals on X. If the platform becomes akin to “alt-tech platforms” such as Gab or Truth Social, this shift would be good for people on the right who want their