Twitter didn’t move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists
The inquiry appears to be tied to an admission by the app’s owner, ByteDance, that employees had inappropriately obtained Americans’ data. The company said it had fired the workers involved.
YouTube Restores Donald Trump’s Account Privileges
The Google-owned video platform became the latest of the big social networks to reverse the former president’s account restrictions.
Where Did All Your Zoom Friends Go?
They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.
Banning TikTok Should Be Just the Beginning
China poses a broad range of data security risks.
El nuevo GPT-4, lo bueno y lo malo
OpenAI ha mejorado la tecnología de su chatbot en línea. Ahora es más preciso, pero sigue inventando cosas.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Makes Everyone Look Terrible
Banking is a critical form of public infrastructure that we pretend is a private act of risk management.
Book Review: ‘Meganets,’ by David B. Auerbach
Who’s really in charge of our online behavior? No one, David Auerbach argues in “Meganets.”
GPT-4 emociona y asusta
El nuevo modelo de lenguaje de OpenAI podría no parecer tan peligroso, ahora. Sin embargo, los peores riesgos son precisamente los que no podemos anticipar.
Tesla hit with right-to-repair class-action lawsuits alleging monopolistic practices
A proposed class action lawsuit was brought in US District Court, Northern District of California, by Model S owner Virginia Lambrix on Tuesday. She says Tesla caused her to suffer lengthy delays in repairing or maintaining her vehicle.
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Kia starts to pull back the curtain on its 2024 EV9 SUV
Kia offered an early look at the upcoming 2024 EV9's exterior and interior design this week, with other important details still to come. Among the most interesting features are the seating configurations and the dashboard touchscreen.
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Google Glass killed off for a second time
The original Google Glass' $1,500 price tag and concerns over privacy implications meant it never caught on with customers after first arriving in 2013. But Google gave it a new lease of life as an enterprise product by 2017, releasing a second-generation model named Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 a couple of years later.
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Anti-piracy coalition helped dismantle Evo piracy group
Working with Portuguese authorities in an investigation that is still ongoing, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has seemingly brought the leaders of EVOLUTiON to justice. The group known as "EVO" was one of the most active "releasers" within the P2P scene, and it was likely targeted by the...
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No invitation needed: Buy your PS5 from Amazon today
Amazon is selling the PlayStation 5 at its $399 / $499 MSRP without an invitation. The powerful console is now in stock after months of tight availability, you can choose the digital version or the disc version.
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Microsoft Copilot enables next-gen AI for Word, Excel and other Office applications
In my nearly 25 years as an analyst, I have to admit that I've never seen advances move faster and competition get more intense than we've seen in the world of generative AI over the last few weeks.
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Almost everyone wins in the business of selling used smartphones
The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern recently asked major carriers and smartphone manufacturers about their trade-in businesses, but none were forthcoming with details. She ultimately found a third-party company called U.S. Mobile Phones that was willing to talk and even let her into their warehouse.
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T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile for $1.35 billion
T-Mobile is buying budget wireless carrier Mint Mobile's parent Ka'ena Corporation in a deal that could be worth up to $1.35 billion in a combination of 39 percent cash and 61 percent stock. The deal also includes international calling service Ultra Mobile and wireless wholesaler Plum.
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MNT Reform Pocket laptop ships in October starting at $899
Other noteworthy hardware includes a 60-key, backlit mechanical keyboard with ortholinear matrix and N-key rollover support, a 15mm micro-optical trackball with four buttons, 128GB of eMMC flash memory (plus an NVMe SSD slot and a micro-SD card slot for expansion), and dual li-ion batteries that supply about four hours of...
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This default Windows setting can restrict gaming performance by up to 10%
Tom's Hardware recently discovered that, at some point since the initial controversy surrounding Windows 11's Virtualization-based Security (VBS), updates have reenabled it for seemingly all Windows 11 and Windows 10 systems. Leaving it on can lower some games' framerates by almost 10 percent, though often less than one percent depending on the title.
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Mozilla wants to put ethics back into AI with the “Responsible AI Challenge”
Mozilla's latest attempt to save the future of the Internet goes through the creation of a trustworthy AI. Building upon the Trustworthy AI whitepaper published in 2020 and the experience gained through the Mozilla Builders initiative, the company is now pushing a new incubator program design to promote AI solutions...
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