AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features (www.phoronix.com)
Well, apparently, after just a few years the ability to control GPU operation in Linux will slide down considerably.
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? - American Affairs Journal (americanaffairsjournal.org)
Scribus Gets Huge Update (but the toolbar buttons are still too small to see!) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
I want to like Scribus, but every time I hear about it getting updated, I download it, open it, only to find these tiny toolbar icons that have no apparent way of being made bigger. This is always what prevents me from trying it out! Seems like kind of a basic design no-brainer. Grrr. Does anyone else have this problem? I’m on...
IMF predicts AI will impact 40% of jobs worldwide, exacerbating inequality and social tensions (www.techspot.com)
TikTok restricts tool used by researchers - and its critics - to assess content on its platform (apnews.com)
Among others, the social media company, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has removed certain hashtags from the Creative Center that some online researchers had stored for analysis. They include topics that would be seen as controversial to the Chinese government – such as “UyghurGenocide” and...
Providing HTML Content Using Htmx (postgrest.org)
FTC investigating Adobe over making it too hard to cancel (9to5mac.com)
French government recommends against using foreign chat apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months (theprogressplaybook.com)
Solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel at the same time (techxplore.com)
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)
Archive.org link
The Whimsical Web: "a curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun" (whimsical.club)
Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after complaints (www.theverge.com)
A weird storage bug in Android 14 is locking users out of their phones (www.techspot.com)
Automattic's Tumblr/ActivityPub integration reportedly shelved (notes.ghed.in)
China crackdown on cyber scams in Southeast Asia nets thousands but leaves networks intact (apnews.com)
Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft’s Nadella to Testify at Google Antitrust Trial Monday - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
cross-posted from !google...
Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from !android...