Nothing pulls its iMessage app from the Play Store following privacy disaster (www.androidpolice.com)
Nothing Chats, a rival to apps like Beeper and AirMessage, advertised itself as a secure platform for sending messages to iMessage users....
Sunbird is shutting down its iMessage app for Android (www.theverge.com)
• Sunbird, the iMessage app for Android, has temporarily shut down due to “security concerns” surrounding its end-to-end encryption. • Reports suggest that Sunbird may not have actually provided the promised level of encryption and was storing data externally. • The app was recently pulled from the Google Play Store...
Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way (www.spacebar.news)
Exclusive: OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing -sources (www.reuters.com)
EU widens scope of food delivery cartel concerns probe (techcrunch.com)
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
Sam Altman’s ouster at OpenAI exposes growing rift in AI industry (www.washingtonpost.com) Japanese
Questions remain about what spurred the board’s decision to oust Altman, but growing tensions became impossible to ignore as Altman rushed to make OpenAI the next big technology company.
Elon Musk’s X sues media watchdog Media Matters over report on pro-Nazi content on the social media site (www.cnn.com)
Elon Musk’s X sues media watchdog Media Matters over report on pro-Nazi content on the social media site::After a devastating advertiser exodus last week involving some of the world’s largest media companies, X owner Elon Musk is suing the progressive watchdog group Media Matters over its analysis highlighting antisemitic...
Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates (techcrunch.com)
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft::OpenAI employees signed a letter threatening to resign and join Microsoft if the board doesn’t quit and reinstate Sam Altman. It could be a precursor to a mass exodus.
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (www.theverge.com)
Criminal Gang Cuts Down MS3 FTTP Broadband Poles in Hull UK - ISPreview UK (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Microsoft stock hits all-time high after hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (www.cnn.com)
Microsoft stock hits all-time high after hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman::Microsoft stock reached a record high on Monday after the company said that Sam Altman, former chief executive of OpenAI, will join the company to head its artificial intelligence innovation leg.
Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (philip.greenspun.com)
Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?::I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this PC can last until 2029?). In looking at new des…
This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several... (grist.org)
This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several…::A Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for stationary storage can extend their usefulness for...
OpenAI's chaos does not add up (builtnotfound.proseful.com)
The tech world reacts in shock to Sam Altman's departure from OpenAI (www.businessinsider.com)
The tech world reacts in shock to Sam Altman’s departure from OpenAI::The tech community is expressing their shock, disbelief, and theories on Sam Altman’s departure.
Portugal just ran on 100% renewable energy for six days (www.joe.co.uk)
Portugal just ran on 100% renewable energy for six days::Incredible newsPortugal has reportedly broke a record for energy production after going six days relying entirely on renewable energy.This apparently…
US consumer watchdog hands Wall Street rare win with Big Tech crackdown (www.reuters.com)
Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show (www.businessinsider.com)
Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don’t comply with its return-to-office policy, leaked documents show::Amazon has updated its promotions policy to enforce its office attendance policy.
Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)
Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that’s different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.
Post explaining the recent Open AI drama as a sort of religious conflict (www.programmablemutter.com)
Sacked OpenAI boss Sam Altman to join Microsoft - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Where have all the users gone? How Google's actions could degrade the open internet and what publishers can do to stop it. (www.thecurrent.com)
OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist says he deeply regrets participating in ousting Sam Altman (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist says he deeply regrets participating in ousting Sam Altman::Ilya Sutskever, a cofounder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, expressed regret and said he’d do everything he could to reunite the company.
