Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead new AI team | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Big Tech generated billions in fines but didn't pay them (m.economictimes.com)
Ireland's data regulator confirmed to AFP that Meta has not paid any of the ₹2 billion ($2.2 billion) in fines issued since last September. TikTok also owes hundreds of millions.
GM’s big bet on driverless cars turns sour (www.theverge.com)
Salesforce looks to poach outbound OpenAI staff with "full cash" compensation offer (www.itpro.com)
Salesforce looks to poach outbound OpenAI staff with “full cash” compensation offer::Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has revealed the firm will offer positions to outgoing OpenAI employees amidst a looming exodus from the beleaguered tech giant.
Cybersecurity firm executive pleads guilty to hacking hospitals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records (www.wired.com)
Notion Battle: Microsoft released Loop and the next is the open source Notion alternative, AppFlowy (techcrunch.com)
Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source (techcrunch.com)
The article is about Kyutai, a French AI lab with an objective to compete with chatgpt and others with full open source (research papers, models, and training data)....
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
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...
