Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data::Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds (www.vice.com)
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds::The Southern California-to-Las Vegas route makes total sense and involves no wishful thinking in order to be a resounding success.
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AI could mean free doctors and lawyers for everybody in 10 years, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes / There will even be a billion bipedal robots in 25 years, Khosla said (archive.ph)
AI could mean free doctors and lawyers for everybody in 10 years, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes / There will even be a billion bipedal robots in 25 years, Khosla said::undefined
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)
Google Drive misplaces months’ worth of customer files::The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished
Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft offers to match pay of all OpenAI staff (www.bbc.com)
Microsoft offers to match pay of all OpenAI staff::The tech giant offers jobs to any workers who want to leave over Sam Altman’s sacking.
Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...
Exclusive: OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing -sources (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI's chaos does not add up (builtnotfound.proseful.com)
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team (www.theverge.com)
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team::Meta is in the midst of a reshuffling of its AI teams, and has reportedly split up its responsible AI development team
Apple doesn't need to ban Sunbird or Beeper; they're already on borrowed time (www.androidauthority.com)
No need to ban what will, by default, become an unsustainable business model.
Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act::Microsoft has published a blog post detailing how it’s making Windows 11 compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA.)
Google is pushing back the MV3 date again (developer.chrome.com)
Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is finally making custom chips — and they’re all about AI (www.theverge.com)
Passive Salt Water Cooling Boosts CPU Performance by Almost 33% (www.tomshardware.com)
Passive Salt Water Cooling Boosts CPU Performance by Almost 33%::A passive cooler using lithium bromide salt helped a test system deliver almost 33% better performance and stay cool for 10x longer, compared to alternatives.
World’s biggest tidal energy ‘kite’ could single-handedly power a small town (thenextweb.com)
Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin (www.businessinsider.com)
Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin::Bill Gates and Sam Altman spoke about the future of AI being one where the technology works as super-helpful assistants to humans.
EU regulator says Apple should be on hook for €14.3 billion tax bill (arstechnica.com)
Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)
TikTok Is Shutting Down its $2 Billion Creator Fund (time.com)
TikTok Is Shutting Down its $2 Billion Creator Fund::TikTok’s controversial creator fund allowed short-form content creators to earn money for their videos. The program will end in December.
Overheating datacenter thwarts 2.5 million bank transactions (www.theregister.com)
