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X walks back its misgendering policy after right-wing complaints (www.engadget.com)

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.

Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke' (www.businessinsider.com)

Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was ‘woke’::After users complained Google’s Gemini had gone “woke,” the company said it will pause the image-generating feature of people while working on fixes.

Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget (www.theverge.com)

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data (www.theverge.com)

Apple's next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don't look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades (www.techspot.com)

Apple’s next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don’t look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades::undefined

The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse (gizmodo.com)

The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse::Deepfakes are blurring the lines of reality more than ever before, and they’re likely going to get a lot worse this year.

“Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation. (arstechnica.com)

“Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation.::California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation.

DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs (www.cnbc.com)

DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs::DocuSign announced Tuesday it will cut 6% of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan

Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (www.404media.co)

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Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany (alexwlchan.net)

Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s stated as pure fact, with no supporting evidence or explanation. We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not...

Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers (www.eff.org)

Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...

Meta won't remove fake Instagram profiles that are clearly catfishing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll (ktla.com)

1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll::For years, scholars and science fiction writers have warned about the possibility of workers being replaced by machines. Now after the world of artificial intelligence took a giant leap forward in 2023, it appears we are one step closer to that...

Climate denialists find new ways to monetize disinformation on YouTube (arstechnica.com)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy Juniper Networks in $14 bln deal (www.reuters.com)

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.N) will buy networking gear maker Juniper Networks (JNPR.N) for $14 billion in an all-cash deal, in an attempt to spruce up the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) offerings.

This iPhone fell out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 (www.theverge.com)

MemoryCache, a Mozilla Innovation Project (memorycache.ai)

MemoryCache is an experimental developer project to turn a local desktop environment into an on-device AI agent.

Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children (www.independent.co.uk)

Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children::Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built

Apple Develops Breakthrough Method for Running LLMs on iPhones (www.macrumors.com)

Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months (www.edmunds.com)

Our Chevy Blazer EV Has 23 Problems After Only 2 Months::undefined

Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway's $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock (finance.yahoo.com)

Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway’s $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock::This tech giant has made for a wonderful investment in recent years.

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