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Hobbes OS/2 Archive to shut down in three months – OSnews (www.osnews.com)

The announcement on hobbes.nmsu.edu...

TikTok pulled a hashtag-tracking feature researchers used to study the platform (www.engadget.com)

Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk's X on disclosing federal surveillance (www.cnbc.com)

Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk’s X on disclosing federal surveillance::X, owned by Elon Musk, previously challenged a ban on disclosing warrant for the Twitter account of Donald Trump obtained by special counsel Jack Smith.

Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform (www.platformer.news)

Exclusive-Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in ‘company reset’ continuation (www.yahoo.com)

By Anna Tong...

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

‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)

DOJ Slams XCast with $10 Million Fine Over Massive Illegal Robocall Operation (thehackernews.com)

OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles (www.theverge.com)

OpenAI has publicly responded to a copyright lawsuit by The New York Times, calling the case “without merit” and saying it still hoped for a partnership with the media outlet....

iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall from Alaska Air flight 1282 (arstechnica.com)

iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall from Alaska Air flight 1282::undefined

Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines (proton.me)

About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity (www.ft.com)

About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity::About 75,000 staff to be given access to ‘PairD’ tool with advice to validate ‘accuracy and completeness’

Optically decoding the TMS0801 ROM - One of the earliest pocket calculators from 1972 (veniamin-ilmer.github.io)

The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)

2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.

Wizards of the Coast denies, then confirms, that Magic: The Gathering promo art features AI elements | When will companies learn? (www.techspot.com)

Wizards of the Coast denies, then confirms, that Magic: The Gathering promo art features AI elements | When will companies learn?::undefined

Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones (www.bbc.com)

Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones::The tech giant is compensating US customers and faces similar allegations in the UK.

Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 (www.apple.com)

I honestly doubt this will take off, but it’ll be interesting as a tech demo for what AR/VR can be at the highest end.

Passenger phone found on ground after Alaska Airlines emergency (abcnews.go.com)

“I found a phone sitting on the side of the road that had apparently fallen 16,000 feet,” Bates said in a video recorded for social media Sunday....

EU announces €4bn state aid to back battery and green tech factories (www.theguardian.com)

The EU has announced €4bn (£3.4bn) of state aid investments in new factories producing electric batteries for cars, heat pumps and solar panels as it seeks to accelerate production and the uptake of green technologies and combat cheap Chinese imports....

Ubisoft, Tencent will begin using Nvidia's AI NPC tools (www.digitaltrends.com)

Nvidia Ace, a tool capable of creating AI-generated NPCs, is expanding -- and major companies like Ubisoft and Tencent are signed on as partners.

How Google perfected the web (www.theverge.com)

It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

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