Unity Software Inc's President and CEO John Riccitiello Sells 2,000 Shares (finance.yahoo.com)
Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion — Stability AI (stability.ai)
Stability AI introduces their AI model for creating audio and music. You can try it out now: www.stableaudio.com
Google's defenders honed antitrust skills attacking Microsoft (www.spokesman.com)
Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs (www.eurogamer.net)
Game development engine Unity has U-turned on some parts of its hugely controversial plan to enforce fees on game creat…
The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…
Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine (arstechnica.com)
Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.
French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it (abcnews.go.com)
Interactive Map of Linux Kernel (makelinux.github.io)
Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
Controversial AI art piece from 2022 lacks human authorship required for registration.
The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch (arstechnica.com)
Gasoline, diesel vehicles dominate India's auto market, EVs lag (www.reuters.com)
The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk (www.techradar.com)
How many times even has this happened?!?!
Calls to violence are appearing on the conspiracy subreddit over a gun order from New Mexico’s governor (www.mediamatters.org)
Calls to violence are appearing on the conspiracy subreddit over a gun order from New Mexico’s governor::Users on the “r/conspiracy” subreddit, a prominent message board for conspiracy theorists, have repeatedly issued calls for violence in response to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issuing a temporary ban on...
'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED (www.kqed.org)
When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.
Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years (news.sky.com)
Google accused of rigging market to secure dominant search monopoly in biggest US antitrust trial for years::The historic legal battle against federal government lawyers - which comes just a week after Google’s 25th birthday - is set to be the biggest in almost two decades. The outcome of the case could have repercussions for...
Don't worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it'll build safe, trustworthy generative AI (www.theregister.com)
Summary...
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from !google
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island (www.theverge.com)
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island::Apple’s new iPhone 15 is the first iPhone with a USB-C port. The iPhone 15 also includes the Dynamic Island and a big camera upgrade.
Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive (www.theverge.com)
The switch to USB-C is good! Except for all the dongles you’ll need to get there.
Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed (www.engadget.com)
Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed (www.engadget.com)
Boeing is letting top executives work in small offices near their homes and commute by private jet rather than relocate to its new headquarters (fortune.com)
Boeing is letting top executives work in small offices near their homes and commute by private jet rather than relocate to its new headquarters::Top brass at the aerospace giants, including CEO David Calhoun, are given special treatment when it comes to any return-to-office policy.
