Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly (www.theverge.com)
Google monopoly ruling: where the tech giant goes from here. (theconversation.com)
Form Energy set to build world’s biggest battery in Maine (www.canarymedia.com)
SoftBank's Intel AI processor plans in doubt as insiders say it is now considering a TSMC partnership (www.tomshardware.com)
Crunchyroll is trying to turn India into a nation of anime lovers. (restofworld.org)
Google Meet’s latest update includes a new UI and in-call messaging (www.theverge.com)
Google’s Meet app is getting a few more features designed for calls. Meet, the videocalling app Google rolled Duo into a couple of years ago, is designed to handle both meetings and personal video calls. The update, which will roll out over the coming months, focuses on the personal side. It offers an updated UI and features...
Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes (techcrunch.com)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption,...
Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck (www.fastcompany.com)
X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum (www.engadget.com)
STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems (en.wikipedia.org)
A paper[1] presented in June at the NAACL 2024 conference describes "how to apply large language models to write grounded and organized long-form articles from scratch, with comparable breadth and depth to Wikipedia pages." A "research prototype" version of the resulting "STORM" system is available online and has already...
Instagram Isn’t Protecting Women Politicians From Hate Speech (www.wired.com)
Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic (www.theverge.com)
Musk’s new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images (arstechnica.com)
So his site that already doesn’t make money with let subscribers make porn at an astonishing rate of electricity. He has no clue how to run a business.
Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime (arstechnica.com)
Subvert wants to be ‘a collectively owned Bandcamp successor’ (musically.com)
The world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform has two turbines (electrek.co)
This will be the first geothermal energy storage system on the Texas grid (electrek.co)
Security Issues in Matrix’s Olm Library. (soatok.blog)
I don’t consider myself exceptional in any regard, but I stumbled upon a few cryptography vulnerabilities in Matrix’s Olm library with so little effort that it was nearly accidental....
Is AI Going to Replace Software Engineers? (www.proofnews.org)
X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (www.theverge.com)
“Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a...