Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
Your Loved Ones Are Prisoners, and You Made the Chain (gavinhoward.com)
Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI (arstechnica.com)
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract (www.theguardian.com)
Sony facing $7.9 bln mass lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation::Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott offered to match the compensation of OpenAI employees considering a departure from the company.
Former OpenAI Exec Announces ChatGPT Voice Is Now Available to All (gizmodo.com)
USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide (arstechnica.com)
Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)
The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”
New Lawsuit Ropes Microsoft Into OpenAI’s Legal Battle With Authors Over Training Data (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
The suit alleges that the tech giant has been "deeply involved in the training, development, and commercialization" of OpenAI's GPT-based products.
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...
How to pick a stylus to play a 78-rpm record (www.vjm.biz)
Insights into the kind of crap 78-rpm records were made of, and other scarce technical infos....
How does Anthropic compare to OpenAI?
ChatGPT is down, the new CEO is threatening to quit, and the majority of employees are doing the same… so I decided to look up some alternatives...
Sam Altman, OpenAI Board Open Talks to Negotiate His Possible Return (www.bloomberg.com)
Sam Altman, members of the OpenAI board and the company’s interim chief executive officer have opened negotiations aimed at a possible reinstatement of the ousted CEO at the artificial intelligence startup he co-founded, according to people with knowledge of the matter....
Microsoft preparing San Francisco offices for OpenAI employees, even as chaos lingers (www.cnbc.com)
95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board (arstechnica.com)
95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board::OpenAI’s future hangs in the balance as staff says they’ll join former CEO at Microsoft.
Column: OpenAI's board had safety concerns. Big Tech obliterated them in 48 hours (www.latimes.com)
Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO (www.theverge.com)
Salesforce looks to poach outbound OpenAI staff with "full cash" compensation offer (www.itpro.com)
Salesforce looks to poach outbound OpenAI staff with “full cash” compensation offer::Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has revealed the firm will offer positions to outgoing OpenAI employees amidst a looming exodus from the beleaguered tech giant.
Cybersecurity firm executive pleads guilty to hacking hospitals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law (www.wired.com)
Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial (fortune.com)
Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial::Epic alleges that Google has been engaged in illegal price-gouging by collecting commissions ranging from 15% to 30% on in-app digital transactions.