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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent users error-filled headlines, sparking backlash from a news organization and press freedom groups. The rare reversal from the iPhone maker on its heavily marketed Apple Intelligence feature comes after the technology produced misleading or altogether false summaries of news headlines that appear almost identical to regular
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The two founders jousted for years. This week, they found each other on X while their rocket companies launched missions with mixed results. Read more ›
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SpaceX launched its Starship mega-rocket for the seventh time. There were plenty of noteworthy firsts that set this event apart from the rest. Read more ›
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Bondi, who's been working as a lobbyist and a consultant in recent years, reported a net worth of $12.1 million. Read more ›
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The influential creator of surreal TV series Twin Peaks, as well as the director of Eraserhead, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and more feature films was 78 years old. Read more ›
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The "Deadpool" franchise is named in Justin Baldoni's new lawsuit against "It Ends With Us" costar Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds. Here's why. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's company saw mixed results today, with Starship's booster sticking the landing while the upper stage failed during ascent. Read more ›
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Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, and Zach Cherry star in the Apple TV+ sci-fi show. Read more ›
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Yesterday the first details regarding the upcoming Realme P3 Pro leaked, and today the 'vanilla' Realme P3 has received the same treatment. The P3 will have 5G support and will be offered in three RAM/storage combos: 6/128GB in Nebula Pink and Comet Grey, 8/128GB in Nebula Pink, Comet Grey, and Space Silver, and 8/256GB in Comet Grey and Space Silver. It boasts a 50 MP main rear camera and a... Read more ›
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Paddington might be heading to Peru, but good luck finding a cuddly version of him on U.S. store shelves. Read more ›
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The world’s richest man got his feelings hurt by a ‘professional neckbeard’ who plays video games all day. Read more ›
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Apple is making several changes following complaints that its AI-powered notification summaries were inscrutable or just plain wrong. Read more ›
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Make sure your experience and razor quality for a smooth and close shave is top notch with these shaving clubs. Read more ›
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The Starship's seventh test flight ended in an explosion when the vehicle's upper stage "experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn" over the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX chief Elon Musk posted a video of the event, with debris streaking across and lighting up the sky. During the company's webcast, Dan Huot from SpaceX's communications team said they "saw engines dropping out on telemetry" by the end of the ascent... Read more ›
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Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from TikTok. Read more ›
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CarPlay picks up a little market share among music streamers, but Android Auto's penetration is down. Read more ›
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L1 and L2 cache specs have been revealed for the RTX 5090 and 5080 featuring only a minor improvement over the RTX 4090 and 4080. Read more ›
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Meta is cutting roughly 5% of its staff through performance-based eliminations and plans to hire new people to fill their roles this year, according to a company memo. From a report: As of September, Meta employed about 72,000 people, so a 5% reduction could affect roughly 3,600 jobs. "I've decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster," Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said in the... Read more ›
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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open-source Instagram competitor, labeling them as "spam" on Facebook and removing them immediately. 404 Media reports: Pixelfed is an open-source, community funded and decentralized image sharing platform that runs on Activity Pub, which is the same technology that supports Mastodon and other federated services. Pixelfed.social is the largest Pixelfed server, which was launched in 2018 but has gained renewed attention over the... Read more ›
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ChatGPT can now schedule reminders and recurring tasks -- but only if you're a ChatGPT Plus, Team, or Pro subscriber. TechCrunch reports: With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such as, "Remind me when my passport expires in six months," and the AI assistant will follow up with a push notification on whatever platform you have tasks enabled. Users can also now set recurring requests to ChatGPT, such... Read more ›
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"I know, I know: 'Year of the Linux desktop ... yadda, yadda'," writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. "You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want..." He's talking about Nvidia's newly-announced Project Digits, describing it as "a desktop with AI supercomputer power that runs DGX OS, a customized Ubuntu Linux 22.04 distro." Powered by MediaTek and Nvidia's Grace Blackwell Superchip,... Read more ›
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OpenAI's "reasoning" AI model, o1, has exhibited a puzzling behavior of "thinking" in Chinese, Persian, or some other language -- "even when asked a question in English," reports TechCrunch. While the exact cause remains unclear, as OpenAI has yet to provide an explanation, AI experts have proposed a few theories. From the report: Several on X, including Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue, alluded to the fact that reasoning models like... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Apple's innovation record and business practices in a Joe Rogan podcast interview on January 10, claiming the iPhone maker has not "invented anything great in a while" and is "just sitting" on its flagship product 20 years after Steve Jobs created it. Zuckerberg accused Apple of using arbitrary App Store rules and 30% developer fees to offset declining iPhone sales. He also said Apple blocks... Read more ›
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Roseltorg, Russia's main electronic trading platform for government and corporate procurement, confirmed it was targeted by a cyberattack claimed by the pro-Ukraine hacker group Yellow Drift. The group allegedly deleted 550 terabytes of data, causing significant operational delays and client concerns. The Record reports: The company initially confirmed last Thursday that its services had been temporarily suspended, without providing further details. In a recent Telegram statement, Roseltorg disclosed that i Read more ›
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SC Media reports on a new jailbreak method for large language models (LLMs) that "takes advantage of models' ability to identify and score harmful content in order to trick the models into generating content related to malware, illegal activity, harassment and more. "The 'Bad Likert Judge' multi-step jailbreak technique was developed and tested by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, and was found to increase the success rate of jailbreak attempts... Read more ›
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Executives and researchers leading Meta's AI efforts obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 model while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages unsealed by a court in one of the company's ongoing AI copyright cases, Kadrey v. Meta. From a report: "Honestly... Our goal needs to be GPT-4," said Meta's VP of Generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, in an October 2023 message to Meta researcher Hugo Touvron. "We have 64k GPUs coming!... Read more ›
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"What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway?" asks the New York Times, saying a pending ban in America "is vague on how it would be enforced" Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical loopholes that millions of Americans could find ways to keep TikTok'ing. The law is "Swiss cheese with lots... Read more ›
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