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Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract

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TikTok's efforts to silo US data are 'largely cosmetic'

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Tesla putting Musk pay package up for another vote after judge voided first one

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Tesla is asking shareholders to vote for a second time on Elon Musk’s massive compensation package,...
Tesla is asking shareholders to vote for a second time on Elon Musk’s massive compensation package, after a Delaware judge voided the first one earlier this year on the grounds that the approval process was “deeply flawed.”Tesla shareholders approved the package in 2018, which gave Musk incentive to hit specific mil...
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The Cloud Under the Sea

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Apr 16, 2024, 2:00PM UTC On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief...
Apr 16, 2024, 2:00PM UTC On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something — you rarely knew wha...
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Taking CO2 out of the air would be an expensive way to fight climate change

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Attempting to filter enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to make a significant impact on...
Attempting to filter enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to make a significant impact on climate change would require hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending, according to a new report. The suite of technologies emerging to attempt that task all fall under an umbrella called carbon dioxide rem...
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US finalizes rules for 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized rules for the amount of certain “forever chemicals” allowed...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized rules for the amount of certain “forever chemicals” allowed in drinking water. This is the first time the US has placed legally enforceable federal limits on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), chemicals so ubiquitous that they’ve likely already made th...
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Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

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Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets

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Google says it will start removing links to California news websites in a “short term test...
Google says it will start removing links to California news websites in a “short term test for a small percentage of California users.” The move is in response to the pending California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), which would require Google to pay a fee for linking Californians to news articles. “If passed, ...
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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

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Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and...
Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi and has completely disabled their lead developers’ accounts — and the company isn’t answering our questions about why it went that far. Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of exi...
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X's Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks

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Humane AI Pin review: not even close

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The idea behind the Humane AI Pin is a simple one: it’s a phone without a...
The idea behind the Humane AI Pin is a simple one: it’s a phone without a screen. Instead of asking you to open apps and tap on a keyboard, this little wearable abstracts everything away behind an AI assistant and an operating system Humane calls CosmOS. Want to make a phone call, send a text message, calculate the ...
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I'm still trying to generate an AI Asian man and white woman

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I inadvertently found myself on the AI-generated Asian people beat this past week. Last Wednesday, I...
I inadvertently found myself on the AI-generated Asian people beat this past week. Last Wednesday, I found that Meta’s AI image generator built into Instagram messaging completely failed at creating an image of an Asian man and white woman using general prompts. Instead, it changed the woman’s race to Asian every ti...
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A new bill wants to reveal what's inside AI training data

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A new bill would compel tech companies to disclose any copyrighted materials that are used to...
A new bill would compel tech companies to disclose any copyrighted materials that are used to train their AI models.The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure bill from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) would require anyone making a training dataset for AI to submit reports on its contents to the Copyrights Register. The reports ...
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Texas is replacing human exam graders with AI

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Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for...
Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system set to replace a majority of human graders in the region.The Texas Tribune reports an “automated scoring engine” that utilizes natural language processing — the technol...
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Kobo announces its first color e-readers

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Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara...
Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido color screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in color.I’ll be testing both e-readers soon, ...
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With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work

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For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers,...
For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides. Now Google is proposing to add another to that triumvirate: an app called Vids that aims to help companies and consumers make collaborative, shareable video more eas...
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Elon Musk says his posts did more to 'financially impair' X than help it

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Elon Musk admitted that his posts on the platform formerly known as Twitter may have financially...
Elon Musk admitted that his posts on the platform formerly known as Twitter may have financially harmed the company in the long run, in a March 27th deposition made public on Monday by The Huffington Post. The billionaire also admitted to have a “limited understanding” of the lawsuit for which he was being deposed. ...
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OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4

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Microsoft confident Windows on Arm could beat Apple with Snapdragon X Elite

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Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an...
Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an event in Seattle. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that Microsoft is confident that a round of new Arm-powered Windows laptops will beat Apple’s M3-powered MacBook Air both in CPU performance and AI-accelerated ...
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Canadians are asking their government to federate

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Best Buy Geek Squad employees report mass layoffs

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Google is working on a 'lookup' button for unknown callers on Android

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Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked...
Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been part of our lives for a decade: a way to look up a phone number that just called you, right from your recent calls screen. X user AssembleDebug tipped off PiunikaWeb to a new “Lookup” button in the beta version of the Goog...
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Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills

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Roku's idea of showing ads on your HDMI inputs seems like an inevitable hell

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In this week’s edition of his Lowpass newsletter, Janko Roettgers covered a Roku patent that seems...
In this week’s edition of his Lowpass newsletter, Janko Roettgers covered a Roku patent that seems to telegraph that the company is planning some heavy advertising tactics for those who purchase Roku TV televisions. The patent centers around the idea of displaying ads on these TVs whenever they’re tuned to an HDMI i...
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