Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Meta says it is weeks away from announcing its decision on reinstating Trump, who continues to harass 2020 election workers by name, as recently as last week — The platform cut Trump's indefinite suspension to two years at the urging of its Oversight Board. But that doesn't mean he's coming back.
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Sunday, January 8, 2023
Meta says it is weeks away from announcing its decision on reinstating Trump, who continues to harass 2020 election workers by name, as recently as last week (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating "deep synthesis" tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)
Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal:
The Cyberspace Administration of China will start regulating “deep synthesis” tech like AI-powered image, audio and text-generation software starting next week — Beijing is among the first governments to regulate hyper-realistic, AI-generated media
The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
The economic downturn is hurting the creator economy, one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade, in particular since its middle class hasn't yet emerged — We're seeing the truth about one of the most-hyped sectors of the past decade. — After years of hype, the Creator Economy is slamming into reality.
Sources: Apple's headset "Reality Pro" to be unveiled this spring, before WWDC; new Mac Pro will have the same design as current Intel model, no expandable RAM (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's headset “Reality Pro” to be unveiled this spring, before WWDC; new Mac Pro will have the same design as current Intel model, no expandable RAM — 2023 is set to be the year of Apple's mixed-reality headset and not much else. Also: The company hikes battery …
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Mojo Vision, which demonstrated a working prototype of its smart contact lenses in 2022, pivots to focus on micro-LED display tech and lays off 75% of staff (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios:
Mojo Vision, which demonstrated a working prototype of its smart contact lenses in 2022, pivots to focus on micro-LED display tech and lays off 75% of staff — Mojo Vision, a startup that had embarked on a years-long effort to create a smart contact lens with a built-in display …
GPTZero, an app made by a Princeton student to detect if an academic essay was written by a human or by OpenAI's ChatGPT, goes viral (Tony Ho Tran/The Daily Beast)
Tony Ho Tran / The Daily Beast:
GPTZero, an app made by a Princeton student to detect if an academic essay was written by a human or by OpenAI's ChatGPT, goes viral — “Humans deserve to know when the writing isn't human.” — Deputy Editor, Innovation & Tech … Edward Tian was fast asleep when his bot broke a website.
A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name (Brandy Zadrozny/NBC News)
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name — Growing concerns over impact of medical misinformation on public health — When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning …
Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI's GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other productivity apps (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Sources: Microsoft is working on incorporating existing and future versions of OpenAI's GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other productivity apps — In a move that could change how more than a billion people write documents, presentations and emails, Microsoft has discussed incorporating …
Android 14 may change phone's share menu
Samsung confirms to launch Galaxy S23 series on Feb 1
Friday, January 6, 2023
Sources: Taiwan's space agency plans a low-earth orbit satellite communications project to help resist any attacks by China, inspired by Starlink in Ukraine (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times)
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Sources: Taiwan's space agency plans a low-earth orbit satellite communications project to help resist any attacks by China, inspired by Starlink in Ukraine — Country wants to emulate Elon Musk's Starlink in wake of Ukraine war with low-Earth orbit start-up
Twitter hasn't paid severance to employees Elon Musk fired
Crypto exchange Huobi plans to lay off 20% of its ~1,100 staff, citing the "bear market"; CoinGecko: Huobi had the 8th largest exchange volume in November 2022 (Reuters)
Reuters:
Crypto exchange Huobi plans to lay off 20% of its ~1,100 staff, citing the “bear market”; CoinGecko: Huobi had the 8th largest exchange volume in November 2022 — Crypto exchange Huobi plans to lay off about 20% of its staff, the company told Reuters on Friday …
Salesforce's layoffs hit Tableau, acquired for $15.7B in 2019, harder than other divisions, after CEO Mark Nelson was ousted in late December 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Salesforce's layoffs hit Tableau, acquired for $15.7B in 2019, harder than other divisions, after CEO Mark Nelson was ousted in late December 2022 — Salesforce Inc. division Tableau was hit harder than other units in the company's largest-ever round of jobs cuts this week …
Kuo: due to development issues, Apple is "more likely" to debut its mixed-reality headset in the spring or at WWDC than in January as previously predicted (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Kuo: due to development issues, Apple is “more likely” to debut its mixed-reality headset in the spring or at WWDC than in January as previously predicted — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a tweet thread today that ongoing delays with development of Apple's mixed-reality headset …
Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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