Google to shut Nest Secure, Dropcam in 2024

Google has said that it will end the support for the Nest Secure and the Dropcam home security system starting April 8, 2024. Until that date, all current features will remain available and users can continue using their Nest Secure and Dropcam as they do now. "All features will remain available until April 8, 2024. Dropcam will no longer work after that date, and you will no longer be able to use your Nest app to check status," Google said in a blogpost. https://ift.tt/VGcZg04

Japan to add $2.3 billion subsidy to Rapidus for Chitose chip plant: Media

Japan's industry ministry is finalising a plan to provide state-backed chip maker Rapidus an additional 300 billion yen ($2.27 billion) in funding to build a semiconductor plant in the northern island of Hokkaido, a local paper reported on Saturday. Rapidus, which in February picked Chitose, near Sapporo, as the site for a cutting-edge two-nanometre chip factory, previously secured an initial 70 billion yen funding from the government. https://ift.tt/CX40Fd9

As Congress weighs regulating AI, consumer advocates and the tech industry converge on Washington, DC to influence US lawmakers, most of whom lack AI expertise (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
As Congress weighs regulating AI, consumer advocates and the tech industry converge on Washington, DC to influence US lawmakers, most of whom lack AI expertise  —  After years of inaction on Big Tech — and the explosive success of ChatGPT — lawmakers aim to avoid similar mistakes with artificial intelligence

In a reversal, Twitter lets users like and retweet Substack links, but searches including "Substack" still return results for just "newsletter" instead (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
In a reversal, Twitter lets users like and retweet Substack links, but searches including “Substack” still return results for just “newsletter” instead  —  In a reversal of a limitation the platform put in place earlier in the week, Twitter is once again allowing users to interact with Substack links freely.

A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms  —  Big companies are hiring an ever-larger proportion of America's inventors, who are less productive once they join

Sources: in the past two weeks ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings on the risks of unionization, using the state of the Towson store as a cautionary tale (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: in the past two weeks ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings on the risks of unionization, using the state of the Towson store as a cautionary tale  —  Apple is continuing its push to keep retail stores from unionizing.  Also: A deep look inside efforts to diversify the company's product …

An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout (Nathan Lambert/Democratizing Automation)

Nathan Lambert / Democratizing Automation:
An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout  —  Fear, FOMO, and the scientific exodus driven by ChatGPT  —  Every single person I know working in AI these days …

An interview with Victor Wong, Google's senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple's ATT, and more (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
An interview with Victor Wong, Google's senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple's ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here's an exclusive peek into how it will work.

Twitter replaces the "state-affiliated media" label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as "government funded" (Aidan McLaughlin/Mediaite)

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Twitter replaces the “state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “government funded”  —  Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR's account this week, replacing …

Twitter changes the label on NPR's account to "Government Funded" after criticism about adding a "US state-affiliated media" label (Bobby Allyn/@BobbyAllyn)

Bobby Allyn / @BobbyAllyn:
Twitter changes the label on NPR's account to “Government Funded” after criticism about adding a “US state-affiliated media” label  —  The body of the article goes here.

Elon Musk claims Twitter never blocked Substack links and it was "trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone" (Matt Novak/Forbes)

Matt Novak / Forbes:
Elon Musk claims Twitter never blocked Substack links and it was “trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone”  —  Elon Musk broke his silence about the Twitter CEO's conflict with the online publishing site Substack and one of its biggest writers Matt Taibbi on Saturday.

Bob Lee's death in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the tech community to become more involved in city politics (New York Times)

New York Times:
Bob Lee's death in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the tech community to become more involved in city politics  —  Bob Lee's death has stirred outrage among tech leaders and comes at a precarious time for the industry — and the city it calls home.

Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers' cash after the failure of Signature Bank and is using at least one middleman to store funds (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers' cash after the failure of Signature Bank and is using at least one middleman to store funds  —  As a stopgap, the exchange is using at least one middleman to store user funds on its behalf  —  The U.S. affiliate …

A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Joel Khalili / Wired:
A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates  —  US agencies are sparring over who gets to oversee the crypto industry, and companies are stuck in the middle.

MSI confirms in a filing that it was breached, without giving many details, after a ransomware gang claims to have breached MSI and stolen its source code (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag:
MSI confirms in a filing that it was breached, without giving many details, after a ransomware gang claims to have breached MSI and stolen its source code  —  The ransomware group is reportedly demanding $4 million or it will leak the stolen data, which includes company source code.