Vivo Y36 4G spotted on Bluetooth SIG certification: Likely specs and more

Vivo Y36 is reportedly in the works. The company is working on adding other smartphones under its Y-series of smartphones. Vivo Y36 4G will succeed the Vivo Y35, launched in August 2022. While we await an official announcement, the device has been listed on the Bluetooth SIG certification revealing some key details. https://ift.tt/C43aLPR

A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

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A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more  —  “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”

As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material (New York Times)

New York Times:
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek to regulate the use of AI-produced material  —  As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.

Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents  —  Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet

An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient  —  - Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter.  — Since ex-Oracle exec Thomas …

Sources describe how Meta's managers built "legions of kingdoms" as headcount doubled and declining morale, confidence in Zuckerberg's leadership after layoffs (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)

Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Sources describe how Meta's managers built “legions of kingdoms” as headcount doubled and declining morale, confidence in Zuckerberg's leadership after layoffs  —  Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce

Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14  —  Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.

Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors (Nidhi Subbaraman/Wall Street Journal)

Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal:
Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors  —  Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries

Sources: Arm has filed with regulators confidentially for a US IPO, seeking to raise between $8B and $10B on Nasdaq later this year (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: Arm has filed with regulators confidentially for a US IPO, seeking to raise between $8B and $10B on Nasdaq later this year  —  SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday …

India's Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering probe (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India's Enforcement Directorate searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran as part of an anti-money laundering probe  —  India's crime-fighting agency searched three premises of edtech giant Byju's and its founder Byju Raveendran, it said Saturday …

Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is supporting 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is supporting 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own  —  It's not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned  —  A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims …

US lawmakers propose bill to ban AI from launching nuclear weapons

A group of US lawmakers have proposed a bill to stop artificial intelligence (AI)-driven autonomous systems from single-handedly launching nuclear weapons, as fears arise on the potential threat of AI taking a decision on its own. https://ift.tt/EIYMKwm

Six months since Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, a brief overview of Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Six months since Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, a brief overview of Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve  —  Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems …

Windows 10’s ‘expiry date’ announced, here's how you can move to Windows 11

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WhatsApp Web not able to detect QR code? Try these fixes

WhatsApp allows its users to use its instant messaging service on a PC via WhatsApp Web. However, the QR code displayed on the computer screen may not always get detected by the smartphone camera, leading to difficulty in the linking process. https://ift.tt/UaSrI4L