Sunday, August 11, 2024

AMD releases updates to mitigate the "Sinkclose" vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:
AMD releases updates to mitigate the “Sinkclose” vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs  —  AMD says some chips fall outside of the software support window.  —  AMD processors dating back to 2006 reportedly suffer …



A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement  —  On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is strictly prohibited.  —  Imagine an online community where substantive debates …



Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Zack Abrams / The Block:
Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market  —  - Celsius filed a lawsuit against Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back Bitcoin worth $2.4 billion that the company …



Saturday, August 10, 2024

Just two of OpenAI's 11-strong founding team are active at OpenAI, after a series of exits in 2024 following the attempted boardroom coup against Sam Altman (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Just two of OpenAI's 11-strong founding team are active at OpenAI, after a series of exits in 2024 following the attempted boardroom coup against Sam Altman  —  Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year



X adds the ability to sort replies, letting users choose most relevant, most recent, or most liked replies; it is unclear how the most relevant option works (Matt Binder/Mashable)

Matt Binder / Mashable:
X adds the ability to sort replies, letting users choose most relevant, most recent, or most liked replies; it is unclear how the most relevant option works  —  Sorry, blue checks, it seems like you will no longer dominate users' mentions on X.  —  Thanks to a new feature, “blue checks” may no longer dominate reply threads on X.



An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube  —  Ms. Wojcicki, who helped start Google, was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley before stepping down from YouTube.



Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more  —  We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia's connection with the volunteers who create it.



Friday, August 9, 2024

The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)

Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1  —  X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.



A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants  —  The Chips Program Office is tasked with overseeing one of the most ambitious manufacturing comebacks in US history



Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bans X in the country for ten days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to promote hatred after Venezuela's disputed election (Reuters)

Reuters:
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bans X in the country for ten days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to promote hatred after Venezuela's disputed election  —  Maduro said he signed a resolution presented by regulator Conatel which “has decided to take social network X, formerly known as Twitter, out of circulation for 10 days.”



Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation  —  Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques



California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning "addictive feeds", barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more (Taryn Luna/Los Angeles Times)

Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times : California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning “addictive feeds”, barring socia...