Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, and Infineon form a new company in Germany to promote the open-source RISC-V chip architecture, initially targeting the auto industry (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
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Qualcomm, NXP Team Up to Develop Rival to Arm Chip Standard
Qualcomm Inc., NXP Semiconductors NV and other chipmakers are forming a new company to hasten the development of RISC-V, a standard that could chal...
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Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, and Infineon form a German company to promote the open-source RISC-V chip architecture, initially targeting auto, and then mobile and IoT
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Some experts say trolls who built businesses and media careers on Twitter have had to escalate shock value tactics as the audience of "normal people" shrinks (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
The business model depends on "triggering" liberals β€” but they're running out of progressives to bait
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Some experts say trolls who built businesses and media careers on Twitter have had to escalate their shock value tactics as “normal people” continue to leave
By Amanda Marcotte / Salon. View the full context on Techmeme.
As Meta starts blocking news links and sharing on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, a look at the harm that Bill C-18 will do to the country's media sector (Michael Geist)
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The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking News Links on Facebook and Instagram in Canada - Michael Geist
For months, supporters of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, assured the government that Meta and Google were bluffing when they warned that a bill ba...
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As Meta blocks news links and sharing on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, a look at how Bill C-18 could cause millions in losses for the country
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Elon Musk says X will amend its creator payouts policy to take no cut until a payout exceeds $100K, and plans to talk to Tim Cook about lower App Store fees (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
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Elon Musk says X plans to amend its creator payouts policy to take no cut until “payout exceeds $100K” and ask Tim Cook for Apple
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Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow plans to detail P2P protocol Veilid, to encrypt social media and apps, at Def Con next week, its biggest release in 10 years (Joseph Menn/Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/02/encryption-dead-cow-cult-apps-def-con/
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Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow plans to detail Veilid, a framework to encrypt social media and apps, at Def Con on August 11, its biggest launch in 10+ years
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Apple removes many generative AI apps from its China App Store, supposedly over 100, ahead of China's new generative AI rules taking effect on August 15 (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
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Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of new regulations | TechCrunch
China has imposed licensing requirements on other areas of the internet, such as video games, and it remains to be seen what criteria will be neede...
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Apple removes many generative AI apps from its China App Store, supposedly over 100, ahead of China
By Rita Liao / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Amazon will require streaming services on Fire TV to give 30% of their ad impressions to Amazon, or in certain countries share 30% of ad revenue, from Sept. 1 (Matthew Keys/Fierce Wireless)
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Amazon modifies ad revenue, impressions share policy for international Fire TV apps
Amazon will soon require international app developers who offer ad-supported streaming video services available to Fire TV users to opt into their ...
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Amazon will require streaming services on Fire TV to give 30% of their ad impressions to Amazon, or in certain countries share 30% of ad revenue, from Sept. 1
By Matthew Keys / Fierce Wireless. View the full context on Techmeme.
Twitter/X threatens to sue Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the nonprofit made "troubling and baseless claims" to hurt Twitter and its ad business (New York Times)
Twitter Sues Nonprofit That Tracks Hate Speech (Published 2023)
The Center for Countering Digital Hate said it had received a letter from X, Twitter’s parent company, accusing it of trying to hurt the social p...
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Twitter/X files a lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate, accusing the nonprofit and its backers of “actively working to prevent free expression”
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After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
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Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt
His style has been requested over 400,000 times, even surpassing legends like Picasso and Da Vinciβ€”all without his consent.
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After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models
By Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt. View the full context on Techmeme.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, and others are testing the use of "synthetic data", as they find generic data from the web is no longer good enough for training LLMs (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times) https://t.co/Q9lu0TR0qA
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Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, and others are testing using “synthetic data” as developers find generic data from the web is no longer good enough for training LLMs
By Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.