It's all change at Apple as design chief Alan Dye leaves the company for Meta. For his blog, artist and designer @Louie Mantia, Jr. writes about how this, and the departure of iPhone designer Jony Ive in 2019, might not be a bad thing. Why? Under their tenure, Manton argues, "Apple shifted away from making products 'for the rest of us' and started making products that appealed specifically to rich people."

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The U.S. State Department is instructing its staff to reject H-1B visa applications from anyone who has worked on fact-checking or content moderation, according to an internal memo sent this week. "If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa, the memo says. Here's more from [@npr](

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According to new filings discovered by the Wall Street Journal, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is set to own 93.4 percent of Electronic Arts if the proposed $55B acquisition goes through. Here's more from Eurogamer.

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EA will be almost entirely owned by Saudi Arabia if sale goes through, according to new filing

EA will be almost entirely owned by Saudi Arabia if sale goes through, according to new filing.

#ElectronicArts #EA #Gaming #VideoGames #GamesIndustry #SaudiArabia #PIF

How is AI really impacting jobs? @Brian Merchant writes for Blood in the Machine about what the numbers are saying: "Generative AI is not reliable enough when it comes executing complex tasks to enable most organizations to displace jobs at scale, and it certainly can’t do jobs that require empathy or hands-on problem-solving," he writes. "What it can do is automate the production of work that need not be 'reliable' or 'accurate,' but that employers might find 'good enough.' Precisely the way many corporate executives already conceive of creative work, in other words."

What’s really going on with AI and jobs?

Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

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India mandates pre-installation of government cyber safety app on all smartphones. [@AssociatedPress](

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India mandates pre-installation of government cyber safety app on all smartphones

India’s telecoms ministry has ordered smartphone manufacturers to install a government-run cybersecurity app on all new devices.

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The Shopify app is down, with around 4,000 retailers reporting issues with the site on one of the busiest retail days of the year. Here's more from [@Independent](

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Shopify down as outage reports pour in from around the world on Cyber Monday

Thousands of stores started reporting problems with logging into their accounts at around 9 a.m. ET

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Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark. CNBC reports: "Runway said Gen 4.5 is good at understanding physics, human motion, camera movements and cause and effect."

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Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark

Gen 4.5, a new AI model that allows users to generate high-definition videos based on written prompts.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #OpenAI #Video

From CNBC: How a sense of nostalgia and chic led to the development of a landline-style phone that can reduce your amount of screen time.

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Tech founder built a landline-style phone to help reduce her screentime—she sold $120,000 of them in 3 days

Cat Goetze, who goes by CatGPT online, launched Physical Phones to help people spend less time on their smartphones.

#Tech #Devices #Phones #Mobile #Technology #LoFi

Do you hear those bells ringing? It’s the sound of stress that is already wafting into the gift-giver’s mind. Fortunately, there’s help. Read about the app that just might lift some of that holiday stress off your shoulders. Read more from [@TechRadar](

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I can feel the gift list stress already, but this smart app could calm me down

Homescreen Heroes: Giftster brings much-needed organization to gift-giving.

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Is AI sexist? Probably. But getting it to confess is another story. [@Techcrunch](

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No, you can't get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is anyway | TechCrunch

Though LLMs might not use explicitly biased language, they may infer your demographic data and display implicit biases, researchers say.

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