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The Morning After: Apple’s car project may be dead
28 Feb

The Morning After: Apple’s car project may be dead

John RoutledgeLatest News
After roughly a decade, multiple leadership changes and a regular spot in Apple rumor reports, the Apple Car project, internally known as Project Titan, could well be dead. A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple has officially canceled the car, breaking the news to nearly 2,000 employees working on it.Apple will reportedly move “many employees working on the…
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This is what the Nothing Phone 2(a) looks like
28 Feb

This is what the Nothing Phone 2(a) looks like

John RoutledgeLatest News
Nothing's drip feed of specs and line drawings gets us to this point. At MWC 2024, the company finally revealed its next phone in the flesh during its MWC soiree. Sadly, it was in a glass box — which seems to be the not-great trend of this year's Mobile World Congress. But, for a phone seemingly pitched as its cheapest device…
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Biden signs executive order to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data
28 Feb

Biden signs executive order to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data

John RoutledgeLatest News
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans’ personal data to “countries of concern,” including Russia and China. The order specifically targets the bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial, biometric, health and other personally identifying information.During a briefing with reporters, a senior administration official said that the sale of such data to…
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Nintendo lawsuit accuses Switch emulator creators of ‘piracy at a colossal scale’
28 Feb

Nintendo lawsuit accuses Switch emulator creators of ‘piracy at a colossal scale’

John RoutledgeLatest News
Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against the creators of a popular Switch emulator called Yuzu, which gives users a way to play games developed for the platform on their PCs and Android devices. In the lawsuit shared by Game File's Stephen Totilo, the company argued that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Nintendo…
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Google is reportedly paying publishers thousands of dollars to use its AI to write stories
27 Feb

Google is reportedly paying publishers thousands of dollars to use its AI to write stories

John RoutledgeLatest News
Google has been quietly striking deals with some publishers to use new generative AI tools to publish stories, according to a report in Adweek. The deals, reportedly worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, are apparently part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a six-year-old program that funds media literacy projects, fact-checking tools, and other resources for newsrooms. But…
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The Apple Car project is reportedly dead
27 Feb

The Apple Car project is reportedly dead

John RoutledgeLatest News
Ten years, billions of dollars, multiple leadership changes, and dozens of rumors later, the Apple Car project is dead. A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that Apple has officially canceled the car, breaking the news to nearly 2,000 employees who had been working on it on Tuesday.As part of the change, Apple will move “many employees working on…
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Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training
27 Feb

Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training

John RoutledgeLatest News
Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. 404 Media reports that the platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models.It isn’t clear which data will be included, but the report suggests Automattic may have overreached…
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