Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain ( www.techspot.com )
Proton Mail assisted Spanish authorities in identifying and arresting a member of the Catalan independence organization Democratic Tsunami....
Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage ( www.ghacks.net )
Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and...
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them ( arstechnica.com )
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot ( arstechnica.com )
Hello GPT-4o ( openai.com )
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI
This may be an unpopular opinnion.....
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams ( arstechnica.com )
Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is undermining rivals to its videoconferencing app Teams....
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams ( arstechnica.com )
Microsoft Places uses AI to find the best time for your next office day ( www.theverge.com )
Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option ( www.theverge.com )
Expectations Versus Reality ( www.wheresyoured.at )
Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira ( investors.squarespace.com )
Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...
World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Superyacht Embodies Eco-Conscious Luxury ( nicenews.com )
Bloomberg - Apple Says No Major App Developers Accept New Outside Payments ( www.bloomberg.com )
According to Apple, only 38 developers have applied to add such links — out of roughly 65,000 that could.
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/0KvTq
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion ( www.arktrek.shop )
Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more ( www.tomshardware.com )
Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company ( www.reuters.com )
May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform....
Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon ( english.elpais.com )
Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED ( www.wired.com )
Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air ( 9to5mac.com )
On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.
1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...