Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest $2.1B in Spain in the next two years to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in the country (Reuters)

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest .1B in Spain in the next two years to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in the country (Reuters)

Reuters: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest $2.1B in Spain in the next two years to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in the country — U.S. software giant Microsoft (MSFT.O) will expand its artificial intelligence… Continue Reading →

20/02/2024

Google stopped notifying publishers of “right to be forgotten” removals, after a Swedish court ruled that informing webmasters is a breach of privacy (Alex Hern/The Guardian)

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Google stopped notifying publishers of "right to be forgotten" removals, after a Swedish court ruled that informing webmasters is a breach of privacy (Alex Hern/The Guardian)

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Alex Hern / The Guardian: Google stopped notifying publishers of “right to be forgotten” removals, after a Swedish court ruled that informing webmasters is a breach of privacy — Move after Swedish court rules that informing webmasters about delisted content… Continue Reading →

17/02/2024

Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the state of the platform, its future, collaborating with Meta on ActivityPub, Bluesky’s AT protocol, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Platformer)

<div>Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the state of the platform, its future, collaborating with Meta on ActivityPub, Bluesky's AT protocol, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Platformer)</div>

Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: Q&A with Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko on the state of the platform, its future, collaborating with Meta on ActivityPub, Bluesky’s AT protocol, and more — Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and… Continue Reading →

13/02/2024

Elon Musk switches the location of Neuralink’s incorporation from Delaware to Nevada, after a Delaware judge struck down Musk’s $55B Tesla pay package last week (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

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Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Elon Musk switches the location of Neuralink’s incorporation from Delaware to Nevada, after a Delaware judge struck down Musk’s $55B Tesla pay package last week — – Billionaire has fraught history with Delaware legal system —… Continue Reading →

10/02/2024

Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup Starship Technologies raised $90M co-led by Plural and Iconical, bringing its total raised to $230M (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup Starship Technologies raised M co-led by Plural and Iconical, bringing its total raised to 0M (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup Starship Technologies raised $90M co-led by Plural and Iconical, bringing its total raised to $230M — The delivery robots have travelled over 11 million miles and completed over six million autonomous… Continue Reading →

06/02/2024

Hugging Face launches HuggingChat Assistants, allowing users to create customized AI chatbots with specific capabilities using LLMs like Mixtral or Llama2 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Hugging Face launches HuggingChat Assistants, allowing users to create customized AI chatbots with specific capabilities using LLMs like Mixtral or Llama2 — Hugging Face, the New York City-based startup that offers a popular, developer-focused repository for… Continue Reading →

03/02/2024

Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders (Theo Francis/Wall Street Journal)

Reed Hastings donates .1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders (Theo Francis/Wall Street Journal)

Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: Reed Hastings donates $1.1B worth of his Netflix shares, or ~40% of his stake, to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a popular charity among tech founders — Reed Hastings donates to foundation with $10 billion… Continue Reading →

30/01/2024

Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

<div>Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)</div>

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Interview with Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín on preparing Meta for a critical year in elections, the weaponization of social platforms, and more — WIRED spoke with a member of Meta’s Oversight Board about… Continue Reading →

27/01/2024

The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as “free” unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as "free" unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as “free” unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading — Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered… Continue Reading →

23/01/2024

Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17 (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17 — Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds… Continue Reading →

20/01/2024

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