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Mon. 12/05 – Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT Dec 05, 2022

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Maybe put the breaks on an early release of that Apple AR/VR headset. And maybe pump the breaks on the AI excitement as Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT. A security issue at Rackspace. Are the Winkivii in trouble? And why has Sam Bankman Fried not been arrested yet?

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Kuo: Apple Headset Shipments Potentially Delayed Until Second Half of 2023 (MacRumors)
Foxconn sees COVID-hit China plant back at full output in late Dec-early Jan -source (Reuters)
Rackspace rocked by ‘security incident’ that has taken out hosted Exchange services (The Register)
AI-generated answers temporarily banned on coding Q&A site Stack Overflow (The Verge)
Crypto broker Genesis owes Winklevoss exchange’s customers $900mn (Financial Times)
Why Hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested Yet? (Intelligencer)

Fri. 12/02 – Will 2023 Be The Year Of The Headset Wars? Dec 02, 2022

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Mark Gurman has details on Apple ramping up development of its mixed-reality headset, targeting a launch next year. Elon has had to block his friend Ye from Twitter. Future is shutting down. Airplane mode might be a thing of the past soon. Is Nikola Tesla’s dream of wireless electrical transmission about to be a reality? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Apple Renames Mixed-Reality Software ‘xrOS’ in Sign Headset Is Approaching (Bloomberg)
Kanye West isn’t buying Parler after all (TechCrunch)
Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down (Insider)
Payments giant Stripe jumps into Web3 with tool that helps companies turn cash to crypto (Fortune Crypto)
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for building serverless apps (TechCrunch)
No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights (BBC News)
Silicon Valley startup beaming electricity wirelessly raises $30 million (Reuters)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

Generative AI: autocomplete for everything (Noahpinion)
Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI (The Atlantic)
The Grown-Up Art of Andor (The New Republic)
A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s (New Yorker)

Thu. 12/01 – Elon And Apple Bury The Hatchet? Dec 01, 2022

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A summary of last night’s Sam Bankman Fried show. Elon visits Tim Cook and maybe they buried the hatchet? Now OpenAI has released a chat bot. Neuralink says it’s going to start implanting into humans very soon. And Arizona is gonna get the good stuff when it comes to chips.

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FTX Missing Billions Remain Mystery After Bankman-Fried Grilling (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk Meets With Apple CEO Tim Cook Amid Claims of Twitter App Store Dispute [Updated] (MacRumors)
Musk at Twitter has 'huge work' ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc (TechCrunch)
While everyone waits for GPT-4, OpenAI is still fixing its predecessor (MIT Technology Review)
Musk’s Neuralink Hopes to Implant Computer in Human Brain in Six Months (Bloomberg)
Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger (or Older) (Gizmodo)
TSMC Plans to Make More Advanced Chips in US at Urging of Apple (Bloomberg)

Wed. 11/30 – Am I On Your Spotify Wrapped This Year? Nov 30, 2022

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The Covid lockdown at that Foxconn factory has lifted. The surprising strength of the smartwatch sector. The surprising failure of the Kindle Scribe. Gorilla Glass Victus 2. And Sony has an actual new idea for the Metaverse.

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China’s Zhengzhou, home to world’s largest iPhone factory, ends Covid lockdown. Other cities do the same (CNN Business)
India Becomes Biggest Smartwatch Market in Q3 2022 (Counterpoint)
Amazon Security Lake is a standards-based data lake for security data (TechCrunch)
Amazon Kindle Scribe review: absolutely adequate (The Verge)
Apple Music reveals top music in 2022 and listener charts (AP News)
Gorilla Glass Victus 2 could save your big phone from disastrous falls on concrete (TechRadar)
Sony is getting into the metaverse with a new motion-tracking system (The Verge)

Tue. 11/29 – Is Elon Going To War With Apple? Nov 29, 2022

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Elon says he’s willing to go to war with Apple. Why now? Is Apple really threatening Twitter’s status in the App Store, as he claims? Where, exactly, is the money for Binance’s crypto recovery fund coming from? Amazon wants kids to get in on the generative AI game. And with all the explosion of AI tools, why aren’t we seeing more adoption of AI for the very tangible and very important use case of medical imaging?

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Elon Musk Claims Apple Has 'Mostly Stopped' Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands (MacRumors)
Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk (Platformer)
Twitter’s $5bn-a-year business hit as Elon Musk clashes with advertisers (Financial Times)
Binance clarifies initial $1 billion recovery fund deposit came from own assets (The Block)
Amazon’s Create With Alexa generates unique animated children’s stories on Echo Show (Engadget)
Google partners with med tech company to develop AI breast cancer screening tools (The Verge)
Special Series Part 3: AI Could Transform Medical Imaging — So Why Don’t We See It More? (Crunchbase News)

Mon. 11/28 – The China Protests Nov 28, 2022

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All of the protests erupting in China have, not only a definite tech angle, but might have been triggered by those lockdowns at that Foxconn factory. BlockFi officially files for bankruptcy. Binance attempts to prove its reserves. How to message yourself on WhatsApp. And how Minecraft might have led to a major new breakthrough in AI.

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Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests (Washington Post)
US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecom Equipment on Data-Security Risk (Bloomberg)
Crypto Lender BlockFi Filing for Bankruptcy and Conducting Major Layoffs as FTX Contagion Claims Another: Source (Decrypt)
Binance releases proof-of-reserves system, starting with bitcoin (The Block)
WhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourself (WhatsApp)
A bot that watched 70,000 hours of Minecraft could unlock AI’s next big thing (MIT Technology Review)
Special Series Launch: The Promises And Perils Of A Decade Of AI Funding (Crunchbase News)

(Bonus) Internet From Space! With The Internet Society Nov 24, 2022

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Check out the extensive paper on LEO satellites and Internet from space at InternetSociety.org/techmeme

Wed. 11/23 – Foxconn Riots? Nov 23, 2022

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Actual rioting happening at the major Foxconn factory that produces iPhones. Microsoft fully embraces Linux. Advertisers continue to flee from Twitter. What if your wifi router and mesh network was actually a fashionable home décor choice? And surprise! The weekend longreads suggestions.

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Violent Protests Erupt at Apple’s Main iPhone Plant in China (Bloomberg)
Windows Subsystem for Linux generally available via Microsoft Store (BleepingComputer)
Advertisers are dropping Twitter. Musk can’t afford to lose any more. (Washington Post)
Nest Wifi Pro review: better, faster, shinier (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare (The Atlantic)
Robert Iger Returns to Disney Facing Radically Different Streaming Landscape (WSJ)
America has an earthquake early-warning system now — on your phone (Washington Post)
The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Flying in One Day (WSJ)

Tue. 11/22 – The Alexa Deathwatch Is Real Nov 22, 2022

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The contagion in crypto continues to teeter on a knife’s edge. Why were Sam Bankman Fried’s parents allegedly buying property in the Bahamas? Elon says Twitter is hiring again. Turns out the Alexa deathwatch is very real. And is Apple really the privacy company, or just like everybody else when it comes to ads?

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Mon. 11/21 – More Crypto Trouble? Nov 21, 2022

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Ruh roh. Storm clouds gathering in crypto land again. This time it’s DCG and Genesis. The shocking CEO revolving door over at Disney. The surprising return of SwiftKey. What you missed this weekend in Twitter. And you’ve heard of Stable Diffusion; let me introduce you to Unstable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion but for porn.

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