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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment  —  A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day.  So he decided to fight back Source link

India’s antitrust body on Friday ordered a probe into Alphabet Inc’s Google in an ongoing dispute with local startups over its in-app billing system, saying the U.S. company implemented its policies in a “discriminatory manner”. Indian startups have been at odds with Google for months over the fee it charges for in-app payments. The dispute

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2  —  LLMs are trained to block harmful responses.  Old-school images can override those rules.  —  Researchers have discovered … Source link

Indian digital payments firm Paytm plans to cut close to 20 percent of staff at its banking unit amid uncertainty over the unit’s future due to a looming central bank deadline for it to halt most operations, two sources said. Paytm Payments Bank has decided to lay-off staff in certain divisions, including operations, the sources

Hugo Barra / Hugo’s Blog: A deep dive into Vision Pro by Meta’s ex-VP of VR Hugo Barra: the audacity of Apple’s hardware decisions, a dull software story, how Meta can respond, and more  —  Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product. Source

Amazon is handing out some of the biggest discounts on a wide range of items during its Great Indian Festival sale that kicked off for Prime members in India on October 7 and for all others in the country on October 8. The sale is in its last leg, with the Finale Days that started

Bloomberg: Letter: Chamath Palihapitiya’s VC firm Social Capital said it fired two of its partners, citing an undisclosed “situation”, and hired a law firm to investigate  —  – Social Capital has declined to explain the sudden move  — High-profile firm said undisclosed ‘situation’ led to firing Source link

Amazon Great Indian Festival Finale Days Sale is live for a few more days with up to 40 percent savings on Wi-Fi routers and hotspots. The month-long sale started on October 8 with hundreds of deals and bundled offers on thousands of products and will end on November 10. Besides the regular discounts, the online

Financial Times: Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are storing, instead of selling, second-hand chipmaking machines over fears of breaking US export controls and sanctions  —  Samsung and SK Hynix have been storing used machines in warehouses as US-China tensions rise  —  Samsung and SK Hynix … Source link

What are the biggest TV shows and web series coming to streaming in November 2023? The overtly gory animated series Invincible returns for a second run, as our titular teenage superhero struggles to rebuild his new life out of fear that he might end up evil, like his father Omni-Man. Bringing back Oscar-nominee Steven Yeun