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Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024's end and is working on a more "user-friendly" way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025 (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Apple plans to let EU-based iPhone users uninstall Safari by 2024’s end and is working on a more “user-friendly” way to let them switch to Android by fall 2025  —  Apple is preparing to allow EU-based iPhone users to uninstall its first-party Safari browser by the end of 2024 … […]

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Google Adds a New Gemini AI Feature That Will Let Users Fine-Tune Its Responses

Google has introduced a new feature for Gemini, its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot. The new feature provides users with granular control over the generated response to a prompt and allows them to make changes to a particular portion of the text. Users can regenerate the selected portion, edit its length or get it entirely removed.

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TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill  —  A push notification warns that the move ‘strips 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.’ Source link

TikTok sends US users a push notification saying Congress plans a total ban, with a link to find representatives, after the White House supported a TikTok bill (Mia Sato/The Verge) Read More »

Google Drive Brings Improvements to Video Playback, and Search Experience on iOS

Google Drive is getting a couple of updates that will improve the usability of the cloud-based storage platform. The tech giant is adding a new transcode to improve the playback speed and rebuffering of videos played within Drive. It is also improving the search functionality on iOS and adding query filters to help users quickly

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Robinhood says up to 25% of its trading volume is outside of traditional market hours, and investors have traded $10B+ overnight since its 24-hour rules in 2023 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Robinhood says up to 25% of its trading volume is outside of traditional market hours, and investors have traded $10B+ overnight since its 24-hour rules in 2023  —  Why Are Deepfakes Everywhere?  Can They Be Stopped?  —  QuickTake  —  What Is Bitcoin ‘Halving’ and Does It Push Up the Cryptocurrency’s Price?

Robinhood says up to 25% of its trading volume is outside of traditional market hours, and investors have traded $10B+ overnight since its 24-hour rules in 2023 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg) Read More »

Instagram Allows Feed Post Audience Customisation; Introduces New Reels Editing Tools, More

Instagram recently said that it was testing features to allow users to customise their feeds more. In September this year, it was reported that the company is also testing features that will allow users to choose to share Reels and feed posts with a customised list of profiles. Now, the social media platform has started

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Research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the LLM itself, raising suspicions that a fair portion of prompt engineering jobs may be a passing fad (Dina Genkina/IEEE Spectrum)

Dina Genkina / IEEE Spectrum: Research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the LLM itself, raising suspicions that a fair portion of prompt engineering jobs may be a passing fad  —  Since ChatGPT dropped in the fall of 2022, everyone and their donkey has tried their hand at prompt engineering … Source link

Research suggests that prompt engineering is best done by the LLM itself, raising suspicions that a fair portion of prompt engineering jobs may be a passing fad (Dina Genkina/IEEE Spectrum) Read More »

Elon Musk vs OpenAI: Here’s a Timeline of the Decade-Long Rivalry

On February 29, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. The primary allegation was that the company breached its founding agreement with Musk—who was one of the co-founders of the AI firm—by entering a partnership with Microsoft and functioning as its “closed-source de facto subsidiary”, intending to maximise profits. This,

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Google opens a cyberdefense hub in Tokyo, its first in the Asia-Pacific region, and will invite experts in the region to study countermeasures for cyberattacks (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Google opens a cyberdefense hub in Tokyo, its first in the Asia-Pacific region, and will invite experts in the region to study countermeasures for cyberattacks  —  Experts from Japan, India and Asia-Pacific to study countermeasures  —  Google will work with the Japanese government … Source link

Google opens a cyberdefense hub in Tokyo, its first in the Asia-Pacific region, and will invite experts in the region to study countermeasures for cyberattacks (Nikkei Asia) Read More »

Assassin’s Creed Mirage Review: Nostalgia Hits So Good

Not to be harsh, but I was never fond of Assassin’s Creed’s little detour into the endless open world meta in recent years. A series that was once lauded for its clinical stealth-based killings had slowly morphed into a reckless RPG with greater emphasis on quest hoarding, gear system, and heavy-handed combat. The new Assassin

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