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🔍 Twitter Cuts Search Bar Access for Unregistered Users

Twitter is eliminating its search feature for anyone not logged on to drive up user numbers on the platform, in Elon Musk's latest attempt to generate more revenue, despite encountering outages, bugs, and security breaches, as the site's value dipped to an estimated $20 billion.

💻 Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI

Dropbox is laying off around 500 employees, or 16% of its workforce, and pivoting to AI as CEO Drew Houston says the shift is "necessary" to ensure the company is at the "forefront of the AI era."

💰 Lookout sold it's consumer business to f-secure for $223M

Lookout has sold its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure for $223 million and is focusing on becoming a pure-play enterprise company, with the proceeds from the sale being reinvested into its enterprise products.

🌐 Why ChatGPT lies in some languages more than others

A recent report from NewsGuard reveals that language models like Chat GPT are more likely to produce inaccurate information in some languages than others, with Chinese dialects being particularly prone to disinfo-tinged rhetoric.

💬 Dril and AOC are now on Bluesky

Twitter personalities Dril and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have joined Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter alternative, and with the platform's recent influx of users, it will undergo database upgrades resulting in five minutes of downtime.

💻 Windows 11’s limited iMessage integration has publicly launched

Microsoft has started to roll out support for iMessage in Windows 11 via the Phone Link app, but the feature has some major limitations, as it only works for making and taking calls, reading and responding to text messages, seeing notifications, and accessing the iOS contact list, with iPhone users not able to participate in group messaging conversations or receive images or videos.

💻 “There was a time that computer sound wasn’t guaranteed”

Sim Wong Hoo, the founder of Creative Technologies and the man behind Sound Blaster, has died at the age of 67, leaving a legacy in PC gaming and the tech industry.

📈 Meta: Time spent on Instagram grew 24% thanks to TikTok-style AI recommendations

Instagram's time spent on the platform has increased by over 24% due to AI-powered content recommendations for Reels, though this has yet to translate into revenue, with Reels cannibalizing some revenue from Stories and feed-based posts, according to Meta CFO Susan Li in the Q1 2023 earnings call.

💸 Britons ‘need to accept’ they’re poorer, says Bank of England economist

The Bank of England's chief economist, Huw Pill, has said that UK households and businesses need to accept they are poorer and stop seeking pay increases and pushing prices higher in response to rising costs, which is resulting in a game of "pass the parcel" in the economy. Pill warned that someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices or passing energy costs through to customers, adding that the reluctance to accept lower living standards is generating inflation in the UK.

💻 AMD announces Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme chips for handheld gaming PCs

AMD announces Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme chips for handheld gaming PCs, with up to 8.6 teraflops of raw graphic performance, promising improved performance compared to Valve's custom Zen2 plus RDNA2 "Aerith" chip in the Steam Deck.

🔄 Intuit’s Shift

Intuit, the US financial and accounting software company, is shifting its operations to become an AI-driven company, with CEO Sasan Goodarzi leading the charge; analysts suggest this could help the company leverage its vast customer base and talent pool into more efficient growth. Intuit's bet on AI technology has faced some growing pains including layoffs and revenue challenges but the company believes that through its "AI-driven expert platform" strategy, it can offer more value to customers by reducing work and increasing revenue. The company's strategy will focus on using AI and machine learning to augment its existing platforms in personal finance, accounting, and income tax returns. The second-largest team of Intuit is in India, where the company is developing an AI model for the mid-market, which is showing positive results using templates that will soon be converted to generative AI.

🕵 Hackers Leaked Minneapolis Students' Psychological Reports, Allegations of Abuse

The Minneapolis public school system was hacked in March by a ransomware gang which has now leaked sensitive personal information of students, including mental health records, allegations of abuse against the district's staff, and documents detailing incidents of student behavioral issues, with the gang publishing the documents on a number of different websites and using social media to put pressure on the district to pay a ransom.

🔥 Spain braced for record April temperature of 39C

Spain is experiencing record-breaking temperatures that could reach an unprecedented 39C in some parts of the country, prompting the government to warn people to take precautions amid drought and heat 7C-11C above average for this time of year.

🚗 GM confirms Chevy Bolt will die this year, making way for electric pickups

Chevrolet confirms that it will discontinue production of both the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV later this year, in order to make way for electric pickups planned for production, though the automaker will continue to produce affordable EVs such as the Equinox EV.

🌍 Tesla’s carbon footprint is bigger than the company let on in the past

Tesla has disclosed its supply chain emissions for the first time and it is much bigger than previously reported, indicating that the indirect emissions make up a major chunk of the company's carbon footprint, highlighting the importance of counting up all a company's direct and indirect emissions.

🔒 Google’s New Two-Factor Authentication Isn’t End-to-End Encrypted, Tests Show

Google's new two-factor authentication tool, Authenticator, has been found to pose significant security risks as it is not end-to-end encrypted, allowing Google to access user secrets stored on their servers and increasing the risk for cyber attacks and data breaches. Developers and researchers who discovered the issue have urged users to avoid the new syncing feature in the app to preserve their privacy. Google has acknowledged the problem and plans to offer end-to-end encryption in Google Authenticator in the future.

🛬 Sole survivor of a plane crash: what I learned in eight days alone in the jungle

Annette Herfkens reflects on how the trauma of surviving a plane crash that killed her fiancé three decades ago changed her mindset and taught her valuable lessons for coping with loss and seeking out positivity, which she has applied to her experiences with autism and other challenges in her life.

🤔 Should we trust Apple with mental health data?

Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered coaching service, mood tracker, and iPad health app that focuses on mental health, but some experts are concerned about the company's notification approach, behavioral health interventions, and lack of scientific research behind its features.

🤖 Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’

Mark Zuckerberg announces that Meta plans to introduce AI agents to billions of people, with chat experiences in WhatsApp and Messenger, visual creation tools in Facebook and Instagram, and multi-modal experiences for the metaverse being developed.

💬 Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT

AI startup Hugging Face has released an open-source version of the ChatGPT AI-powered chatbot, called Hugging Chat, with the aim of building the "assistant of the future" that can handle meaningful work, use APIs, dynamically research information, and more, with the ability to be personalized and extended by anyone, but acknowledged that the model can derails quickly depending on the questions asked.

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