On Thursday, Fortnite maker Epic Games laid off 16% of its workforce, affecting 870 people. The company also divested Bandcamp, an online audio distribution platform it acquired last year, and spun off most of SuperAwesome, a kid-safe technology developer it acquired in 2020. Layoffs were first reported by Bloomberg. Epic …
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Apple expands drive, mail, and notes on iCloud.com
After updating iOS, iPadOS, and macOS in recent weeks, Apple has redesigned iCloud.com to support browser notifications for Mail and Calendar on a PC, a customizable home page with quick actions, and a slideshow view for photos. Last year, Apple added widgets to iCloud.com to view Notes and Pages data. …
Read More »Tesla is sued by the federal government for Black worker discrimination.
On Thursday, the EEOC sued Tesla for tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees and retaliating against those who opposed it. Tesla faces multiple racial bias lawsuits from the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws. Tesla was sued by the California Civil Rights Department in 2022 …
Read More »Steroid videos on TikTok are exploding, sometimes targeting teens
A new report by a social media watchdog group details how steroid content is exploding in some TikTok communities, promoting dangerous and illegal substances and unattainable body image ideals for boys and young men. In the last three years, U.S. users have watched over 580 million videos tagged with hashtags …
Read More »Reddit is doing away with the option to disable ad personalization based on user behavior
On Wednesday, Reddit announced it was updating its privacy settings in an effort to standardize ad personalization and account visibility controls. Specifically, it’s doing away with the option to disable ad personalization based on users’ Reddit behavior. Unnamed “select countries” will still have the option to opt out, the company …
Read More »Nextdata is a company that creates data meshes for businesses
Data meshes have been discussed for some time. Data can be accessed without first being moved to a data lake, which is a large-scale central repository, or a data warehouse, which is an enterprise system used for analyzing data from a variety of sources. Big names in the industry like …
Read More »Adobe releases Photoshop for the web, powered by its artificial intelligence framework Firefly
On Wednesday, Adobe released Photoshop for the web to everyone subscribed to a paid Adobe Creative Cloud plan. Firefly-powered AI tools like generative fill and generative expand are now available in the web beta after almost two years of development. The firm claimed that the web-based toolbar’s tools are organized …
Read More »Mistral AI releases its first publicly available large-scale language model
While API access may be the norm for the most popular language models, open models (in the broadest sense of the term) are increasingly in demand. French artificial intelligence startup Mistral, which raised a sizable seed round in June, has just released its first model, which it claims outperforms others …
Read More »After a federal search of a passenger’s phone at an airport, a security expert warns of a chilling effect
After being detained upon arrival at a U.S. airport, having his phone searched, and being ordered to testify before a grand jury, only to have prosecutors backtrack and drop the investigation, a U.S. security researcher is warning of a chilling effect. After returning from a trip to Japan on September …
Read More »MS updates Surface Laptop Go, Laptop Studio
What is a Surface event without Panos Panay? Microsoft answered the existential question at a NYC Windows event today. After longtime division head Panay’s abrupt departure earlier this week, CEO Satya Nadella took the stage and unleashed the big guns. Hardware—specifically the Surface Laptop Go 3 and Studio 2—was the …
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