Archive for October 31st, 2009
links for 2009-10-30
Posted by: amygdala on October 31, 2009
- Internal 4chan emails, chat logs, and moderation decisions reveal how the site's team of moderators, called "janitors", allowed racism and violence to take over (Justin Ling/Wired)
- Apple avoided mentioning AI at WWDC, instead referring to machine learning and transformers while describing features; M2 Ultra was touted for training models (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
- Filing: Intel plans to sell 35M+ shares in Mobileye, raising around $1.48B for its spending plans; after the sale, Intel will retain an ~88% stake in Mobileye (Ian King/Bloomberg)
- Intel details PowerVia, a backside power delivery technology promising performance and manufacturing benefits, set to be introduced in its chips in 2024 (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)
- An interview with Craig Federighi on the new privacy and safety enhancements across iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma, working with AI, and more (Michael Grothaus/Fast Company)
- Byju's files a complaint in the New York Supreme Court claiming lenders "unlawfully" accelerated the terms of a $1.2B term loan B raised in November 2021 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- In its Binance lawsuit, the SEC cited 12 coins as assets falling under its purview, taking the value of tokens categorized as unregistered securities to $115B+ (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)
- An overview of updates and announcements that didn't make it into the WWDC keynote, including iOS 17 dropping support for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X (Dan Moren/Six Colors)
- Lagos-based Helium Health, which provides SaaS tools, financing, and insights for health care providers and public health organizations, raised a $30M Series B (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
- In a draft, a trade group including the NYT, WaPo, Disney, and NBCUniversal warns publishers that AI tools built on their archives could break copyright laws (Ryan Barwick/Marketing Brew)
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