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According to Nothing, their new iMessage app was end-to-end encrypted. Nothing Chats is built on Sunbird’s platform and all Chats messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning neither we nor Sunbird can access the messages you’re sending and receiving. As you may have guessed: that’s just not true. To
404 Media: Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits From Nonconsensual AI Porn Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook, Lyft, and other tech giants, has invested in Civitai, a giant platform for sharing AI models that
Evgeny Obedkov: Epic Games Store Remains Unprofitable Nearly Five Years After Its Launch, Its GM Steve Allison Admits in Court In 2022, the Epic Games Store topped 230 million PC users, who spent $820 million on the store and claimed nearly 700 million copies of free games. However, it is
Greg Morris: Just Don’t Remove the Function Keys Your use case may vary, but that was something I could put up with had the Touch Bar shown a real use case outside gimmicky scrubbing through timelines or swiping through photos. It felt half-baked at best, and thrown in to
Sam Byford: On 'Chinese Knockoffs' and Why Leica Works With Xiaomi But these are unfortunate takes nonetheless. Describing Xiaomi as “Chinese knock-offs” or “rip-off artists” in 2023 shows a lack of understanding of the company and the broader phone market outside the United States. As an American who
John Gruber: Trump’s Dark Plans for a Second Term Trump and his supporters remain the biggest threat to America, and to the concept of liberal democracy itself, the world has ever seen. These are plans for a dictatorship, pure and simple. Absolutely true, and something we need to remember
Mike Young: Telling GPT-4 You're Scared or Under Pressure Improves Performance The study found that prompts with added emotional weight—dubbed "EmotionPrompts"—can improve AI performance in tasks ranging from grammar correction to creative writing. The implications are clear: incorporating emotional cues can lead to more
Nick Heer: Managing ‘A.I.’ Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress There is a neat rhetorical trick in both Sinofsky’s and Thompson’s articles. It is too early to regulate, they argue, and doing so would only stifle the industry and prevent it from reaching its best potential
Jason Koebler: Mastodon Is the Good One the Fediverse is a better, more user-centric social media concept than the one we currently have, where you amass followers on a single platform then lose them if that platform dies or becomes bad and you decide to quit. Federated social media means
Futurism: Elon Musk Thinks the Main Character in "Blade Runner" Was Named "Bladerunner" In a recent tweet, Musk promised that his EV maker's upcoming Cybertruck will be an "armored personnel carrier from the future — what Bladerunner would have driven." Unfortunately for him,
Ashley Belanger: Creators Confused by Elon Musk’s Plan to “Incentivize Truth” on X "The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism," Musk said, warning that "any attempts to weaponize @CommunityNotes to demonetize people will be immediately obvious, because all code and data is
Andrew Cunningham: Apple’s Cheaper 14-Inch MacBook Pro Is Killing the Old 13-Inch Version Apple refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup earlier today, and there was one surprise that the rumor mill hadn't anticipated: a new base model of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with a plain-old M3 chip in
Jess Weatherbed: Here’s What Apple Means When It Says Its Event Was ‘Shot on iPhone’ - The Verge Behind-the-scenes footage of Apple’s Monday evening Scary Fast event reveals how it was filmed using an iPhone 15 Pro Max... with the aid of a full suite of professional recording
Abe Beame: Martin Scorsese’s Late-Stage Career Has Proved Quentin Tarantino Wrong In 2021, Quentin Tarantino defended his intention to make “just” 10 movies and retire, saying, “I know film history, and from here on in, directors do not get better.” That view of both artistry and film is squarely
I haven’t written about Twitter (now X) in a while on this site, mostly because it’s just gotten boring. How much is there to say about a product that I don’t use and seems to simply be getting worse by the day and is losing users? But