/r/technology
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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%
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Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police
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'PS5 Has Put a Dampener on Gaming': 45% of Playstation Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC
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CEOs are being left baffled at the high cost of moving to AI — shockingly enough, sacking human workers isn't resulting in huge savings
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Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
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OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says — OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight
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The ChatGPT browser is already dead / Less than a year after launch, Atlas is being shut down.
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
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In-Car Cameras Are Now Required in Europe. US Isn't Far Behind
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Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records were Deleted
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ICE agents are making house calls for online critics
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New York becomes the first state to ban smart glasses in courtrooms
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma named as adviser to US Federal Reserve on "Jobs and Productivity"
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Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers
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Palo Alto CEO Arora says AI pricing needs to fall 90% as token costs skyrocket
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Patreon Blocks Crawlers From Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training / CEO Jack Conte: “Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon”
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StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal | CEO Eric Baker runs a side company that resells millions in tickets on StubHub
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American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI
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Instagram now lets others use your photos for AI: How to opt out
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Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
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Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT "Super App", which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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An RIAA-led coalition representing labels and artists proposes two tags for AI content: one for entirely AI-generated songs and another for "AI-assisted" tracks (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)
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Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of view (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
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The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight (Muvija M/Reuters)
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Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim plans to debut an agentic AI avatar of himself within days, which is meant to help the public navigate government services (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
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Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services (Vildana Hajric/Bloomberg)
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A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort $75.3M from five of his employer's clients (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
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In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's "addictive design" violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
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Polymarket is seeking CFTC and NFA approval to offer margin trading in the US, which would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and attract traders (Bloomberg)
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Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology expects its capex to exceed ~$6.2B in 2027, up ~4x YoY, and reports unaudited Q2 revenue of ~$2.6B, up 684% YoY (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
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Memo: MiniMax CEO Junjie Yan tells employees he will forgo his salary until MiniMax achieves AGI and promises to allocate personal shares to employee incentives (Juro Osawa/The Information)
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OpenAI and Google are selling their advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exposing a gap in the US' AI controls (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
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Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)
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A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI (SemiAnalysis)