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🧠 Neuralink patient plays chess and video games using brain implant
💥 US sues Apple in antitrust case
📈 Reddit is now a publicly traded company
🌐 UN set to vote on first AI resolution, aiming to make it 'safe and secure'
🔍 Google fined $270M for using news articles to train Gemini
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 10 handpicked research papers and tools
🧠 Neuralink patient plays chess and video games using brain implantLINK
Neuralink released a video showing a paralyzed patient, identified as Noland Arbaugh, using a brain implant to control a mouse cursor and play chess on a laptop.
The video demonstrates the first human use of Neuralink's brain implant technology, with the patient also mentioning the ability to play Civilization VI for eight hours straight.
Though representing significant progress in brain-computer interface technology, the demonstration has been met with skepticism regarding its novelty and concerns about trial transparency and animal welfare in previous experiments.
💥 US sues Apple in antitrust caseLINK
The US Department of Justice is suing Apple for illegally monopolizing the smartphone market and exploiting its position to obtain more money from a wide range of stakeholders.
The 88-page lawsuit alleges Apple uses various unfair practices to maintain its market dominance and hinder innovation, including obstructing competitors and limiting third-party access to iPhone features.
In response to the European Union's Digital Markets Act, Apple has started to modify some policies in Europe, such as permitting third-party app stores on iPhones and granting developers access to tap-to-pay functionalities.
📈 Reddit is now a publicly traded companyLINK
Reddit priced its shares at $34 each for its stock market debut, giving the company a valuation of approximately $6.4 billion and raising concerns among users about potential changes in platform dynamics.
The platform, known for its community-driven content and pseudonymous user engagement, may face changes in content and advertising strategies post-IPO to address its financial losses.
Users and moderators have expressed skepticism about Reddit's future direction and have shown willingness to protest or leave the platform if significant negative changes occur post-IPO.
🌐 UN set to vote on first AI resolution, aiming to make it 'safe and secure'LINK
The UN General Assembly is set to vote on its first resolution on artificial intelligence, focusing on ensuring the technology is safe, respects human rights, and benefits all nations.
The draft resolution emphasizes closing the digital divide, fostering global consensus on AI governance, and using AI to achieve the UN's 2030 development goals.
The resolution has received support from all 193 UN member states after months of negotiations and aims to guide the development and use of AI in a manner that respects human rights and fundamental freedoms.
🔍 Google fined $270M for using news articles to train GeminiLINK
Google agreed to pay approximately $273 million to settle a dispute in France for not informing or compensating French news publishers when using their content for search results and training its AI chatbot, Gemini.
The settlement addresses Google's breach of commitments, including fair negotiations with publishers and informing them about the use of their content by Google's AI services.
As part of the settlement, Google committed to corrective measures including dropping a minimum threshold for publisher remuneration and appointing a French-speaking representative to improve transparency and communication with publishers.
Other news you might like
Microsoft and Meta accuse Apple of playing games with App Store rules.LINK
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys.LINK
Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79.LINK
GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities.LINK
DoorDash begins piloting drone deliveries in the US.LINK
The FCC is investigating Amazon over the alleged marketing and sale of outlawed products.LINK
Physicist who worked on room temperature superconductor accused of ‘research misconduct’.LINK
Latest research and tools
Shattered Pixel Dungeon: an open-source roguelike dungeon crawler game with randomized levels, which is based on Pixel Dungeon's source code and supports Android, iOS, and Desktop platforms.LINK
Redis: a popular open-source in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker.LINK
GritQL: a Rust CLI tool for searching and modifying source code using a declarative language, designed to streamline complex code migrations across multiple languages without needing to understand AST details.LINK
Dropflow: a CSS layout engine designed for node or
Personal Knowledge Base Visualization Knowledge: a web application that extracts content from social media platforms like GitHub, HackerNews, Zotero, and Twitter, creating a searchable knowledge graph and enhancing it with automatically generated tags for easier navigation and information retrieval.LINK
Ludic: a lightweight Python framework that enables developers to build dynamic HTML pages with minimal JavaScript by integrating seamlessly with htmx.org and leveraging the Starlette framework for high-performance web development.LINK
AI Content Blocklist for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist: enables users to filter out websites containing AI-generated content from image search results in Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing by using a comprehensive blocklist with about 850 entries.LINK
Teler: a real-time HTTP intrusion detection system that analyzes web logs in a terminal, leveraging community-provided resources, offering features like alerting, monitoring, logging, minimal configuration, support for flexible log formats, and custom threat rules.LINK
HiddenVM: allows users to run any desktop OS within a VirtualBox on Tails for increased privacy, offering anti-forensic features and the option to store the setup in a hidden VeraCrypt volume for deniability.LINK
Pueue: a command-line tool for managing the sequential and parallel execution of long-running shell commands, enabling task scheduling, process interaction, and more, with support across multiple platforms including Linux, macOS, and Windows.LINK
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