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Bloomberg.com: Two of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, were hit with technical issues on Saturday; Sainsbury’s blames a software update  —  Two of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains – Tesco and Sainsbury’s – were hit with technical… Read More »Two of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, were hit with technical issues on Saturday; Sainsbury’s blames a software update (Bloomberg.com)

Joanna Nelius / The Verge: Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16: sets the bar for foldables with a large 4:3 display and seamless centerfold, but the trackpad is prone to missed inputs  —  Its beautiful 16-inch OLED display morphs… Read More »Review of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16: sets the bar for foldables with a large 4:3 display and seamless centerfold, but the trackpad is prone to missed inputs (Joanna Nelius/The Verge)

The Economic Times: Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000+ employees  —  During 2023, growth and late-stage startups chose to defer… Read More »Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000+ employees (The Economic Times)

Elle Hardy / New Republic: How evangelicals proselytize using Bless Every Home, an app that lets users create neighborhood maps and data tables based on people’s religion and ethnicity  —  The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived.  An app called Bless… Read More »How evangelicals proselytize using Bless Every Home, an app that lets users create neighborhood maps and data tables based on people’s religion and ethnicity (Elle Hardy/New Republic)

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Twitch plans to remove Prime Video Watch Party from April 2, 2024; Watch Party launched in 2020, allowing streamers to broadcast Prime Video content to viewers  —  Apparently people aren’t too nostalgic for the days of… Read More »Twitch plans to remove Prime Video Watch Party from April 2, 2024; Watch Party launched in 2020, allowing streamers to broadcast Prime Video content to viewers (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: Reddit’s down round IPO is a signal that rationality is slowly returning to VC and could encourage other tech companies looking to go public do the same  —  Companies and their backers are starting to… Read More »Reddit’s down round IPO is a signal that rationality is slowly returning to VC and could encourage other tech companies looking to go public do the same (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2  —  LLMs are trained to block harmful responses.  Old-school images can… Read More »Researchers detail ArtPrompt, a jailbreak that uses ASCII art to elicit harmful responses from aligned LLMs such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2 (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

James O’Donnell / MIT Technology Review: Self-driving startup Waabi unveils Copilot4D, a generative AI model trained on troves of lidar data to help predict traffic flow 5-10 seconds into the future  —  Waabi says its new model can anticipate how… Read More »Self-driving startup Waabi unveils Copilot4D, a generative AI model trained on troves of lidar data to help predict traffic flow 5-10 seconds into the future (James O’Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal  —  Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updated its rules to more… Read More »Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

New York Times: The TikTok divestment bill’s progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor  —  Legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app… Read More »The TikTok divestment bill’s progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor (New York Times)