Journals

Reece Rogers / Wired: As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips  —  More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements.  Sound… Read More »As music from Universal Music Group artists disappears from TikTok, creators turn to royalty-free, almost-contextless sound clips (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Gareth Harris / Financial Times: How AI is being used to evaluate the authenticity of paintings, amid conservators’ concerns of whether the tech can account for wear, damage, and other factors  —  Machine learning can be the difference between a… Read More »How AI is being used to evaluate the authenticity of paintings, amid conservators’ concerns of whether the tech can account for wear, damage, and other factors (Gareth Harris/Financial Times)

Washington Post: Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good  —  Some users say the dating forums cause more harm… Read More »Inside “Are We Dating The Same Guy?” Facebook groups, which have a reported 3.5 million members, as some users say the dating forums cause more harm than good (Washington Post)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia’s rules  —  A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on… Read More »A look at AARoads, a dedicated US roads and highways wiki site started by a group of Wikipedia editors, after years of frustration over Wikipedia’s rules (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU court rules that regulators should pay €786K of legal fees for Qualcomm, not the €12M the company sought after it won an appeal against a 2018 antitrust fine  —  Europe’s second highest court has… Read More »EU court rules that regulators should pay €786K of legal fees for Qualcomm, not the €12M the company sought after it won an appeal against a 2018 antitrust fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Jatin Grover / FE Tech Bytes: India’s communications and IT minister says delisting of popular Play Store apps “cannot be permitted”; Google reinstates some apps without IAPs  —  Sources said reinstating some of the apps was not linked to the… Read More »India’s communications and IT minister says delisting of popular Play Store apps “cannot be permitted”; Google reinstates some apps without IAPs (Jatin Grover/FE Tech Bytes)

Business Standard: Sources: Google is offering to relist the apps of ten big Indian developers on the Play Store if they agree to route any payments through their own websites  —  Play Store to host apps for free without using… Read More »Sources: Google is offering to relist the apps of ten big Indian developers on the Play Store if they agree to route any payments through their own websites (Business Standard)

Michael Larabel / Phoronix: AMD is unable to release an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021  —  One of the limitations of AMD’s open-source Linux graphics… Read More »AMD is unable to release an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation after the HDMI Forum rejected its proposal; the forum closed public specification access in 2021 (Michael Larabel/Phoronix)

New York Times: Elon Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft’s research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI  —  In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam… Read More »Elon Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit repeatedly cites a contentious paper by Microsoft’s research lab, which said GPT-4 showed “sparks” of AGI, to argue that GPT-4 is AGI (New York Times)

The Record: Q&A with FBI Director Christopher Wray on taking down a GRU botnet, Volt Typhoon, critical infrastructure attacks, lessons from surveilling threat actors, more  —  We have active investigations working with partners into a whole range of cyber units… Read More »Q&A with FBI Director Christopher Wray on taking down a GRU botnet, Volt Typhoon, critical infrastructure attacks, lessons from surveilling threat actors, more (The Record)