All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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CoinDesk Cuts a Reported 45% of Staff Ahead of Potential Sale
The finger-on-the-pulse and Polk Award-winning crypto news media company CoinDesk is in dire straits. The website has reportedly laid off 45% of its staff as parent company Digital Currency Group explores a sale. The Block reports that the company’s layoffs include 20 employees at the website. CoinDesk management announced the layoffs via an internal email…
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Amazon to Use AI to Summarise All of Those Totally Real Product Reviews
Amazon is rolling out a new generative AI tool that will summarize customer reviews for each product, the company announced Monday. Instead of sifting through hundreds, possibly thousands of personalized reviews, the AI-powered tool will sum up the most frequently mentioned product features and customer opinions that commonly pop up, in a paragraph next to…
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Fake Claim That OpenAI Has a New Billion Dollar Investor Mysteriously Appears on Stock Exchange Website
A fake press release claiming that investment firm Ripplewood is putting $US1 billion into OpenAI appeared on the website of the London Stock Exchange on Monday. The false press release claimed the 28-year-old New York-based company would benefit from investing in OpenAI, saying it would be a “giant valuable asset” in the event that the company…
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Windows XP Refuses to Die and Somehow Runs on the Apple Vision Pro
Maybe you should ask yourself the question: why WOULDN’T you run Windows XP, an OS from 2001, on the Apple Vision Pro VR headset.