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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, starting at €999 and available for preorder in Europe  —  The clip-on fan interfaces with a trap door that opens up for internal cooling.  —  Some companies may be giving … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A look at OpenAI’s “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release  —  Microsoft-backed company asked an eclectic mix of people to ‘adversarially test’ GPT-4, its powerful new language model Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, starting at €999 and available for preorder in Europe  —  The clip-on fan interfaces with a trap door that opens up for internal cooling.  —  Some companies may be giving … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Asus unveils ROG Phone 7 with a 6.78-inch AMOLED screen, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and clip-on cooling fan, available for €999 for preorder in Europe  —  The clip-on fan interfaces with a trap door that opens up for internal cooling.  —  Some companies may be giving up on the idea … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Court filings in California’s suit against Amazon say the company blocked sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites despite claiming to end the policy  —  Amazon.com Inc. continued blocking sellers from offering lower prices on rival sites, despite assuring antitrust enforcers it ended … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A San Francisco federal judge rules Google must face trial, set for May 8, over Sonos’ patents, but invalidates two of four patents and narrows Sonos’ claims  —  Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) received a mixed ruling on Thursday from a San Francisco federal judge in a patent lawsuit brought by Sonos Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Robert Leedham / British GQ: Q&A with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Digg’s collapse, Reddit going public after 17 years, TikTok and regulation as its biggest threats, its longevity, and more  —  First, he has some thoughts to share on teetotalism, the Twitter Files and TikTok  —  For 17 years now … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Filing: Elon Musk creates X.AI Corp., a privately held AI company incorporated in Nevada, and authorizes the sale of 100M shares  —  Name of new Nevada-incorporated organization suggests link to billionaire’s interest in everything app  —  Elon Musk has created a new artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Sega is nearing a deal to acquire Rovio for ~$1B; Rovio was in talks to sell to rival Playtika for $800M+, but the negotiations ended in March 2023  —  Japan-based entertainment conglomerate expected to pay about $1 billion for Rovio Entertainment  —  Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. SGAMY … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Voreacos / Bloomberg: A New York federal judge sentences James Zhong, who stole 50K+ bitcoin from Silk Road in 2012, to one year and one day in prison; Zhong faced 27 to 33 months  —  A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site before his cache hit $3.35 billion in value must serve a year in prison. Lees verder op Tech Meme