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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google updates how Bard handles math, coding questions, and string manipulation via “implicit code execution”, which lets the chatbot run code in the background  —  Bard, Google’s beleaguered AI-powered chatbot, is slowly improving at tasks involving logic and reasoning. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: GameStop fires CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appoints chairman and majority shareholder Ryan Cohen as its executive chairman; GME drops 15%+  —  June 7 (Reuters) – GameStop (GME.N) fired CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appointed billionaire Ryan Cohen as executive chairman … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Pornhub shows a video message on its page for visitors in Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas, asking people to oppose new age verification laws in those states  —  Pornhub wants to punt privacy concerns of age verification to Big Tech.  —  Starting today, Pornhub visitors in Virginia … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google updates Bard with improvements to mathematical tasks, coding questions, and string manipulation via a technique that lets Bard run code in the background  —  Bard, Google’s beleaguered AI-powered chatbot, is slowly improving at tasks involving logic and reasoning. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Cox / VICE: Chats, screenshots, and interviews: some people are pirating GPT-4 and offering free access after stealing OpenAI API tokens scraped from other people’s code  —  Why pay for $150,000 worth of OpenAI access when you could just steal it?  —  People on the Discord for the r/ChatGPT subreddit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Meta plans to update its account center to give users more control over its cross-site tracking and profiling, ahead of a German antitrust ruling set for July 4  —  Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Contextual AI, which is building the next generation of LLMs for enterprise use-cases, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures  —  Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 are powerful, paradigm-shifting tools that promise to upend industries. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit creates an exemption from its unpopular new usage-based API pricing terms for “select developers of non-commercial apps that address accessibility needs”  —  Reddit is creating an exemption to its unpopular new API pricing terms for makers of accessibility apps … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Meta plans to update its account center to give users more control over its cross-site tracking and profiling, following a German antitrust intervention  —  Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Mojang launches Minecraft: Bedrock Edition for ChromeOS, after early access in March 2023; the $20 game runs on Chromebooks from the past three years and more  —  It will run on any Chromebook from the last three years, as well as some other models.  —  Following an early access period … Lees verder op Tech Meme