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2 | These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Thursday, May 16th, 2024. I'm Robb Dunewood. | |||||
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6 | Amid escalating U.S.-China tensions, Microsoft is asking 700 to 800 employees in its China-based cloud computing and artificial intelligence operations to consider transferring outside the country. The staff, mostly engineers with Chinese nationality involved in machine learning, were given the opportunity to relocate to the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The offers to move were made earlier this week and employees have until early June to make up their minds to move or stay at facilities in China. | https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-asks-hundreds-of-china-based-ai-staff-to-relocate-amid-u-s-china-tensions-b626ff8c?st=5hewt0npk1e448n&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink | ||||
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8 | The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into Meta to determine if the social media giant has violated the Digital Services Act by contributing to children's social media addiction and not ensuring high safety and privacy levels. The Commission will specifically examine whether Meta is properly assessing and acting against risks brought on by its platforms' interfaces. Investigators will look into how well Meta protects young users from harmful content. This includes checking if Meta has strong age verification and clear privacy tools with good defaults for minors. | https://www.engadget.com/eu-investigating-meta-over-addiction-and-safety-concerns-for-minors-120709921.html | ||||
9 | Google has fixed the third actively exploited Chrome zero-day vulnerability in a week, the seventh this year. In a security advisory published on Wednesday Google said it, “is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-4947 exists in the wild”. Chrome should update automatically when security patches are available, however, users can confirm they are running the latest version by going to the Chrome menu > Help > About Google Chrome, letting the update finish, and then clicking on the 'Relaunch' button to install it. | https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-fixes-CVE-2024-4947-third-actively-exploited-chrome-zero-day-in-a-week/ | ||||
10 | At its Upfronts presentation on Wednesday, streaming giant Netflix announced that it is launching its own advertising technology platform to compete with industry heavyweights like Google, Amazon, and Comcast. It has only been a year and a half since Netflix entered the ad business offering less expensive plans with ads. The company initially partnered with Microsoft to develop its ad tech and quickly catch up with rivals like Hulu. This change in approach poises Netflix to take full control of its advertising future. | https://www.engadget.com/netflix-is-becoming-an-ad-tech-company-130004240.html?src=rss | ||||
11 | In other Netflix news, the company has secured the rights to stream two NFL football games on Christmas this year and at least one holiday game over the next 3 years. Although rumored for weeks, the deal was officially announced on Wednesday by the NFL as it prepared to release the full 2024-2025 NFL schedule. | https://deadline.com/2024/05/netflix-nfl-christmas-day-games-streaming-1235917212/ | ||||
12 | Reddit, during its first quarterly earnings report earlier this month, mentioned bringing back its awards program after shutting down it last year. In a post on the platform on Wednesday the company announced that it is indeed reintroducing its rewards program. Most of the mechanisms related to awards will remain the same, with some new additions, including a new design for awards, a new award button under eligible posts, and a leaderboard showing top awards earned for a comment or a post. Users who want to give awards will need to buy “gold,” which kind of replaces coins and starts at $1.99 for 100 gold. | https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/reddit-reintroduces-its-awards-system/ | ||||
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14 | An international study at the University of Oxford has found that links between internet adoption and well-being are likely to be positive, despite popular concerns to the contrary. In the study researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute encompassed more than two million participants' psychological well-being from 2006-2021 across 168 countries. Eight indicators of well-being were studied including life satisfaction and daily negative and positive experiences. One of the researchers, Assistant Professor Matti Vuorre, said, “We were surprised to find a positive correlation between well-being and internet use across the majority of the thousands of models we used for our analysis.” | https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-05-14-internet-use-statistically-associated-higher-wellbeing-finds-new-global-oxford-study | ||||
15 | Microsoft has announced the Proteus Controller for Xbox gamers with disabilities. The customizable controller is expected to ship in the fall for $299. Created by peripheral company ByoWave as part of the Designed for Xbox program, the wireless controller consists of small cubes with interchangeable faceplates that include controller buttons, a directional pad, and analog sticks. The “snap and play” parts connect together so gamers can build more than 100 configurations allowing one-handed gamers and players with other disabilities to use the controller in a way that’s most comfortable for them. | https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157529/microsoft-proteus-controller-xbox-accessibility | ||||
16 | And finally, Hugging Face, one of the biggest names in machine learning, is committing $10 million in free shared GPUs to help developers create new AI technologies. The goal is to help small developers, academics, and startups counter the centralization of AI advancements. Hugging Face aims to make state-of-the-art AI technologies accessible to everyone, not just the tech giants. | https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24156755/hugging-face-celement-delangue-free-shared-gpus-ai | ||||
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