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• Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly told to “stop talking” during rambling testimony — FTX co-founder scolded for making up his own definition of market manipulation.
• Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail — Somehow, the least suspicious parts of his defense are the 288 auto-deleting Signal conversations.
• In the end, the FTX trial was about the friends screwed along the way — The prosecution’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot of collateral damage.
• Android 14 breaks storage on some devices — The storage problem takes effect if the user, before installing Android 14, had multiple profiles on the device.
• Google readies Pixel update to fix Android 14 storage access issue — Depending on the device, this issue can result in the primary user being unable to access media storage. Alternatively, the issue can reboot the device with a “Factory data reset” message. If this message is accepted, data that is not backed up can be lost, and if it is declined, the device repeatedly reboots with the “Pixel is starting” message.
• Android 14 review: There’s always next year
• European Parliament adopts final position on EU Commission's CSAM (ChatControl) Proposal : privacy — There will be no mass surveillance of digital communications. The EU Parliament instead propose that surveillance will be limited to targeted surveillance of individuals and groups reasonably suspected of dissemination of CSAM and will only be permitted with a judicial warrant.
• The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law
• "Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity’s Runtime Fee fiasco — One Unity insider told us that a major mobile game publisher – and one of Unity’s biggest clients – met with John Riccitiello himself days after the first Runtime Fee policy was announced. They told him, in the words of our source: “Fuck you, we’re not paying.”

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• Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.
• Traffic to OpenAI's ChatGPT fell almost 10% in June — Traffic to ChatGPT’s website fell by 9.7% over the month of June, according to preliminary estimates from Similarweb, a web analytics firm, released this week. The decline was even greater just in the U.S., with a 10.3% month-on-month decline. The number of unique visitors to ChatGPT also fell by 5.7% from the previous month.
• We’re Going Down A Very Dangerous Path With AI Regulation, Despite Better Options — Reading through the “SAFE Innovation Framework” is like a masterclass in the political game of making it sound like you’re saying something, while actually saying nothing at all:
• Chuck's MS Doc Exported to PDF SAFE Framework
• Katharina Koerner on Twitter — This article articulates the fear that with new AI regulations, big companies with the means to employ lawyers will dominate the AI market, and the more creative and innovative startups are shut out.
• Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement - The Verge — The lawsuits allege the companies trained their AI models on books without permission.
• Guillaume🐻 on Twitter — This version introduce `include` keyword which allow you to use an existing Compose configuration as part of your Compose stack
• RFC: publish a compose application on registry — I suggest we define a mechanism and media type to push a compose.yaml file to a registry, in addition to images, with adequate OCI references

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• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29 — Let's get together at a local hidden gem, the Boston Harbor Marina. A classic location, with a covered deck on the water with a snack shack, and easy parking.
• The Serfs on Twitter — Elon Musk has allegedly revealed a secret alt account where he pretends to be a child version of himself posting a lot of bizarre sexual content
• Shashank Joshi on Twitter — “FTX was a preoccupation for the [Elon Musk burner account] @ErmnMusk account, which interacted with conspiracy theories—one saying that FTX was a middle party to laundering funds through Ukraine for U.S. Democrats”
• mousedownmike follows up on a series of topics! — ChatGPT summary and entire email with full context.
• Apple’s App Store can stay closed, but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals cour — Apple’s closed App Store and security restrictions didn’t violate antitrust law but that Apple couldn’t maintain anti-steering rules that prevent users from learning about alternate payment options.
• Apple declares victory after decision reached in Epic Games appeal — The decision signals that Apple’s control over the App Store and the fees it charges likely won’t significantly change as a result of an ongoing legal challenge by Epic Games.
• GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not — TL;DR GitHub Copilot trains on GPL code and its nonpermissive filters don’t actually work, while we at Codeium have removed GPL licensed code from our training data, guaranteeing peace of mind to our users.
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• You’re Gonna Have To Pay To Use Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now — Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black
• Apple flexes its control over the App Store — In its changes this week, Apple updated its App Store rules to give itself a cut of some advertising revenue in social media apps and purchase revenue from Web3 apps
• Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Destroying Dreams and Crushing Entrepreneurs — Durov said Apple is not "happy with content creators monetizing their efforts without paying a 30% tax" and that Telegram has no choice but to disable paid posts and channels on its iOS app. "This is just another example of how a trillion-dollar monopoly abuses its market dominance at the expense of millions of users who are trying to monetize their own content," Durov continued.
• MacRumors.com on Twitter — Story updated with the following statement from an Apple spokesperson: "We have paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages."
• alex 🤷🏽‍♂️😬👍🏾 on Twitter — AppStore discovery has become so shit even in 2016 that Indy devs were finding it hard to get organic growth. What did Apple do? Slowly but surely offer more and more advertising instead of better alternatives ⁦ @dominucco ⁩ ⁦ @ChrisLAS
• How Gamification Affects Software Developers — They urge caution: gamification can steer the behavior of software developers in unexpected and unwanted directions.
• Casey Newton on Twitter — Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.
• MAX PAIN 👀☣️ on Twitter — Elon actually brought in Tesla engineers to review Twitter code Wolf of Wall Street style and not only fired CEO Parag, CFO, and the Indian lawyer lady but the entirety of the C-suite executives on day 1
• The Elon Effect: Jim Bianco biancoresearch.eth on Twitter — Dogecoin just doubled in less than 24 hours.
• Young Workers Face New Reality: Tech Jobs Tumble As Meta, Twitter And Apple Cut Employees And Perks — Ives, a tech analyst at Wedbush, shares troubling words: “Winter is coming to the tech world.” How can workers prepare for this new season?
• Facebook parent Meta Q3 2022 earnings — The company’s Reality Labs division, which houses its VR headsets, lost over $9 billion in the first three quarters.
• Jim Cramer on Twitter — Meta bought back $6.5 billion as free cash flow dropped off the face of the earth. I did not see this coming. I trusted this management and that was ill-advised
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• Michael Dominick on Twitter — Been offline but meet the Dominicks!
• Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing 'I Am An Engineer' — An electronics engineer says he found a flaw in traffic lights. The Oregon engineering board fined him for it.
• 7 Estimation Anti-Patterns — Here are 7 estimation anti-patterns and also how you could fix them. Fair warning: in most cases, there are no easy answers.
• Microsoft employees are the latest casualties amid the tech world's layoffs trend — Precisely how many people are being put out of work is unclear. Axios’s source said the newly unemployed will number "under 1,000," which is an odd phrasing, since it could mean just about anything, but it’s pretty clear that the total is significant.
• Brad Sams on Twitter — I get that companies have to make priorities and cuts happen but when that same company is trying to spend $70b on an acquisition…it feels odd
• Mark Zuckerberg has a $10 billion plan to make it impossible for remote workers to hide from their bosses — But some experts are wary of a full-scale pivot to the metaverse. “We would have to carefully attend to the physical implications of headsets,” Roshni Raveendhran, assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, told Fortune last year. “Like if it harms our eyesight or implicates our brain functions; we don’t know any of these things now, and we won’t know until there’s more of a continual usage pattern. We need to pay attention to some of those before we go into full-scale adoption.”
• Mark Zuckerberg Should Make Facebook 'Facebook' Again — The Meta CEO should prioritize growing engagement and revenue on the company's core apps.
• he Wire retracts two recent stories about Meta's XCheck — Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta, especially the sources and materials involved in our reporting.
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