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Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court | TechCrunch: Gonzalez Rogers ruled Apple was in “willful violation” of the court’s injunction on anticompetitive pricing and commissions, which would have seemingly allowed Fortnite to return to the App Store. But Apple sat on the submission for a week instead, neither approving nor denying… Continue reading Judge pressures Apple to approve Fortnite or return to court | TechCrunch

Think Grok is bad? Microsoft made an AI so evil it had to be erased (twice): Backlash against Musk’s AI chatbot was prompt, forcing his company, xAI, to quickly respond, blaming Grok’s unchecked and unwanted mentions of a claimed “genocide” on “an unauthorized modification” made by a rogue employee to “the Grok response bot’s prompt… Continue reading Think Grok is bad? Microsoft made an AI so evil it had to be erased (twice)

Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech – The New Stack: When asked about the “low code, no code” trend, Gosling expresses skepticism rooted in historical context: “People have been saying low code, no code for decades. That was the pitch for COBOL.” He noted that such approaches typically excel in… Continue reading Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech – The New Stack

Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ‘white genocide’: Indicating that a rogue employee was to blame, the post added new measures would be brought in to ensure that xAI employees “can’t modify the prompt without review”. It said the code review process for prompt changes had been “circumvented” in the… Continue reading Elon Musk’s AI firm blames unauthorised change for chatbot’s rant about ‘white genocide’

Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now | The Verge: Jeff Bezos now has no choice but to insist that Amazon display tariffs on its website now. None. Zero. If he doesn’t insist on it, he will prove himself to be among history’s least principled cowards.

Katy Perry can’t sell tickets, Gayle King under microscope after Blue Origin backlash: Source: King, who is considered a news journalist, and therefore is expected to play by CBS News rules of ethics — in which you are not supposed to accept any gifts, let alone one that costs millions — is said to be,… Continue reading Katy Perry can’t sell tickets, Gayle King under microscope after Blue Origin backlash: Source

Google is an online advertising monopoly, judge rules | CNN Business:

Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad : NPR: “What that means is that literally any of us, whether we are from Venezuela or were born in the United States, whether we are immigrants or not, whether we are citizens or not, any of us is vulnerable to basically being kidnapped by masked… Continue reading Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad : NPR

AI code suggestions sabotage software supply chain • The Register: The problem is, these code suggestions often include hallucinated package names that sound real but don’t exist. I’ve seen this firsthand. You paste it into your terminal and the install fails – or worse, it doesn’t fail, because someone has slop-squatted that exact package name.

Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks – Ars Technica: If you all work obscenely hard, at the end you can celebrate your accomplishments by getting fired.

Apple Cuts Off Russian Access to Its Developer Enterprise Program – MacRumors:

2024-11-15T16:12:05.6560090Z ##[section]Starting: Select Xcode Version 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6568780Z ============================================================================== 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569020Z Task : PowerShell 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569140Z Description : Run a PowerShell script on Linux, macOS, or Windows 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569360Z Version : 2.247.1 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569480Z Author : Microsoft Corporation 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569610Z Help : https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/powershell 2024-11-15T16:12:05.6569810Z ============================================================================== 2024-11-15T16:12:06.3313040Z Generating script. 2024-11-15T16:12:06.3438110Z ========================== Starting Command Output =========================== 2024-11-15T16:12:06.3465730Z [command]/usr/local/bin/pwsh -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive -Command . ‘/Users/runner/work/_temp/c.ps1’… Continue reading I’ve created a simple Azure pipeline to list the available version of Xcode available in Azure Devops.

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New cars to be fitted with automatic speed limiters across Europe from this week – can… – LBC: