Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer”
will be replaced by new black Windows 11 ‘unexpected restart screen’ Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : Windows killed the Blue Screen of Death Reece Bithrey / The Shortcut : Windows ‘Blue Screen of Dea...
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies”
Detail how AI unlocks new possibilities in the data center and cloud, PC … Ronak Kumar / The Crypto Times : OpenAI & Google DeepMind Employees Warn of AI Risks Webb Wright / The Drum : AI researchers ...
Newsletter service Ghost says it plans to add ActivityPub support in 2024; rival service Buttondown also plans ActivityPub support
Newsletter Platform Ghost Adopts ActivityPub Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Look out Substack, Ghost will join the fediverse this year Karissa Bell / Engadget : Newsletter service Ghost will support the ...
Spotify debuts AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting Android and iOS users generate and revise playlists using text prompts
Launches ‘AI Playlist’ Beta in UK & Australia Oliver Haslam / TweakTown : Spotify can now create your playlists from just a text prompt, but there's a catch Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Spotify will le...
Amazon launches Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant trained on its product catalog and information from around the web, in beta for some US customers
Amazon's new AI assistant designed to help you shop Efe Udin / Gizchina : Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant called Rufus Joe Rogun / MSPoweruser : Amazon launches AI shopping assistant to find ...
TikTok restricts Creative Center, meant to help advertisers track hashtags, after critics used the tool to scrutinize content on the Israel-Hamas war and more
and its critics—to assess content on its platform Meera Navlakha / Mashable : TikTok restricts data tool after accusations of geopolitical bias Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : TikTok Implemen...
Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search
here's why Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Websites can choose to opt out of Google Bard and future AI models Vallari Sanzgiri / MediaNama : Here's how web publishers can opt out of Google crawlers scrapi...
OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can opt out using robots.txt
GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler and can be identified by the following user agent and string. Emilia David / The Verge : Now you can block OpenAI's web crawler Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : GPT...
Meta launches new parental controls and other safety features for Messenger and Instagram in the US, the UK, and Canada, including letting parents view contacts
We want to make sure our apps are as supportive as possible for teens … Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Meta Announces New Teen Safety Tools, Including Updated Parental Oversight and Messagin...