Wes Davis / The Verge:
A US jury finds that Phoenix Digital, which owns the cheat mod site AimJunkies, is guilty of violating Bungie copyrights when it created cheats for Destiny 2 — The landmark decision may be the first time a jury has agreed that a cheat creator violated a gaming company’s copyrights.
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties — Despite Meta’s promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs (Christine Mui/Politico)
Christine Mui / Politico:
Congress has quietly diverted $3.5B from the US CHIPS Act to Secure Enclave, a classified project proposed by Intel to build chips for defense needs — The Commerce Department was expecting to hand out new federal money to high-tech research. Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead.
How SLMs like Microsoft’s Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired:
How SLMs like Microsoft’s Phi-3, which can run locally on phones or PCs without big compromises, open up new AI use cases by being more responsive and private — Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts.
A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses (Rest of World)
Rest of World:
A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses — Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify misinformation.
An analysis of ChatGPT’s answers to 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow: 52% of answers contain misinformation, 77% are more verbose than human answers (Sharon Adarlo/Futurism)
Sharon Adarlo / Futurism:
An analysis of ChatGPT’s answers to 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow: 52% of answers contain misinformation, 77% are more verbose than human answers — Not So Smart — In recent years, computer programmers have flocked to chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help them code …
Apple Music’s “100 Best Albums” list, based on votes from about 250 employees, artists, and industry executives, is eclectic, unpredictable, and controversial (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Music’s “100 Best Albums” list, based on votes from about 250 employees, artists, and industry executives, is eclectic, unpredictable, and controversial — Why did a trillion-dollar company make a music list that would make people lose their minds?
Similarweb: Truth Social’s average number of US monthly visits was just over 4M from May 2023 to April 2024, down 39%+ from the prior 12-month period (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Similarweb: Truth Social’s average number of US monthly visits was just over 4M from May 2023 to April 2024, down 39%+ from the prior 12-month period — Nearly two-and-a-half years after its launch, Truth Social is struggling to hang onto its small U.S. user base, according to new data …
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman — The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
Dell’s stock rose 4.3% to close at $160.18 after reaching a record high on May 24 amid a rally in companies working on generative AI; DELL is up 114.17% in 2024 (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
Dell’s stock rose 4.3% to close at $160.18 after reaching a record high on May 24 amid a rally in companies working on generative AI; DELL is up 114.17% in 2024 — Shares of Dell Technologies (DELL.N) hit a record high on Friday amid a rally in companies working on generative artificial …
