I Was Merely Fluffing - TikTok ban coming to the US? ChatGPT Windows 11 taskbar, Twitter job cuts
• Our Growing TikTok Moral Panic Still Isn’t Addressing The Actual Problem.
• U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.
• Apple Watch potential ban: What you need to know.
• All about Salt_Hank's upcoming cookbook.
• YouTube’s new head talks 2023 priorities, including AI, podcasting, Shorts and more.
• Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar.
• OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit.
• Planning for AGI and beyond.
• You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
• Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub.
• Talking about the diminishing drive to share on social media.
• Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app.
• YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot.
• In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO.
• Elon Musk’s defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous.
• Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke.
• Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth’s pre-seed funding.
• Google Drops 9 New Android and Wear OS Features.
• Google Chrome’s new zoom on mobile blows things up by up to 300 percent.
• Google Keep’s new Android widget makes it easier to check off items on your to-do list.
• Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices.
• Chrome tweaked to improve memory use & battery life on MacBook.
• Waymo starts autonomous testing in LA with no human driver.
• Google’s bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users.
• Gmail’s client-side encryption is now available to more businesses.
• Google rolls out fall detection on the Pixel Watch.
• Your Google Docs are about to look a little bit different.
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