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☆ Here's how your iPhone could get worse if the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit succeeds
  + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Some critics of the suit believe it could make the iPhone worse, leading to security concerns and a less seamless experience. But is that something that iPhone users really want? The DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thursday. AdvertisementFor its part, Apple has argued that the DOJ's lawsuit could pose any number of issues for iPhone users — from security and privacy concerns to a degradation in user experience. A less seamless user experienceThe DOJ's lawsuit could also have a detrimental impact on Apple's signature user experience, according to some experts.
Persons: —, Apple, Jeff Chiu, Tim Cook, Cook, Benedict Evans, Evans, Jennifer Huddleston, Koch, Huddleston, Adam Kovacevich, Dave Lee, Lee, Forrester, Dipanjan Chatterjee, Apple's, Chatterjee, Fortune Organizations: DOJ, Apple, Service, US Department of Justice, AP, Union's, Venture, Cato Institute, Apple Watch, of, Big Tech, Bloomberg
☆ Zuck roasts the Apple headset again
  + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Mark Zuckerberg has been outspoken about his criticisms of Apple's Vision Pro. In a Friday post on Threads, he trashed the VR headset once again. Zuck said if Meta's Quest is like the Vision Pro in five years, "we'll have regressed significantly." AdvertisementMark Zuckerberg just keeps dumping on Apple's Vision Pro. Friday's social media posts were just the latest in a series of snarky comments Zuckerberg has pointed toward Apple's Vision Pro.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Zuck, —, Benedict Evans, it's, Evans, Zuckerberg Organizations: Apple's, Service, Mosaic Ventures, VR, Vision, Meta, Apple, Business, Pro, preorder, Labs, Apple's Vision
☆ Ex-Andreessen Horowitz VC says Twitter helped build his career but he's leaving because of Elon Musk's chaotic leadership: 'It turns out that social networks are harder than rocket science'
  + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Benedict Evans said he's leaving X, formerly Twitter, after 16 years of using it to help build his career. X has faced an onslaught of criticism since Musk took over last year. After all, Musk has been promising self-driving electric cars for the better part of a decade, Evans wrote. Evans is far from the first person to threaten to leave the social media site since Musk took over. When the billionaire first took Twitter private last year, several celebrities took to the platform to announce their departure.
Persons: Benedict Evans, he's, X, Musk, —, Andreessen Horowitz, Elon Musk's, Evans, Ron DeSantis, Tesla, Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Insider's Lara O'Reilly Organizations: Elon, Service, Twitter, Defamation League, SpaceX
☆ 'Data leverage' and the Harry Potter test: How much is a single book worth to a giant AI model?
  + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
This month, serious AI researchers waded into this debate with 2 papers that seek to address various aspects of the situation. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Harry Potter testThen the researchers went deep into the weeds, using J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books to see if individual pieces of data influence AI model performance. The other datastore excluded all 7 Harry Potter books. Then they repeated the exercise, excluding the second Harry Potter book, then the third, and so on. Important legal benefitsHelping J.K. Rowling make even more money from her Harry Potter books was not the goal of the SILO study, though.
Persons: Nick Vincent, Vincent, what's, Benedict Evans, I've, I'm, Harry Potter, Rowling's Harry Potter, LLMs, there's, Rowling, Oren Etzoni, Etzioni Organizations: Morning, Simon Fraser University, University of Washington, UC Berkeley, Allen Institute, AI Locations: Vancouver, Google's, Seattle
☆ Big Law firm draws ire for leaked list of 'non-negotiable expectations' for associates — including being online 24/7 'no exceptions, no excuses'
  + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A leaked list of "non-negotiable expectations" at law firm Paul Hastings is sparking debate online. While some say the demands are "horrible" others say they represent realistic expectations within the industry. The firm told Insider "the material was prepared by an associate," but noted "the views expressed do not reflect the views of the firm or its partners." Lee Edwards, general partner at Root Ventures, an investment firm focused on tech, wrote in a tweet on Friday that he found the expectations "horrible." "Good and helpful description of working in any top-tier profession services firm at any point in the last 30 (50?)
☆ Twitter bans promotion of accounts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their accounts on at least seven other major social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social, the platform announced Sunday. "We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter," Twitter Support tweeted Sunday. Twitter’s rule change left out some major social media platforms, most notably TikTok. Other social media companies have few, if any, rules about users’ posting links to their accounts on other platforms.
☆ Amazon thought Alexa would be the next iPhone. Turns out it's a 'glorified clock radio.'
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Jake Swearingen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Amazon's Alexa was Jeff Bezos' pet project; now it's a target for the company's cost-cutting. The Amazon Echo debuted in 2014 and was the company's first real success as a hardware manufacturer. The stand-alone voice assistant was immediately useful, and by 2018, the company sold more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices. It even licensed the Alexa voice assistant to other manufacturers, hoping to make the assistant ubiquitous throughout people's homes. But as Amazon faces a new era of cost discipline, a "glorified clock radio" can't lose $10 billion a year or employ 10,000 people.
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