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  • Google Wallet rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add IDs from Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia in the coming months (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers (Paresh Dave/Wired)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps (Chris Isidore/CNN)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple's MR headset could lure back VCs (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • Scientists and DNA sequencing startup Illumina identified 4.3M genetic variants in ~800 primates and then used AI to predict genetic health risks in 454K humans (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • A look at India's hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services (David D. Kirkpatrick/New Yorker)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • A profile of Nvidia, including how Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky started the company at Denny's and placed early bets on "$0B markets" (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • Harvard's popular MOOC CS50 plans to use AI to grade assignments, teach coding, and personalize tips, and is testing a virtual TA to give feedback to students (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • Sources: Zume, which used robots to automate pizza-making, shuts down and is undergoing liquidation; the startup raised $375M from SoftBank and $445M in total (Erin Woo/The Information)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • In an interim ruling, a Kenyan court orders the suspension of the mass sacking of 184 content moderators by Meta contractor Sama; Meta plans to appeal (Agence France-Presse)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • Sources: telecom ministers from 18 EU countries either rejected or criticized a push by European telcos to force Big Tech to help fund 5G and broadband rollout (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • Vimeo plans to end support for its TV apps on June 27, 2023, saying video-casting will give customers a "better ongoing experience" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-03
  • Cybersecurity firms say hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software to steal data from organizations (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-02
  • ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality (Washington Post)
    Source: Techmeme Published on 2023-06-02

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