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It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem

OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might’ve come from Twitch streams and walkthroughs of games. Sora launched on Monday, … Continue reading

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Alphabet and Tesla reach fresh records, joining Amazon and Meta and pushing Nasdaq past 20,000

Tesla topped its 2021 peak on Wednesday and Alphabet hit a record for the first time since July, as four of tech’s seven megacaps closed at all-time highs.

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches One Actively Exploited Vulnerability, Among Others

December marked a quiet month with 70 vulnerabilities patched, plus updates from outside of Microsoft.

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Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal is moving its HQ from DC to California

Hyundai’s electric vertical takeoff and landing startup Supernal is shifting its global headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Irvine, California and asking around three dozen of workers to relocate, TechCrunch has learned. The company told TechCrunch about 5% of its total … Continue reading

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Honda cuts funding to robotaxi venture with Cruise and GM in Japan

Honda Motor Co. will stop funding a joint venture with General Motors and Cruise to launch a robotaxi service in Japan, now that GM has pulled the plug on Cruise and its commercial robotaxi ambitions, reports The Nikkei. GM said … Continue reading

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Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down in mass Meta outage

Over 22,000 people reported issues with Facebook this evening and over 18,000 struggled to use WhatsApp, according to Downdetector.

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Pentagon doesn’t know where mystery drones over New Jersey come from

In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been flying over New Jersey and other parts of the northeast U.S. in recent weeks were coming from a foreign entity, … Continue reading

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Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to ‘technical issue’

Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps are down due to a ‘technical issue’

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How to Create Users and Groups in Linux from the Command Line

Here’s a quick guide to adding users and groups, and then how to add users to groups, all from the command line on the Linux platform.

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Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT … Continue reading

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