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TikTok CEO urges users in the US to "defend their constitutional rights" (and the platform at the same time)

Soon after that, the US House of Representatives banned TikTok, with the company's CEO, Shou Chu, calling on users to "defend their constitutional rights." Chu also hinted that TikTok would file a lawsuit if the bill is finally adopted. "We will not...

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The popular media player VLC will be coming to Apple Vision Pro. But not very soon, because the developers are not motivated

The Apple Vision Pro headset still lacks many of the applications familiar to iOS and macOS users. Some major developers have already stated that they are not interested in porting their programs to Vision Pro. However, the developers of the VLC medi...

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US House of Representatives bans TikTok, bill sent to Senate

On Wednesday, March 13, the US House of Representatives supported a bill to ban TikTok in the United States. The project requires separating the video service from the Chinese parent company ByteDance within 6 months, and if this does not happen, Tik...

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Google DeepMind has created SIMA, an AI model that plays games. Why - they don't know yet.

Google DeepMind Laboratory presented SIMA - an artificial intelligence model that will play games for you. It is designed to play more like a human, rather than a superhuman artificial intelligence. SIMA, which stands for Scalable Instructable Multiw...

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Midjourney is testing a feature that will allow you to "save" a character's image to generate future images

Now users can provide the neural network with reference images of a person and adjust the generation in such a way that the appearance on the subsequent images looks the same. Midjourney is testing the Character Reference feature, which will allow ge...

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Google, Apple and Mozilla released Speedometer 3.0 - a benchmark for browsers

The Speedometer has long been a favorite benchmark of Google because it "best reflects the real world" by comparing JavaScript performance. Now, the Speedometer 3.0 version is available. Speedometer 3.0 is the result of collaboration (a joint manage...

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Epic Games will charge $1850 a year to developers who use the Unreal Engine for something other than games

Epic Games has announced a new pricing scheme for developers creating non-gaming products using the Unreal Engine. The company will charge an annual subscription of $1850 per seat. The term "per seat" essentially means "per person using the software....

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Apple will allow iOS apps to be distributed in the EU on developer websites

A few days after Apple allowed iOS users in the EU to use third-party app stores, the company announced additional changes related to how developers can distribute their apps. Now, developers who meet certain criteria will be able to allow users to d...

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A virus is being spread on X via an ad for nudes by actress Sydney Sweeney

The topic "Sydney Sweeney Leak" has become especially popular on Elon Musk's social network, but ultimately leads users not to exclusive naked images of the actress, but to malware. As 404 Media reports, attackers add links to suspicious websites in...

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"Actually beat out the Ukrainian interface" - ex-director of Google Ukraine about localization of services

Dmytro Sholomko, who headed Google's office in Ukraine for 17 years (and resigned in October of last year), gave an interview to DOU publication and, among other things, touched on the topic of Ukrainian localization of the company's services. Googl...

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Microsoft has released the Work Graphs API to enable advanced GPU-based rendering

Microsoft has released a new Agility Software Development Kit, which provides new capabilities. Agility SDK 1.613 includes Shader Model 6.8 and support for the Work Graphs API. The latter is an important feature that will promote the use of rendering...

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Midjourney banned Stability AI employees after attempted data theft

At the beginning of the month, the service faced a 24-hour outage allegedly due to "botnet activity" of two accounts linked to the competitor company Stability AI. On March 2nd, Midjourney reported a prolonged outage on its Discord server, supposedly...

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NKEC amends MNP: prohibits restrictions and introduces audible signal instead of voice warning

The National Commission for State Regulation in the Spheres of Electronic Communications, Radio Frequency Spectrum, and Postal Services (NCC) proposes to make some changes to the Procedure for providing the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) service. Le...

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Telegram has 900 million users, earns hundreds of millions of dollars and is valued at more than $30 billion - Pavel Durov

Paul Durov in a recent interview talked about the achievements of the Telegram messenger. According to him, Telegram has become one of the most popular social networking applications in the world. It earns "hundreds of millions of dollars" in revenue...

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Hackers exploited a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Popup Builder to infect 3,300 websites

Hackers are hacking WordPress sites using a vulnerability in outdated versions of the Popup Builder plugin, infecting more than 3300 sites with malicious code. The vulnerability exploited in the attacks is tracked as CVE-2023-6000 - a cross-site scr...

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