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Jake Kanter / Deadline: Amazon fails to renew its live English Premier League rights deal, as part of Sky and TNT’s new £6.7B UK TV rights deal for four soccer seasons from 2025/2026  —  – BBC Names Royals Accused In Omid Scobie Book Of Commenting On Skin Color Of Harry & Meghan’s Son Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft updates Copilot with DALL-E 3 and says GPT-4 Turbo support and a Code Interpreter feature are coming soon; Bing will get “Deep Search” functionality  —  Microsoft is detailing a number of new features coming to its Copilot service soon, including OpenAI’s latest models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

BBC: Tesla whistleblower Łukasz Krupski says Autopilot is not safe enough to use on public roads due to its hardware and software not being “ready”  —  A former Tesla employee has told the BBC he believes the technology powering the firm’s self-driving vehicles is not safe enough to be used on public roads. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Fielding / Engadget: Discord redesigns its mobile app, separating messaging and server tabs, adding messaging features and a midnight theme, alongside performance improvements  —  It also introduced a Midnight theme for a pure black background.  —  Discord bluntly describes the mobile app it launched in 2015 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Beeper debuts Beeper Mini for Android, which lets users send iMessages using E2EE, without having to use a new number or log in with an Apple ID, for $2/month  —  Earlier this year, a developer slid into Eric Migicovsky’s DMs with a spectacular claim: that he had reverse engineered Apple’s iMessage … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jake Kanter / Deadline: Amazon fails to renew its live English Premier League rights deal, as part of Sky and TNT’s new £6.7B UK TV rights deal for four soccer seasons from 2025/2026  —  – BBC Names Royals Accused In Omid Scobie Book Of Commenting On Skin Color Of Harry & Meghan’s Son Lees verder op Tech Meme

BBC: Tesla whistleblower Łukasz Krupski says Autopilot is not safe enough to use on public roads due to its hardware and software not being “ready”  —  A former Tesla employee has told the BBC he believes the technology powering the firm’s self-driving vehicles is not safe enough to be used on public roads. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Interviews with 80+ sources describe how OpenAI releasing ChatGPT a year ago triggered Google, Meta, and the rest of Silicon Valley to scramble to catch up  —  ChatGPT’s release a year ago triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies and alarm from some of the people who helped invent it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Leaked docs show concern at OctoML about helping its customer Civitai make AI images; OctoML co-founder Thierry Moreau said some “could be categorized as” CSAM  —  Content warning: This story covers synthetic child sexual abuse images.  —  OctoML, a Seattle-based startup … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Globes Online: Tel Aviv-based data privacy and governance startup Mine, whose clients include Reddit and HelloFresh, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures and PayPal  —  Mine, which develops B2B and B2C solutions in the field of data privacy, and governance, has 150 customers including Reddit … Lees verder op Tech Meme