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Twitter lays off product manager who led Blue subscription project
Crawford led various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription and its forthcoming payments platform. More than 50 employees were impacted by the layoffs, which were spread across several departments. Martijn de Kuijper, the creator of the now-shuttered Revue newsletter platform that Twitter acquired in 2021, was also among them.
Google layoffs not based on performance: Sacked Indian employee
In a LinkedIn post, Google India employee Animesh Swain stated that pink slips were also served to employees with highest ratings. The list also has names who were recently awarded promotions."The people who managed to stay (including me) are not necessarily better than those laid off," Swain was quoted as saying in the post.
AI tools not far away from being scary, we need to get them right: OpenAI CEO
The artificial general intelligence (AGI) comes with serious risk of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption. "Because the upside of AGI is so great, we do not believe it is possible or desirable for society to stop its development forever; instead, society and the developers of AGI have to figure out how to get it right," Altman said in a blog post.
Most CISOs to change jobs due to growing stress from hacking threats
The cybersecurity personnel are facing acute stress as nation-state bad actors continue to infiltrate government and enterprise systems with sophisticated malware. "Cybersecurity professionals are facing unsustainable levels of stress. CISOs are on the defence, with the only possible outcomes that they don't get hacked or they do," said Deepti Gopal, Director Analyst, Gartner.
US man arrested for stalking ex-wife using AirTag: Report
According to the police, Carlos Atkins is not the first stalker to be jailed because of AirTags, reports AppleInsider. Atkins is said to have located the victim's vehicle so that he could place roses on it. "His unnamed ex-wife found the AirTag in her car, and reportedly Atkins has confessed that he placed it there," the report mentioned.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 may not feature Chinese foldable panels
The tech giant is expected to make the panels for its upcoming foldables, reports SamMobile. The company is likely to use the teardrop hinge design for its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 devices. It is expected that the company's top priority for 2023 is to make its foldable phones thinner.
Nokia-maker HMD Global to move some manufacturing to Europe
HMD Global chief marketing officer Lars Silberbauer said that by starting this journey to bring manufacturing to Europe, "we want to ensure that the critical part of the development of the devices are within Europe and within European legislations, which is quite important for a lot of our customers.a The announcement came four years after HMD Global said it was moving its data centres to Europe to meet the GDPR norms, reports TechCrunch.
Microsoft accidently releases Windows 11 upgrade to ineligible PCs
"Some hardware ineligible Windows 10 and Windows 11, version 21H2 devices were offered an inaccurate upgrade to Windows 11," the tech giant said in a support note. "These ineligible devices did not meet the minimum requirements to run Window 11. Devices that experienced this issue were not able to complete the upgrade installation process."
WhatsApp may bring 'schedule group calls' to future update
According to WABetaInfo, the feature is under development, so it is not ready to be released to beta testers. The feature will make it easier for users to plan a call with other members of the group. The feature will include a new context menu that introduces a scheduling option when the feature is enabled for users' accounts in the future, according to the report.
Google may add AI text-to-image generator to Gboard
In a recent APK (Android Package Kit) teardown, conducted by 9to5Google, the latest beta version of Gboard -- contains lines of code that mention an "Imagen Keyboard". This Imagen feature will appear in the shortcuts strip/page, like Clipboard, Translate, and One-handed. For people who are unfamiliar with Imagen, it is similar to the popular text-to-image generator DALL-E 2 -- which is owned by ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
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