Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and served as the company’s CEO until 2000, died on August 19 at age 82 — Technology entrepreneur... Read more »
Amanda Hoover / Wired: How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors wrote using generative AI, without disclosure — Ethics watchdogs are looking out... Read more »
Louise Matsakis / Semafor: Q&A with TikTok Head of Music Ole Obermann on launching TikTok Music in Indonesia and Brazil before the US and helping artists from discovery to distribution — Since... Read more »
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: As Big Tech companies compel employees back to the office, some companies, like Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Twilio, remain steadfast backers of remote work — – Some tech... Read more »
Matt Novak / Forbes: X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter’s native shortening service are also broken — Twitter,... Read more »
Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta’s Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI’s GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from Stephen King and other authors — Stephen King, Zadie Smith,... Read more »
Frank Chaparro / The Block: Analysis: daily trading volumes surge on Coinbase International, an offshore derivatives exchange Coinbase launched in May 2023, reaching $287M on August 18 — – Coinbase’s offshore derivatives... Read more »
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Amazon restarts Amazon Shipping, its UPS and FedEx competitor that handles packages from other websites, after pausing the US service earlier in the pandemic — Amazon... Read more »
Cory Weinberg / The Information: Source: in H1 2023, Instacart’s revenue grew 30%+ YoY to ~$1.4B but gross transaction volume grew ~5% YoY; Instacart reportedly plans to go public in September — ... Read more »
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Windows file archiver utility WinRAR fixed a high-severity vulnerability that could give remote attackers arbitrary code execution, after researchers flagged it — A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed... Read more »