Bitcoin and Ethereum decline on the week, Worldcoin to launch a new Orb and Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy
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Read moreBell and Québecor spar over MVNO access service agreements
Bell has accused Québecor of refusing to enter into necessary mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access agreements. This comes a month after Québecor accused Bell, in a Part 1 application to the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), of undue delays in granting access to its network for the launch of
Read moreOpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. The company has released a handful of new models and dropped the price of API access — this is primarily of interest to developers, but also serves as a bellwether for future
Read moreData Privacy Week: Are you meeting the fundamentals?
Data Privacy Week is a period when organizations should reflect on whether they are at least doing the basics, says British Columbia’s privacy czar. “The basic fundamentals” are what privacy pros need to be pondering this week, Michael McEvoy, B.C’s information and privacy commissioner, said in an interview. “Which,” he
Read moreFTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings
The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a new inquiry. Orders have been sent to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI that will, as Chair Lina Khan said, “shed light on whether investments and partnerships pursued by
Read moreWhy React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need
Learn how to use React Icons and other React-ready icon libraries to easily add ready-made SVG icons to your React projects. Continue reading Why React Icons May Be the Only Icon Library You Need on SitePoint.
Read moreApple reveals big App Store and iOS changes incoming in EU on DMA day
Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union as the iPhone maker prepares to roll out its response to the bloc’s ex ante competition reform, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Back in September, the EU designated Apple as one of six so-called “gatekeepers” subject
Read moreGoogle extends its Project IDX development environment with built-in iOS and Android emulators
Last summer, Google launched Project IDX, its experimental web-based full-stack development environment with built-in support for Codey (Google’s version of GitHub Copilot) and Flutter (Google’s cross-platform development framework). With today’s release, Google is delivering on several promises it made when it first launched Project IDX, including the addition of built-in
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