AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google Geoffrey Hinton tells the BBC some of the dangers in the artificial intelligence field "are quite scary". May 02, 2023 at 05:57AM

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A US federal judge declared a mistrial in Masimo's suit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secrets claims after jurors were unable to reach a consensus (Joe Schneider/Bloomberg)

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Mastodon announces a new onboarding experience that makes mastodon.social the default server choice, instead of requiring users pick from thousands of instances (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Apple uses its Rapid Security Response feature, announced at last year's WWDC, for the first time, pushing a more lightweight fix to iOS and macOS users (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

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Microsoft partners with PayPal, Stripe, and GoDaddy to launch a payments system inside Teams to let SMBs in the US and Canada collect payments during a meeting (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Sources: Istanbul-based grocery delivery startup Getir is in talks to acquire German rival Flink, which also is seeking to raise ~$100M at a $1B+ valuation (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

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Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine (Forbes)

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