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You're Wrong About $80 Games

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Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Lauren Goode / Wired:
Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable “graphic content” and “glorified violence”  —  Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases …

Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS  —  Nvidia is stepping back from its nascent cloud computing business, which had put it in quasi-competition with Amazon Web Services.

Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K+ in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer "callebtc" (Javier Bastardo/Forbes)

Javier Bastardo / Forbes:
Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K+ in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer “callebtc”  —  The Nepali government blocked access to 26 major social media platforms on September 4, including Facebook, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles  —  - The layoffs follow a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles.