🤖 Google AI Refines Search, Musk Throttles Web, Drones' Future?
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Google's AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements. Google today is rolling out a few new updates to its nearly three-month-old Search Generative Experience (SGE), the company's AI-powered conversational mode in Search, with a goal of helping users better learn and more sense of the information discover on the web. By Sarah Perez via TechCrunch
Google’s AI search experience adds AI-powered summaries, definitions and coding improvements - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
Elon Musk's X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes. The company formerly known as Twitter has begun slowing the speed with which users can access links to the New York Times, Facebook and other news organizations and online competitors, a move that appears targeted at companies that have drawn the ire of owner Elon Musk. By Jeremy B. Merrill via Washington Post
Elon Musk's Twitter throttles links to Threads, Blue Sky and New York Times - Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra)
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Could Small Drones Really Replace Artillery? In July, former Google GOOG boss Eric Schmidt wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal praising Ukraine's use of small, improvised kamikaze drones and predicting a future where they replace other weapons. By David Hambling via Forbes
Former Google boss Eric Schmidt is putting money into Ukrainian drones which he thinks could transform war. Is he right? - David Hambling (@David_Hambling)
EV charging in the US is still a no-good bad time - and somehow getting worse. Electric vehicle owners are overall not satisfied with the reliability of the charging infrastructure available in the US, according to a new survey conducted by JD Power. In some cases, things are looking even worse than last year. By Umar Shakir via The Verge
News from The Verge... EV charging in the US is still a no good, very bad time — and somehow it’s getting worse - Peter McMahon (@peterwmcmahon)
The computer scientist who hunts for costly bugs in crypto code. Gu is the cofounder of CertiK, the largest smart-contract auditor in the fizzy and unpredictable world of cryptocurrencies and Web3. An affable and talkative computer science professor at Columbia University. By Clive Thompson via MIT Technology Review
Programming errors on the blockchain can mean $100 million lost in the blink of an eye. Ronghui Gu and his company CertiK are trying to help. - MIT Technology Review (@techreview)
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