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Microsoft is retiring its Office Lens app on iOS and Android

Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android in the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Office Lens as it’s known to most, will no longer be supported on February 9th and the app won’t be functional after March 9th. The portable scanner features of Lens are available in OneDrive instead, making a […]

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Google Downplays GEO – But Let’s Talk About Garbage AI SERPs via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google offers advice about chunking content for SEO but is that really the conversation we should be having right now?

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Fired Rockstar employees’ plea for interim pay denied

A UK employment tribunal rejected a request from fired Rockstar Games employees to receive interim pay while waiting for a full hearing about their dismissal, according to Bloomberg and IGN. After Rockstar fired 34 employees last year – 31 from the UK and three from Canada – the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) […]

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Framework hikes desktop PC prices as RAM shortage drags on

Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it’s also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to the global memory shortage. The Framework Desktop with 32GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 chip now starts at $1,139, instead of $1,099. “We held off […]

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Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week

Meta’s Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division’s metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta’s AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division. According to the Times, Meta’s […]

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UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok

The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating non-consensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC. “The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create – or request the creation […]

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Anthropic wants you to use Claude to ‘Cowork’ in latest AI agent push

Anthropic wants to expand Claude’s AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code – and it’s doing it with a brand-new feature released Monday, dubbed “Claude Cowork.” “Cowork can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks,” […]

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New York wants to regulate Roblox

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is making kids’ online safety a cornerstone of her administration, and she’s eyeing a platform that has often flown under the radar: Roblox. As progress in Congress has stagnated, states have become the primary drivers of internet reforms meant to protect kids, including age verification laws and new requirements for […]

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Democrats should reject tech influence to win elections, Warren says

The path forward for the Democratic party after its 2024 defeat includes less tech influence and more populist policies, according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Warren delivered this message in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Monday, where she charted a vision for the future of a party that’s still […]

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