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The four numbers Apple won’t let you engrave on your iPhone in China

The Verge

Apple is censoring words and phrases customers can engrave on products in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, according to a new report by the Brussels-based CitizenLab. We found that part of Apple’s mainland China political censorship bleeds into both Hong Kong and Taiwan,” write the report’s authors. Keywords filtered in China include ??

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Bookshare without Borders: #2/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. Penguin, he points out, is a growing power in China, India and Brazil, while Random House is pervasive across Spanish-speaking Latin America.

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Intel’s funding threatened by Marco Rubio after ‘humiliating apologies’ to China

The Verge

Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images/Visual China Group via Getty Images. US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has threatened the government funding of chipmaker Intel after the company made what Rubio described as “humiliating apologies” to China.

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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn

TechCrunch

China-style state social credit scoring) while imposing restrictions on AI systems considered to be “high-risk” — like those having to do with law enforcement. .” To wit, as my colleague Natasha Lomas has previously noted, the EU’s risk-based approach lists several prohibited uses of AI (e.g.

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Moonshot AI: $3 billion valuation overshadowed by legal dispute with 5 key investors

TechNode

Moonshot AI, a rapidly rising AI startup founded in 2023, has captured global attention with its advances in large language models and even more so with its meteoric valuation climb to $3 billion yet its success is overshadowed by legal disputes. year-on-year. He later co-founded Recurrent AI with a group of fellow entrepreneurs.

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