Daily Archives: June 23, 2022

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Italy’s data watchdog finds a local web publisher’s use of Google Analytics violated EU data protection rules due to privacy risks over data transfers to the US  —  Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local […]

Reuters: Cisco plans to wind down its business in Russia and Belarus, after suspending its Russian operations in March, and offered to relocate its few hundred employees  —  U.S. companies Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) and Nike (NKE.N) plan to fully exit Russia, the two firms told Reuters on Thursday …

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: A look at efforts to reduce online advertising’s carbon footprint, which, according to a 2018 study, accounts for roughly 10% of the internet’s energy usage  —  Digital ads require a lot of computing power, but the exact amount of electricity they consume is hard […]

Reuters: Yandex says it has made YaLM 100B, its language model for AI research, publicly available, and claims it contains 100B parameters  —  Russian technology company Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Thursday it had made a large language model for artificial intelligence research open to the public …

Jessica Lucas / Input: A look at r/LossPrevention, a subreddit for busting shoplifters; members monitor Reddit’s pro-shoplifting community and share videos of people being apprehended  —  Alex McLeod is an adrenaline junkie.  The 24-year-old, who lives in Ontario, Canada, is an avid martial artist with plans to sign up for […]

Enlarge / IKEA Kreativ, the retailer’s new AR app. (credit: IKEA) You might have seen augmented reality (AR) mobile apps that allow you to place 3D models of furniture in a camera view of your home, but a new app from IKEA will take that idea to a new level […]

Enlarge / A COVID-19 testing tent stands in Times Square on April 27, 2022, in New York City. (credit: Getty | Spencer Platt) Omicron coronavirus subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are now accounting for an estimated 35 percent of US cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The […]

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Vibrant Planet, a public-benefit startup that is developing software for forest management, has raised a $17M seed  —  For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point.  During that record-breaking year, she started asking a lot of questions.

Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: Report: video gaming revenue in China fell for a third consecutive month in May, declining 6.7% YoY to $3.4B, amid a slowing economy and regulatory uncertainty  —  China’s video gaming revenue fell 6.7 per cent to US$3.4 billion in May, driven mostly by […]

Evan Conrad: Crypto may be “more bad than good” but decentralization is its main use case, so the claim that “there are still no use cases for crypto” is not rational  —  I’ve heard many smart people who I trust complain that “after 13 years, there are still no use […]