Microsoft announced the start of a new generation of Windows laptops on Monday when the US tech company introduced its first Copilot Plus PCs with Snapdragon X chipsets. Artificial intelligence plays a crucial role in the new devices. Instead of Intel, the first models are powered by Qualcomm. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is initially not allowed to be extradited to the USA, where he faces a long prison sentence. This was decided by the London High Court. Assange is allowed to appeal. And the dating app operator Bumble is on a shopping spree and could focus more on community building than on finding a partner in the future. The most important reports at a glance.
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As “the fastest, most AI-enabled PCs ever built“, announced Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the new Copilot Plus PCs at. The US tech group provided the new computer category with integrated artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday at a launch event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The Copilot Plus PCs are Windows laptops with built-in AI hardware and support for AI features throughout the operating system. Intel will be the first to produce new devices of Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors driven. They really should coming onto the market soon. Microsoft announces Copilot Plus PCs with integrated AI hardware
Meanwhile, in London, the inglorious Trouble over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange into the next round. After a approximately two-hour hearing on Monday gave the London High Court an application from the native Australian partially takes place. Assange is allowed in Appeal against his threatened extradition to the USA go into appeal. He is threatened in the USA up to 175 years in prison. Assange has been in prison since 2019 in custody at the British maximum security prison Belmarsh. The US authorities are accusing him of several revelations of US war crimes in Iraq on Wikileaks Betrayal of secrets, conspiracy and cyber attacks on the Pentagon before. British court: Assange can appeal against extradition to the USA
There have been better times for dating apps. All major providers have it Problems with subscription numbers to fight. That’s how he did it Dating app operator Bumble already tight due to a slump in profits this year laid off a third of its workforce. Recently, the company hinted that instead of dating, friendships will be in the future a greater focus in the portfolio could represent. Now Bumble shines a first step in this direction to go. Bumble announced Adopt the Geneva community app to want. It is unclear what will happen in the event of a takeover. Bumble acquires the community building app Geneva
In Venezuela, on the other hand, crypto mining farms are looking into an uncertain future. The use of cryptoassets has increased in the South American country in recent years, not least because of hyperinflation, increased. More and more Venezuelans took refuge in cryptocurrenciesto their financial assets before devaluation to protect. Others found income opportunities in the face of the severe economic crisis founded digital mining companies or worked for them. But the mining farms have, according to the government “high impact on demand” for electricity. Last she did Thousands of crypto mining machines have it confiscated. Now Venezuela wants to cut off all crypto mining farms from the power grid
By posting on social media an excerpt from Slack’s privacy principles a user of the chat and communication software pointed out a controversy surrounding AI training with user data into rolling. In the excerpt shown, Slack certifies the right to to train its “global models” with user data, unless you actively decide against it by opting out. However, you can opt out not individual users make, but a person responsible for the organization must opt out request from Slack support. The User frustration emerged, among other things, in a thread on Hacker News. Slack insists that not all AI is created equal. There is also an opt-out. AI training: Slack appeases critics
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