Follow Up

OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising

Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

Ars Dangerous Google

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/24/24164119/google-ai-overview-mistakes-search-race-openai

Switch back to old google

https://www.theverge.com/24162621/google-search-ai-overviews-get-rid-of

Verge tries

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162896/google-ai-overview-hallucinations-glue-in-pizza

Slack and AI Training

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/

https://awscommunity.social/@Quinnypig/112452921509401306

Apple Puts Rival App Stores Behind a Tall Barricade

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/altstore-goes-to-absurd-lengths-for-third-party-iphone-apps

https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/112486085494364227

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/computershare_vm_migration_project/

News

Head of Canada’s intelligence agency warns Canadians not to use TikTok

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24159310/canadian-security-intelligence-service-tiktok-china-user-data

EU NOT happy with Microsoft

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/112456752185288753

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/google_cloud_network_outage/

Bing down for many; Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search too

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/bing-outage-shows-just-how-little-competition-google-search-really-has/

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/23/bing-down/

Scarlett Johansson told OpenAI not to use her voice — and she’s not happy they might have anyway

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161253/scarlett-johansson-openai-altman-legal-action

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/22/24162429/scarlett-johansson-openai-legal-right-to-publicity-likeness-midler-lawyers

Microsoft Power BI users warned over pace of Fabric migration

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/21/microsoft_power_bi_users_warned/

Apple Rumours

Canada and UK in line for first Vision Pro international rollout – Gurman

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/20/vision-pro-international-rollout-2/

The Mac Pro and Studio won’t get the M4 nod until mid-2025

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/19/24160117/ipad-pro-m4-single-core-mac-pro-m2-ultra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

Apple’s M5 foldable-display MacBook expected to feature 18.76-inch screen, similar to 13-inch Air when folded

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/23/foldable-display-macbook-expected-to-feature-1876-inch-screen/

Media

Web Only Apple Music

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/05/16/web-only-apple-music-features/

Apple’s time travel comedy Time Bandits starts streaming in July

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160764/time-bandits-streaming-release-date-apple-tv-plus

Inside Out 2

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22022452/ - 14th June

Deadpool and Wolverine

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6263850/ - July 25th

Games

Microsoft to add next Call of Duty to Xbox Game Pass, WSJ reports

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24158934/microsoft-call-of-duty-xbox-game-pass-plans

XDefiant

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/game/xdefiant

Main Show

Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160711/microsoft-surface-event-ai-windows-biggest-announcements

RewindAI

https://www.rewind.ai/

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160463/microsoft-windows-laptops-copilot-arm-chips-m1

Dell’s reworked, Intel-free XPS 13 lasts an incredible 27 hours

https://www.stuff.tv/news/dells-reworked-intel-free-xps-13-lasts-an-incredible-27-hours/

App of the Week

Steam Deck

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

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