Jacob Kastrenakes
The Reddit IPO inches closer.
The company is now looking at March. It’s been moving toward a public offering since December 2021, shortly before the market started to dip.
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Will the Supreme Court completely upend how federal agencies function?
The answer is... maybe!
SCOTUS heard arguments today on a doctrine known as “Chevron deference,” which gives agencies leeway to interpret ambiguous laws. Conservative justices are skeptical of it. If they do overturn or weaken it later this year, it’ll give courts more ability to shut down policies from the EPA, FCC, and other agency rule-making.
Conservative Justices Appear Skeptical of Agencies’ Regulatory Power
[The New York Times]
Jacob Kastrenakes
Android might let you force dark mode in any app.
Android expert and new feature hunter Mishaal Rahman spotted a new toggle in development in the latest Android beta: an option to turn on dark mode even in apps that don’t support it. If you don’t feel like waiting, you can already try the feature out by enabling developer settings.
Jacob Kastrenakes
Someone save Ballie.
An early pic we received from the CES show floor shows Samsung’s delightful rolling robot trapped in a glass case. I’d love to see this thing actually move around — but it looks like those wheels aren’t going anywhere for now.
Jacob Kastrenakes
People have gotten way too good at Tetris.
Tetris players developed new techniques to more quickly operate the NES controller over the past few years... and that has now paid off in one player finally getting far enough to crash the game — some 120+ levels after the original “kill screen.”
Jacob Kastrenakes
People are already taking advantage of Steamboat Willie entering the public domain.
So far, I’ve seen:
• A couple wholesale reuploads to YouTube (one has more than 200,000 views as of this writing)
• An AI generator trained on 1928 Mickey Mouse
• Whatever this horror game is...
Jacob Kastrenakes
“Always a bad idea,”
writes US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, discussing lawyers who used AI and then cited non-existent cases.
Mostly, though, he seems pretty optimistic about how AI could make the courts and legal research more accessible:
I predict that human judges will be around for a while. But with equal confidence I predict that judicial work—particularly at the trial level—will be significantly affected by AI.
2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary
[www.supremecourt.gov]
Jacob Kastrenakes
MrBeast to Elon: X is not a good video platform for creators.
Musk keeps asking creators to post their videos to X. Turns out there’s a very obvious reason why they’re not.
Jacob Kastrenakes
Meta’s dropping the price on the Quest 2.
It’s been on sale for $250 for the last two months, and now Meta is making that sale price permanent — that means you can get two of them for the price of a single (albeit much better) Quest 3. Accessories are seeing a price cut, too.
Jacob Kastrenakes
India’s government is “really angry” that Apple ratted them out for hacking.
The Washington Post reports that Indian officials pushed back on Apple after the company sent alerts to journalists and politicians saying their phones had been targeted by state-sponsored hackers — i.e. the Indian government.
The government then demanded that Apple say the warnings had been a mistake. (And it kinda-sorta did.) The pressure puts Apple in a tense position between its security ideals and its political standing in an important growing market.
India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
[The Washington Post]