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Elon Musk tweets an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation and baselessly suggests the former Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization — Elon Musk posted tweets including an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation Saturday that suggested the former Twitter executive …
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| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Mazars' recent Binance “proof of reserve” report only covers a small set of financial data, raising fresh questions about Binance's ability to meet obligations — Crypto exchange has begun releasing data to shore up confidence following collapse of FTX — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained.
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao acknowledges temporarily suspending accounts over “abnormal” altcoin trading, following a spat with a high-profile crypto trader — The company says the observed activity had nothing to do with compromised accounts or leaked API keys.
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Twitter relaunches Blue for $8/month on the web and $11/month on iOS with a checkmark after account review, 1080p uploads, edit button, and more — we're relaunching @TwitterBlue on Monday - subscribe on web for $8/month or on iOS for $11/month to get access to subscriber-only features, including the blue checkmark 🧵 https://twitter.com/...
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Experts warn chatbots like ChatGPT and LaMDA pose a “hallucination” problem, reshaping what they have learned without regard for whether the end result is true — Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @conservcacao, @paulroetzer, @nytimes, and @nytimestech
| Washington Post: |
Some early-adopters are using ChatGPT, GPT-3, and other text generators to write business emails, understand class material, find creative inspiration, and more — The latest AI sensation, ChatGPT, is easy to talk to, bad at math and often deceptively, confidently wrong.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
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Microsoft acquires a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange, valued at around £1.6B, as part of a 10-year agreement for data and cloud infrastructure — Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy a 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group Plc as part of a $2.8 billion cloud-computing deal that pushes big tech further into financial markets.| Jordan Middler / Video Games Chronicle: |
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says Sony opposes the Activision Blizzard acquisition to “protect its dominance” and grows by “making Xbox smaller” — In the latest war of words over its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft's Gaming CEO has claimed …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter starts rolling out Community Notes, the crowdsourced feature for fact-checking tweets that debuted in 2021 as Birdwatch, to all its users globally — Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday.
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| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
South Korean prosecutors believe Do Kwon, who founded the collapsed TerraUSD and LUNA tokens, is hiding in Serbia, traveling via Dubai from Singapore in October — Prosecutors seek co-operation with Belgrade as search intensifies for Terraform chief — South Korean prosecutors believe that Do Kwon …
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Tweets: @robinwauters, @cryptomanran, @caspiancey, @wublockchain, and @tier10k
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it is easy to make life-wrecking deepfakes with a few photos of a person from social media — AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. — If you're one of the billions …
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The Overspill and Ridiculous Opinions!
Tweets: @nick_stevens_gr, @susanbellair, @kevin_bowen, @arstechnica, and @urban_teacher
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
A look at what went wrong at decentralized lending protocol Maple Finance, as $54M in loans, or 66% of its lending pools, turn bad and what could happen next — Maple Finance, the largest unsecured crypto lending platform, is grappling with a debt crisis while gearing up for a major system upgrade.
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