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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed is full of his tweets and replies after changes to the service on the weekend — For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
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Thurrott, Engadget, Mashable, CNET, The Overspill, Neowin, Barron's Online, and CoinGape
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Tweets: @oneunderscore__, @elonmusk, @wongmjane, @volksverpetzer, @byjasonng, @cameronwilson, @althistoryhub, @deanmillson, @noah_l, @sassal0x, @chai_coffee_etc, @anothercohen, @tittertakeover, @elonmusk, @taylorlorenz, @randfish, @rjcc, @ashishmohta, @bruce_arthur, @lulumeservey, @mehdirhasan, @helenkennedy, @followtheh, @fchollet, @anthony, and @intelwire
| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Twitter delays its new paid API launch by “a few more days”, claiming “there has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API” — Twitter continues confusing shift away from free API — Without just hours of advance notice before the deadline …
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| Aaron Mok / Insider: |
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers — - TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
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| Dmitri Brereton / DKB Blog: |
At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife — Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype — Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Walmart plans to close its Austin, Portland, and Carlsbad, California tech hubs, telling staff to move and be in the office twice a week to stay employed — Retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Portland and Carlsbad and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @patrickmoorhead, and @newley
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks on its customers last weekend; the largest exceeded 71M rps, 35%+ higher than the previous record — This weekend, Cloudflare blocked what it describes as the largest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date.
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Tweets: @brianleejackson and @eastdakota
| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Google's Photos iOS app is crashing at launch for users with iOS 16.3.1, the latest version; the only known workaround is not to update iOS — iOS 16.3.1 causing Google Photos to crash — A bug introduced in iOS 16.3.1 is causing Google Photos to crash at launch, so users that rely … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
E-book pirate site Z-Library relaunches with unique domain names for each user, after the US DOJ seized 200+ domain names connected to the site in November 2022 — The U.S. Government's crackdown against Z-Library late last year aimed to wipe out the pirate library for good.| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught — After Atrioc was caught buying non-consensual, pornographic deepfakes of fellow Twitch streamers, the abuse against women targeted has been endless.
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR Tracking, shipping in Q3 2023 — Darshan Shankar, the founder of VR's leading Internet-powered platform for watching movies together …
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| Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden partners with payments service MoonPay to let users buy digital collectibles using credit or debit cards, Apple Pay, or Google Pay — MoonPay has a similar partnership in place with NFT marketplace LooksRare. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
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| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
CryptoSlam: Ethereum NFT sales jumped from $546.9M in December 2022 to $780.2M in January 2023, well down from ~$5B in January 2022; average prices were ~$372 — It's alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise. — Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Neeva expands its AI search tool NeevaAI, which provides real-time info with citations, to logged-in users in Europe and Canada, after a US launch in January — Challenger search engine Neeva wants to replace the familiar “10 blue links” in search results with something more fitting for the modern AI age.| Varsha Bansal / Wired: |
A look at the Modi administration's attempts to strengthen government control over the internet in India and its battle with Big Tech, which keeps giving in — The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in. — Akash Banerjee isn't sure whether he's allowed …
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Quartz and Variety
Mastodon: @kkomaitis@techpolicy.social. Tweets: @ahmermkhan, @iamcouncil, @peterguest, and @kkomaitis
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Geneva-based Taurus, which offers digital asset infrastructure to European financial institutions, raised a $65M Series B led by Credit Suisse — - Swiss digital asset infrastructure company Taurus raised $65 million in a Series B round led by Credit Suisse.
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CoinDesk, Finextra, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, Crunchbase News, and Silicon Canals
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple's India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, infrastructure, suppliers and officials lacking a “sense of urgency”, and other issues — Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as the US tech giant faces pressure to cut its manufacturing reliance on China.
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Livemint, The Economic Times, iThinkDifferent, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, Apple Must, and Neowin
Tweets: @preddy85, @johnreedwrites, @chadbown, @patrickmcgee_, @wholemarsblog, and @noahbarkin
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for its stumbles — Andy Jassy says ecommerce giant will double down on grocery despite recent stumbles
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Tortoise, Reuters, CNET, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, and Financial Times
Tweets: @neilretail and @jimpethokoukis
| Reuters: |
Beijing's IT bureau plans to support AI startups building ChatGPT-like models and says 1,048 core AI companies, or 29% of China's total, are located in Beijing — China's capital Beijing will support leading enterprises in building large artificial intelligence (AI) models that can challenge ChatGPT …
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Aspire, which provides Southeast Asian SMBs with international payments and other financial services, raised a $100M Series C led by Lightspeed and Sequoia — Aspire Pte, a fintech startup serving businesses, raised $100 million in a round that more than doubled its valuation, defying a market downturn for young tech firms.
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