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Reports: Twitter laid off “well above 50” staff over the weekend, including Director of Product Management Esther Crawford and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper — Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Some AI companies are hiring “prompt engineers”, who create and refine text prompts for chatbots to understand the AI systems' flaws and coax optimal results — When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Some experts, particularly those advocating for “ethical AI” or “responsible AI”, say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous to the public — Even the people behind new artificial intelligence systems say their buzzy products are ‘somewhat broken.’ They're relying on us to fix them.
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| Molly White: |
Jump and Oasis recovering ~120K stolen ether demonstrates how multisig-controlled upgradeable smart contracts undermine trustlessness and censorship-resistance — Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Inside Apple's Exploratory Design Group, which is working on advanced tech like a glucose monitor and built some of the iPhone's and Mac's chip and battery tech — Apple has a secret team working to bring noninvasive glucose monitoring to its smartwatch, but that's not all it's pursuing.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Editors at some literary magazines say they are getting overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions, potentially crowding out genuine submissions from newer writers — A short story titled “The Last Hope” first hit Sheila Williams' desk in early January.
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Sources: the cyberattack on Dish Network was “by an outside bad actor, a known threat agent” and the company is working with an external vendor to fix the issue — American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites …
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| Kate Lindsay / The Verge: |
As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators online are sometimes being asked to prove that they're human — Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day, however, a different conversation was going down.
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| Ben Sin / XDA Developers: |
Hands-on with the Xiaomi Wireless AR Smart Glass Explorer Edition, featuring two micro-OLED screens, three front-facing cameras, and weighing 126g, in prototype — Xiaomi's AR Smart Glasses are a prototype not meant for commercial release right now, but the hardware feels more than ready
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| Hudson Lockett / Financial Times: |
Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is “co-operating in an investigation”, more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance — Investment bank reports Bao Fan is assisting Chinese authorities with investigation — China Renaissance said its missing founder Bao Fan …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
GSMA unveils Open Gateway, an initiative with 21 carriers offering open-source APIs using AWS and Azure to provide carrier billing, location, and other services — APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: used to integrate applications with each other … | Stephen Graves / Decrypt: |
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