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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
UK CMA filings: Microsoft details how Call of Duty could run on the Nintendo Switch, citing an “optimized” game engine and outlining the success of past ports — In a filing (pdf) submitted to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft shared some details …
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GOV.UK, The Verge, Eurogamer.net, Video Games Chronicle, HotHardware, Video Games Chronicle, Video Games Chronicle, Windows Central, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket Gamer.biz, Thurrott, KitGuru, PC Gamer, TechRadar, Wccftech, Twinfinite, GamingBolt, TrueAchievements, Techlusive, The Register, Push Square, and Pure Xbox
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@lulumeservey, @tomwarren, @charlieintel, @tomwarren, @lulumeservey, @rand_al_thor_19, @idlesloth84_, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @jeffgrubb, @gazondaily, @charlieintel, @paultassi, @legacykillahd, @tomwarren, @legacykillahd, @twthereddragon, @parismarx, @tomwarren, @jeffgrubb, @charlieintel, @paultassi, @bugharmer, @tcmf2, @jezcorden, @idlesloth84_, @dmc_ryan, and @twthereddragon
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Meta's Head of WhatsApp Will Cathcart says the service will not comply with UK requirements to remove end-to-end encryption set out in the Online Safety Bill — Meta's head of chat app says it would not comply with the requirements set out in online safety bill
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BBC, MacRumors, Politico, WebProNews, Mashable, and Politico
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@shionamc, @matthew_d_green, @jimkillock, @sgdickinson, @lotuseatersnews, @org_scp, @arusbridger, @markscott82, and @edwinhayward
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils a standalone classical music iPhone app with 5M+ tracks, available for pre-order now as part of Apple Music subscriptions and launching March 28 — Apple is launching a new music streaming service focused on classical music. Based on its 2021 acquisition …
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App Store, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Thurrott, CNET, XDA Developers, AppAdvice, The Verge, Macworld, Forbes, Appleosophy, MacStories, AppleInsider, Engadget, Wccftech, Redmond Pie, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, BigTechWire, Variety, Neowin, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Gizchina, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, Music Ally, Apple Must, CNBC, Six Colors, iClarified, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, The Apple Post, and iMore
| Washington Post: |
An investigation details how a group of conservative Colorado Catholics spent millions to acquire mobile app tracking data to find priests using gay dating apps — A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained dating and hookup app data and shared …
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Gizmodo and Pixel Envy
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@tonyajoriley, @froomkin, @emzanotti, @arkloster, @swodinsky, @ukigoni, @washingtonpost, @yashar, and @washingtonpost
| Yusuf Mehdi / Bing Blogs: |
Microsoft says Bing crossed 100M DAUs and the new Bing preview has millions of active users, of which roughly a third are new to the search engine — It's hard to believe it's been just over a month since we released the new AI-powered Bing and Edge to the world as your copilot for the web.
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PCMag, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, Windows Central, Windows Central, SlashGear, iThinkDifferent, gHacks Technology News, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Silicon Republic, Beyond Search, Thurrott, Search Engine Journal, TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, The Verge, Engadget, WinBuzzer, and BigTechWire
LinkedIn:
Ashish Dogra and Yusuf Mehdi
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@glenngabe, @yusuf_i_mehdi, @marypcbuk, @taralson, @fxshaw, @kevin_indig, and @azeem. Thanks:@fxshaw
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Grammarly announces GrammarlyGO, a generative AI tool that can write and rewrite content in a user's style, available to all users in beta in April 2023 — Generative AI was made popular by ChatGPT at the end of 2022, and for the first few months of 2023, the floodgates have opened up for the technology.
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Grammarly Blog, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Mashable, Thurrott, TechRadar, Plagiarism Today, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, MarTech, Fast Company, Tom's Guide, VentureBeat, CNET, Neowin, Forbes, Grammarly, Digital Trends, and Voicebot.ai
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Sharon Goldman. Tweets:
@missloumae, @ignitedigitalca, @benbajarin, @rustybrick, @sarthakgh, and @rajsarkar
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord starts testing its ChatGPT-powered chatbot called Clyde and other AI features, including conversation summaries and tools to moderate servers — Discord is now using OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to transform its existing Clyde bot into a talkative chatbot.
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TechCrunch, Discord Blog, Bloomberg, PCMag, Dexerto, Club386, VentureBeat, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, PCWorld, Engadget, TechRadar, IGN, Tech Startups, CoinGape, PC Gamer, OnMSFT.com, GameSpot, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, and ReHack
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes ChatGPT available in its Azure OpenAI service, letting developers and businesses add the LLM to their apps, priced at $0.002 for 1,000 tokens — Microsoft is making ChatGPT available in its own Azure OpenAI service today. Developers and businesses will now be able … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The White House's proposed budget is set to include a provision closing tax loss harvesting on crypto transactions, with the change expected to raise up to $24B — The U.S. President is expected to unveil his budget proposal on Thursday. — U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed budget …
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Wall Street Journal, The Block, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, ArcticStartup, crypto.news, and Coinspeaker
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@tier10k, @napgener, and @basedkarbon
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
An interview with Google Cloud's Jack Buser on Google's post-Stadia gaming strategy, dubbed Google Cloud for Live Games, hoping to help companies scale games — Google Cloud is unveiling its new games strategy dubbed Google Cloud for Live Games. It means it will use its global infrastructure …
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OnMSFT.com, Pocket-lint, Google Cloud Blog, and TechRadar
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@stephentotilo, @stephentotilo, @killedbygoogle, and @stephentotilo
| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
In a first, the FBI acknowledges buying US location data, which Director Christopher Wray says was for a national security pilot project that's no longer active — Rather than obtaining a warrant, the bureau purchased sensitive data—a controversial practice that privacy advocates say is deeply problematic.
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Ars Technica and TechCrunch
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Artur D'Assumpcao. Tweets:
@stackinsnackin, @dellcam, @kyleseraphin, @toomuchme, @aimiessfriend, @thomdunn, @tinybaby, @jmichaelwaller, and @kimcrayton1
| Christiana Loureiro / The Block: |
Silvergate Capital plans to wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate Silvergate Bank, including “full repayment of all deposits”; SI drops 20%+ — - Silvergate Capital Corporation said it will wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate Silvergate Bank in accordance with applicable regulatory processes.
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Silvergate Bank, Reuters, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, CNBC, Reuters, Decrypt, The Guardian, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, CryptoGlobe, Crypto Briefing, The Verge, Newser, Tech Startups, Financial Times, Axios, Marathon Digital Holdings …, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, Blockonomi, Silicon Republic, DL News, Coinpedia Fintech News, and CoinJournal
LinkedIn:
Dina Ellis Rochkind, Anton Golub, and MacKenzie Sigalos
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@senwarren, @cz_binance, @caitlinlong_, @coinbase, @twobitidiot, @dylanleclair_, @brian_armstrong, @marathondh, @adamscochran, @leomschwartz, @ap_abacus, @hfangca, @paxosglobal, @ramahluwalia, @bondhack, @scottmelker, @ap_abacus, @coindesk, @smdiehl, @business, @ceterispar1bus, @himgajria, @akston_capital, @dataarocks, @carnage4life, @sindap, @dylanleclair_, @tier10k, @frances_coppola, @tier10k, @scottmelker, @nic__carter, @ivanthek, @caitlinlong_, @johnreedstark, @daancrypto, @thetranscript_, @cryptodonalt, @autismcapital, @prestonjbyrne, @northrocklp, @stockjabber, @twobitidiot, @johnedeaton1, @lopp, @caspiancey, @martypartymusic, @jp_koning, @reporterev, @ameliajpollard, @johnedeaton1, @matt_hougan, @mindaoyang, @adamscochran, @schuldensuehner, @vernmckinley, @stackhodler, @shaig, @andy8052, @business, @bloombergtv, @astrocryptoguru, @silvermanjacob, @tbr90, @melt_dem, and @bitfinexed
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Reddit plans to shut down its Clubhouse-style live audio tool Reddit Talk on March 21, saying adding audio needs “significant work”; Talk launched in April 2021 — After Clubhouse's rise to fame, every platform rushed to build a clone. But in the last year or so … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ahead of a March 16 launch, Baidu hurries to ready its ChatGPT-style Ernie Bot, which struggles with basic tasks, to get ahead of its Chinese rivals — Employees working round-the-clock say the AI chatbot, dubbed Ernie Bot, is still in training mode before a planned March 16 rollout
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Computerworld. Tweets:
@niubi, @jordanschnyc, @_karenhao, @tomflowers, @jchengwsj, @jimpethokoukis, @martijnrasser, @hsu_steve, and @niubi
| Jesselyn Cook / NBC News: |
Investigation: some Pinterest users are creating sex-themed image boards of kids and the company's algorithm is curating such content for adults who seek it out — Like other kids her age, 9-year-old Victoria signed up for Pinterest because she wasn't allowed on TikTok.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games starts letting developers self-publish to the Epic Games Store, taking a 12% game sales commission and no IAP cut if they use their own payment tool — Epic Games is finally going to let developers self-publish games to the Epic Games Store beginning Thursday.
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Game Developer, Ars Technica, Thurrott, Engadget, VentureBeat, PC Gamer, WRAL TechWire, Game Rant, IGN, The Verge, Polygon, and KnowTechie
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@timsweeneyepic and @zvaari
| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Amazon's Ring complied with a US warrant to turn over video from inside a user's home and business to police investigating a neighbor, raising privacy concerns — Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI is investigating a data breach of DC Health Link servers impacting thousands, including US House members and staff; some data is already for sale online — The FBI is investigating a data breach affecting U.S. House of Representatives members and staff after their account …
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NBC News, Gizmodo, PCMag, The Hill, SC Media, Reuters, Associated Press, Metacurity, HealthITSecurity, Nextgov, TechSpot, Washington Post, TechRadar, and Infosecurity
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@maxpcohen, @maxpcohen, @amuse, @kevincollier, @demopj, and @fbajak
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the company's role in the generative AI explosion, H100's transformer engine, US-China trade tensions, and more — WATCH NOW — Nvidia expanded from gaming into A.I. Now the big bet is paying off as its chips power ChatGPT| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Railsr, the UK-based embedded finance tech startup formerly called Railsbank, goes into bankruptcy under new consortium owner; it was valued at ~$1B in 2021 — Startups are facing a moment of reckoning in the current economic climate, and today one of the more promising in the world of fintech has cracked under the pressure.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese AI surveillance companies iFlytek and SenseTime are evading US sanctions to access high-end chips via cloud providers and other intermediaries — AI surveillance groups targeted with US sanctions have found other ways to access restricted technology
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ExchangeWire.com. Tweets:
@niubi, @financialtimes, @niubi, @eleanorolcott, @charlesrollet1, and @byron_wan
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