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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
GitHub announces Copilot X, a new Copilot version with chat and voice features using OpenAI's GPT-4 to help with certain coding tasks, available via a waitlist — Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools …
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The GitHub Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, The Register, PCMag, Thurrott, VentureBeat, WinBuzzer, CIO Dive, Watcher Guru, IT PRO, Fast Company, BigTechWire, OnMSFT.com, and Neowin
LinkedIn:
Thomas Dohmke. Tweets:
@github, @amasad, @gdb, @rakyll, @ashtom, @satyanadella, @martinwoodward, @vykthur, @codepo8, @tomwarren, @stevesi, @firt, @monkchips, @kylebrussell, @kdaigle, and @film_girl. Thanks:@colegarry2
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: |
The US House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, which says the company has spent ~$1.5B to safeguard US user data — TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms … | New York Times: |
The US will find banning TikTok difficult due to its 150M+ US users, political ramifications for Biden including losing young voters, legal challenges, and more — The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company's chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.
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@sangernyt and @jameeljaffer
| Washington Post: |
A look at ByteDance's and TikTok's lobbying before Shou Zi Chew's hearing, including Axios ads and private lawmaker meetings, mirroring Meta's well-worn tactics — The app, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, is adopting the lobbying tactics of many of its American tech company peers
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Associated Press, The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, NPR, and Axios
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@cat_zakrzewski, @drewharwell, @cat_zakrzewski, @viacristiano, @mattnavarra, and @cat_zakrzewski
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Tron founder Justin Sun and his companies for the alleged “unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities” TRX and BTT, fraud, and more — The SEC alleged TRX, BTT are unregistered securities, and claimed Sun created an “extensive wash trading” program to boost their trading volume.
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U.S. Securities …, The Verge, Decrypt, Finbold, Bloomberg, The Block, Variety, CoinGape, Watcher Guru, Web3 is Going Just Great, and CryptoSlate
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@smdiehl, @bitfinexed, @secgov, @jeff_foust, and @bitboy_crypto
| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Ubisoft unveils Ghostwriter, an internal AI tool saving its scriptwriters time by creating first drafts and more realistic non-player character interactions — Ubisoft Ghostwriter is described by the company as ‘an AI tool’ — Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin's Creed …
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@vgc_news, @charalanahzard, @thencsmaster, @eddcoates, @ubisoft, @skillupyt, and @patrickweekes
| Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News: |
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney banned him after he made images of a Donald Trump arrest; the company banned the word “arrested” in its tool — “I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said.
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The Hill, Ars Technica, New York Post, Livemint, and Wired
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@eliothiggins, @eliothiggins, @ronin19217435, @eliothiggins, @manmademoon, @neontaster, @zcjbrooker, and @buzzfeed
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces Mozilla.ai, an AI-focused startup with a $30M seed from the Mozilla Foundation to create a “trustworthy”, independent open-source AI stack — On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup.
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The Mozilla Blog, Forbes, CNET, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Liliputing, Phoronix, Silicon Republic, and Fortune
LinkedIn:
Karim Lakhani. Mastodon:
@danyork@mastodon.social. Tweets:
@mozilla, @klakhani, @kylebrussell, and @neilturkewitz
| Virginia Heffernan / Wired: |
Inside TSMC's facilities in Taiwan, where Fab 18 makes 1 quintillion transistors for Apple every six months, and an interview with Chairman Mark Liu — As the US boosts production of silicon chips, an American journalist goes inside TSMC, the mysterious Taiwanese company at the center of the global industry.
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Washington Post and DCD
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Eric Rosenblum and Keith Krach
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@avbronstein, @workmj, @waterslicer, @ashleygjovik, @brianweeden, @theannagat, @chengela, @asianometry, @shadihamid, @sivavaid, @ajblum, @susandominus, @page88, @keithjkrach, @atroyn, and @page88
| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Amazon-owned digital photography site DPReview is closing on April 10; people can request to download photos or texts they've uploaded to the site until April 6 — DPReview, easily one of the most beloved publications among photography enthusiasts, will shut down and its content will be deleted.
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Digital Photography Review, PetaPixel, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, reddit, HotHardware, iPhone in Canada Blog, TidBITS, On my Om, PetaPixel, Silicon Republic, and Digital Trends
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Jeff Carlson. Tweets:
@dpreview, @thatjordandrake, @migueldeicaza, @glenngabe, @allisonjo1, @toddowyoung, @fb_bmb, @dburbach, @haje, @krazyfrog, @dburbach, @chrismichel, @fmanjoo, @kaimanwong, @strobist, @lokcheung, @bombur, @jpncamerahunter, @film_girl, @tedforbes, and @om
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon introduces new Fire TVs and the cheaper TV lineup 2-Series, says 200M+ Fire TV devices have been sold, and expands Luna to the UK, Germany, and Canada — Amazon announced today that it has sold a total of over 200 million Fire TV devices. That number is a combination of Fire TV streamers …
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9to5Google, Amazon Luna, Engadget, Amazon, Thurrott, Android Central, Variety, About Amazon, SlashGear, MakeUseOf, KnowTechie, T3, AFTVnews, MobileSyrup, Light Reading, Neowin, TechCrunch, Tech Advisor, HD Guru, CNBC, PCMag, TechSpot, Techaeris, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Streamable, 9to5Toys, Digital Trends, and Tom's Guide
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Alex Danskin and Mustafa Hakim
| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion and Asana competitor, in preview, letting users collaborate in shared Microsoft 365 workspaces on the web, Android, and iOS — You can now try out Microsoft's new collaboration tool Loop. — What you need to know — Microsoft Loop is now available in preview.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Engadget, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Microsoft Design, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, Neowin, BigTechWire, Petri IT Knowledgebase, The Verge, and OnMSFT.com
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Jacob Cohen and Jeff Teper
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google, Meta, and Apple want Congress to limit Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, expiring at 2023's end if not reauthorized — Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how US intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users … | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Spotify has spent less than 10% of its $100M Creator Equity Fund, announced in February 2022 to promote diversity in music after the Joe Rogan controversy — Spotify Technology SA's $100 million Creator Equity Fund, designed to promote diversity in music and podcasts following controversial comments …
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Engadget. Tweets:
@ashleyrcarman, @lucas_shaw, @ashleyrcarman, @so_treu, @exavierpope, @simonowens, @lucas_shaw, @charlespulliam, and @ashleyrcarman
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the 2022 Turing Award for the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet — In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.
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Engadget, HotHardware, Quanta Magazine, ACM, VentureBeat, CNET, Network World, MIT News, and Reuters
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@theofficialacm, @mit_csail, @jeffdean, @jessfraz, @nixcraft, @joshuabaer, and @benbenbrubaker
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Job listings site Indeed lays off ~2,200 people, or ~15% of its headcount, citing falling HR Tech revenue; Tokyo-based Recruit acquired Indeed in September 2012 — Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it's laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount …
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Bloomberg, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Reuters, Business Post, and The Verge
| TechCrunch: |
After the Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are coming forward, many of which used Fortra's GoAnywhere file transfer tool — Clop claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations. Now the list of known victims is growing — The number of victims affected …
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@carlypage_ and @zackwhittaker
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at Balaji Srinivasan's weird $1M bitcoin bet, predicting one BTC will be worth $1M+ in 90 days, which is economically irrational but attracts attention — It is sometimes useful to think that the shareholders of a bank are not its owners; they are just renting it from its creditors.
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Molly White, Anthony Pompliano on YouTube, CryptoPotato, and NewsBTC
| Reuters: |
Nvidia announces the H800 chip, a modified H100 chip for export to China; the cloud units of Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and others are already using the H800 — Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), the U.S. semiconductor designer that dominates the market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips … | Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces a toolkit for developers to measure Xbox games' energy consumption “to the nearest millisecond”, helping the company establish a baseline — How much energy does it take to play Xbox? Microsoft Corp. is helping developers find out.| Cam Thompson / CoinDesk: |
Magic Eden launches a Bitcoin NFT marketplace, supporting Hiro and Xverse wallets to let users trade Ordinal NFTs, expanding on SOL, ETH, and MATIC marketplaces — The popular NFT marketplace is integrating support for Bitcoin wallets Hiro and Xverse to help traders list, purchase and sell Ordinal NFTs.| Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Meta rehires veteran manager Nick Grudin, who left to join NFT startup Dapper Labs in August 2022, to oversee media company and creator relationships — Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's effort to cut back on middle managers isn't stopping the company hiring more middle managers.Sponsor Posts
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