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Apple announces WWDC 2023 will be held from June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event, with a keynote event on June 5 — Apple today announced that its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9. Like WWDC 2020, 2021, and 2022 …
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Over 1,000 people, including Elon Musk, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months — We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. — Signatures
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| Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: |
Docs: Binance's CEO and other executives hid the company's China ties for years, including an office used until 2019, despite saying Binance left China in 2017 — Company documents show crypto exchange relied on country long after it said it had left in 2017
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Nansen: Binance saw net outflows of $2.1B on Ethereum from March 20 to March 27, as the exchange raised fees, suffered software issues, and faces a CFTC lawsuit — In a tumultuous few days, crypto giant raises fees, suffers software issues and faces regulator lawsuit
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Goldman Sachs research finds that generative AI could increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period and automate away 300M full-time jobs globally — Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’ — The latest breakthroughs …
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Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried is paying his mounting legal fees from a $10M+ tax-free gift he gave his father with money borrowed from Alameda in 2021 — While still CEO of now-collapsed FTX, Bankman-Fried transferred millions of dollars to his father. Some of those funds have since been used …
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Lemon8, ByteDance's Instagram rival launched in March 2020, hits the US App Store's top 10; data.ai: Lemon8 never before ranked in the US top 200 overall charts — As U.S. lawmakers move forward with their plans for a TikTok ban or forced sale, the app's Chinese parent company ByteDance … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to launch extreme heat alerts in Search, including telling users when a heat wave is expected to start and end, keeping safe, and tips to stay cool — Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves …
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| Christopher M. Matthews / Wall Street Journal: |
Court records and messages from alleged hackers reveal a massive hacking campaign targeting thousands of environmental activists, dating back to at least 2017 — Charity of Rockefeller heirs among groups targeted by hackers; oil giant not accused of wrongdoing
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on open-source governance, business models, rejecting VC firms, running instances, ActivityPub, content moderation, and more — CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network. … Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The SEC sues shuttered crypto exchange Beaxy and its execs for allegedly not registering and Beaxy Digital's founder for raising $8M via unregistered token BXY — - The SEC brought charges against crypto platform Beaxy on Wednesday for allegedly not registering as an exchange, broker or a clearing agency.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find a flaw in Wi-Fi protocol IEEE 802.11 that could be exploited to inject malicious content into TCP packets and more, impacting routers and OSes — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Fetch.ai, which develops infrastructure to help “build, deploy, and connect smart agents to automate Web3 systems”, raised $40M from DWF Labs — AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time …
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The UK government publishes recommendations for AI and tasks regulators with issuing practical guidance to organizations on implementing them in their sectors — - The U.K. government has published a white paper for the artificial intelligence industry. — It calls on regulators to come up with …
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| Bloomberg: |
The FDIC tells Signature's crypto depositors that they must close their accounts by April 5, as Flagstar Bank's bid excludes ~$4B in Signature's crypto deposits — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. informed crypto clients with deposits at the failed Signature Bank that they have until April 5 …
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| Tracy Wen Liu / Wired: |
TikTok, Amazon, and others struggle to adopt China's livestream ecommerce model in the US, as experts point to differences in US and Chinese consumer behavior — Selling over livestreams is a $40 billion business in China. But Americans just aren't responding.| Justin Ling / Wired: |
Docs: investments in 4chan include $5.6M from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura and his company plus $2.4M from Japanese company Good Smile, which makes toys for Disney — Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.| Financial Times: |
As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about issues like potential abuses and hallucination — Microsoft, Amazon and Google among those to cut ‘responsible AI’ teams as part of broader reductions| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell to global customers through localization, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A — The Series A funding round is aimed at helping the Parisian startup expand operations in both Europe and the US.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches — Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday.
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