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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16 — The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary” — Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software …
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Davis Durham and Guy ‘Yug’ Blomberg
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| New York Times: |
Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark — Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.
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| Bloomberg: |
Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the past two months, down 89% from the $71M spent from September to October 2022 — In the weeks after Elon Musk acquired Twitter Inc., hundreds of advertisers paused spending on the platform, wary of the changes … | Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: |
[Thread] The New York Times and Los Angeles Times don't plan to buy Twitter Blue for their accounts; NYT, LAT, and BuzzFeed won't reimburse reporters for Blue — New: The New York Times says it is not planning to pay for Twitter verification: “We aren't planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson tells me.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users' Office 365 data — A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft's Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results … | Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal — The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed.
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Matthew Clark, Kyle Dent, Peter Peng, Daniel Miner, Shivam Khullar, and Timnit Gebru
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
As his companies lag OpenAI, Elon Musk tries to launder his AI “concerns” through the Future of Life Institute, which is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation — Elon Musk signed an open letter on Tuesday calling for a six-month pause in the development of artificial intelligence tools …
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Zuzanna Warso, Michael Hobbs, and Mike Quate
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| Washington Post: |
Midjourney ends free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral — Midjourney, the year-old firm behind recent fake visuals of Trump and the pope, illustrates the lack …
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| The Guardian: |
Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more — Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war — Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare
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Jamey Kistner and Ian Bremmer
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta plans to let users opt out of some highly personalized ads via an online form that Meta must review and approve — Facebook, Instagram parent hopes plans to alter a privacy approach that would limit the impact from EU orders
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| Financial Times: |
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| Futurism: |
BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment — Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard.
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Nieman Lab and The Verge
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Avram Piltch. Tweets:
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say hackers have compromised the VoIP desktop client of 3CX's Phone System, used by 600K+ companies and 12M+ DAUs, in an ongoing supply chain attack — A digitally signed and trojanized version of the 3CX Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) desktop client is reportedly being used …
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Stu Patterson, Kyle Hanslovan, Eitan Erez, and Jason Duerden
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Invite-only Twitter alternative T2 plans to let Twitter users who are about to lose their checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its service — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company's previous leadership …
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TechCrunch, Mercury News, Business Wire, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SlashGear
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
An AI tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying its AI text generation tool rollout has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety” — An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI …
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Mike Grandinetti, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Oliver Süme, and Rafael Brown
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@davidkersten, @lilianedwards, @jjvincent, @striphas, @ibjiyongi, and @k8brannen
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's MR headset may not appear at WWDC 2023, as the company pushed back mass production to Q3 amid doubts about the device creating an “iPhone moment” — Apple has again pushed back mass production of its mixed-reality headset and the device may not appear …
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@emc@mastodon.cloud, @wilkos@mastodon.world, and @carnage4life@mas.to
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft is exploring new ad experiences in Bing Chat, like citations, and sharing ad revenue with “partners whose content contributed to the chat response” — It was inevitable, but Microsoft has confirmed that more ads are coming to Bing's AI-powered chatbot.
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LinkedIn:
Shelly Palmer. Tweets:
@debarghya_das, @tomwarren, @fieldproducer, @jesselehrich, @rustybrick, @rustybrick, @debarghya_das, @chombabupe, @parismarx, @rustybrick, @shiraovide, @mark_riedl, @sub8u, and @yoda
| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers — Block Inc (SQ.N) said on Thursday 44 million of its more 51 million monthly active customers on Cash App were verified through its identity program as of Dec. 31.
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Block, The Verge, The Information, Gizmodo, Payments Dive, Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Crowdfund Insider, and Benzinga. Tweets:
@caitlin_mullen
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Apple wins a US appeal to uphold a patent tribunal's ruling over two of VirnetX's VPN patents that invalidated a $502.8M patent infringement verdict from 2020 — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) convinced a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to uphold a patent tribunal's ruling that could imperil … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge — Google's Bard hasn't exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested …
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Android Central, MobileSyrup, 9to5Google, gHacks Technology News, Thurrott, BGR, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Insider, and The Information
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@lionelgeek and @marie_haynes
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Fixie, a cloud service for helping developers integrate any LLM into their applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures — The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round.
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Fixie.ai Blog, Seattle Business Journal, FinSMEs, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Madrona, and SignalFire
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@mdwelsh and @jamescham
| Bloomberg: |
South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country's semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities — South Korea's parliament easily approved a bill Thursday to boost the country's powerhouse semiconductor industry by giving firms tax breaks to spur investments.Sponsor Posts
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