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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Elon Musk claims Substack links were never blocked and it was “trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone” — Elon Musk broke his silence about the Twitter CEO's conflict with the online publishing site Substack and one of its biggest writers Matt Taibbi on Saturday.
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| Matt Taibbi / Racket News: |
Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes — On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess — Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.
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| The Verge: |
Twitter starts marking Substack links with a warning that the link “has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe” — Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe. If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL …
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| The Verge: |
Substack's founders criticize Twitter, saying the abrupt change is a reminder of why writers need a platform “that protects the free press and free speech” — / Substack's founders say this serves as a reminder of why writers need a platform that 'puts them in charge …
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| Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: |
Twitter replaces the “state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “government funded” — Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR's account this week, replacing …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Experts say that when ChatGPT confabulates, the bot is reaching for information not in its training data and filling in the blanks with plausible-sounding words — A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
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| Nathan Edwards / The Verge: |
Google plans to end support for the Dropcam and the Nest Secure home security system on April 8, 2024, continuing to drop products outside of Google Home — Google is ending support for the Dropcam and the Nest Secure home security system in exactly one year, on April 8th, 2024.
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@tomwarren and @artemr
| New York Times: |
Bob Lee's murder in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the local tech community to become more involved in city politics — Bob Lee's death has stirred outrage among tech leaders and comes at a precarious time for the industry — and the city it calls home.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers' cash after Signature Bank's collapse and is using at least one middleman to store user funds — As a stopgap, the exchange is using at least one middleman to store user funds on its behalf| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
How Uber revamped its app, attracting more drivers and extending its lead on Lyft; YipitData: Uber's US market share grew from 62% in early 2020 to 74% now — Dara Khosrowshahi and other executives realized drivers' complaints were valid. They revamped the app, helping Uber attract workers and extend its lead on Lyft.
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| Reuters: |
Baidu sues “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake apps for its Ernie bot on the App Store; Ernie, launched in March 2023, doesn't have an official app — Chinese search giant touts product as answer to U.S.-developed ChatGPT chatbot — Baidu lodged lawsuits …
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Times of India and Patently Apple
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs — Programmers' high pay is just a sliver of the company's multibillion-dollar metaverse investment
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CNET, SFGATE, Silicon Valley Business …, Cointelegraph, and Cryptopolitan
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