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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk refuses to answer questions about misinformation and hate speech on Twitter, reflects on six months running the company, and more — The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC — SAN FRANCISCO …
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| Paul Glynn / BBC: |
Twitter changes the label on the main BBC account to “Publicly funded media” from “Government Funded Media”, after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate — Twitter has changed a label on the main BBC account, saying it is “publicly-funded” instead of …
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| New York Times: |
NPR “will no longer be active on Twitter” after the social network took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent — The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The stocks of Apple suppliers Cirrus Logic and AAC fall 12%+ and 14%+, respectively, after Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models won't have solid-state buttons — - Shares of Cirrus Logic fell after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the next iPhone wouldn't feature expanded use of Cirrus' technology … | New York Times: |
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's efficiency drive, layoffs, Meta's absentee leadership, and focus on the metaverse have devastated employee morale — Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Warner Bros. Discovery officially announces Max as the new name of its flagship streaming service, launching in the US on May 23 with HBO and Discovery+ content — It's not HBO Max — soon it's just going to be Max. … The company announced the name change at a press event Wednesday …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn partners with CLEAR to help US users verify their identity for free, via a government ID and phone number or via company email — LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday. Unlike with Twitter and Meta …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch — Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple Music, and other services to block developers training AI bots from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs — Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel's Foundry Services unit partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm's designs access to Intel's A18 process to make their chips — Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd …
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its instruction-following LLM released two weeks ago, with a dataset of 15K+ records generated by its staff — Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599, solid 1440p performance, and DLSS 3, but 12GB of VRAM and poor 4K gaming performance — The RTX 4070 is the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet, with solid 1440p performance.
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| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
PitchBook: VC investment from 2020 to 2022 grew 278% to $5.39B in Miami and 231% to $10.2B in Chicago; in 2022, Silicon Valley attracted $74.9B, and NYC $29.5B — Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky finds that malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2,000 to $20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975 — Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A US jury finds the former CEO, CFO, and president of drug marketing startup Outcome Health guilty of running a ~$1B scheme that defrauded clients and investors — Verdict caps fall of startup's executive team led by Rishi Shah, who could face years in prison
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Video game illustrators in China say they are losing their jobs to AI image generators, which some employers encourage the artists to use to boost productivity — “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."
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| Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: |
Labor consultants say US companies, responding to labor shortages and rising wages, are outsourcing jobs overseas, expanding on the pandemic remote work wave — Companies respond to labor shortages and rising wages by moving some positions abroad, labor consultants say
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A profile of Andy Hunter and his e-commerce platform Bookshop.org, which helps indie booksellers set up a digital storefront instead of selling through Amazon — Andy Hunter's ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit. Now he's on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day in Windows' Common Log File System and seven RCE vulnerabilities rated Critical — Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws.
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| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Q&A with Alondra Nelson, the former deputy director of Biden's OSTP who led the White House's AI Bill of Rights effort, on the AI policy challenge and more — I'm Ezra Klein. This is “The Ezra Klein Show.” — [MUSIC PLAYING] — It would be easy, listening to the discourse about A.I. …
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