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WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks — WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features. The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users against SIM jacking … | Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features — The world's largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more — Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions — Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation? — It is fair to say that Substack …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures” — One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a ramsom.
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| Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local: |
SFPD arrested IT firm owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee, and say they knew each other and were driving together before the killing — Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee …
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| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
The European Data Protection Board sets up a ChatGPT task force, a potentially important first step toward a common EU policy on setting privacy rules for AI — The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on Thursday moved to create a task force on ChatGPT, the agency said in a statement.
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Ethereum completes its Shanghai and Capella upgrade, letting users withdraw staked ether; ETH passes $2,000 as ~1.2M ETH is expected to be withdrawn in a week — The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade.| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Meta open sources Animated Drawings, an AI project that turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings — Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life. The company hopes that by offering Animated Drawings …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps — Microsoft is bringing Windows 11 to its HoloLens 2 headset. The update will be available free of charge, and Microsoft …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
How the US is making arrests and seizing crypto funds, like James Zhong's 50K+ bitcoin, using Chainalysis and other tools to identify criminals via transactions — Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions
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| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify brings its “broadcast-to-podcast” tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts — Fox Corp. is one partner using the audio giant's “broadcast-to-podcast” technology to turn existing Fox radio shows into on-demand podcasts.
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NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform 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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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple made $7B+ worth of iPhones in India in the FY ended March 2023 and exported ~$5B worth; ~7% of iPhones are now made in India, up from ~1% in 2021 — Apple Inc. assembled more than $7 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal year, tripling production in the world's fastest …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source software helps manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM agreed to buy — NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January …
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| Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: |
An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without understanding what lies ahead — The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe rolls out support for images and PDFs in cloud-based video collaboration service Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing to Premiere Pro in May 2023 — Adobe has announced several product updates ahead of the 2023 NAB Show, including the addition of text-based video editing features …
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a network of optical satellites to deliver data at 2.5Gbps to satellites in low Earth orbit, raised a $92M Series C — Toronto-based startup Kepler Communications closed another tranche of capital to continue building out its on-orbit data network.
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| Nate Rogers / The Ringer: |
A profile of Paul Dochney, the 35-year-old man behind @dril, a character born on the comedy site Something Awful before becoming an influential Twitter account — Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act?
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