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Sources: Lyft plans to lay off 1,200+, or 30%+ of its 4,000+ staff, days after its new CEO took over, aiming to cut its costs by 50%; Lyft cut ~700 jobs in 2022 — Latest cuts could impact 30% or more of company's over 4,000 employees — Lyft Inc. plans to cut 1,200 or more jobs …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Twitter emails advertisers to say they must now have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads — As Twitter's legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network's new paid-for verification system …
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
In a campaign called #BlockTheBlue, some Twitter users, including popular ones like @dril, are asking people to block anyone who subscribes to Twitter Blue — After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.
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| Matthew Champion / VICE: |
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| Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters: |
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua — Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement …
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| Dara Kerr / NPR: |
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media — Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered screenless wearable with a projector to display info, voice and gestures for input, and no phone required — Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, has given a first live demo of its new device …
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@carnage4life@mas.to and @Gartenberg@mastodon.social
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@michaelmofina, @raywongy, @michaelmofina, @michaelmofina, @brianroemmele, @bengeskin, @irenacronin, @parkerortolani, @raywongy, @daniellefong, @blakejakely, @axios, @jenny____ai, @leokelion, @scobleizer, @kocienda, @thosi43314438, @michaelmofina, @phantasticu, @neilcybart, @raywongy, @quantumverd, @carnage4life, @raywongy, and @tomwarren
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google gives Bard the ability to generate, debug, and explain code in 20+ languages including C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, and Python, and export code to Colab — Google's Bard chatbot now has the capability to help you with programming tasks. The tech giant said that coding …
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Timo Kissel, Gianluca Varisco, Jeanine Banks, and Jack Krawczyk
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@rseroter, @rustybrick, @addyosmani, @rustybrick, @thomasortk, @leighajarett, and @stshank
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
WhatsApp introduces Keep in Chat, an option that allows recipients of disappearing messages to save them if the sender consents — Something to consider before sending a risky text via WhatsApp is that now, disappearing messages are a bit more optional. Mark Zuckerberg is announcing …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources: Google halted construction of its 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase, and doesn't plan to revive the project soon — - Google has halted construction of its proposed 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase.
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: Apple plans an iPhone journaling app to let users compile their daily activities, in an expansion of the company's mental and physical health efforts — Daily activities log is set to compete with existing software — Apple Inc. is planning an iPhone app to let users compile …
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LinkedIn:
Shruti Shekar and Shruti Shekar
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
The US Department of Homeland Security announces a task force to explore potential uses of AI to protect the country, including better cargo screening systems — - The Department of Homeland Security will establish a new task force to examine how artificial intelligence technology can be used …
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Department of Homeland …, Reuters, Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, PCMag, Fox News, USA Today, CyberScoop, Metaverse Post, GovTech, Nextgov, The Hill, SC Media, and Voice of America. Tweets:
@secmayorkas
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Mandiant says the North Korea-linked hack of VoIP company 3CX's customers is the first confirmed incident of one software-supply-chain attack enabling another — The mass compromise of the VoIP firm's customers is the first confirmed incident where one software supply chain attack enabled another, researchers say.
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Zero Day, The Hacker News, DeviceSecurity.io, SecurityWeek, InfoRiskToday.com, BleepingComputer, Security Boulevard, Metacurity, and CSO
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