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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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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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| 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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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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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, @parkerortolani, @blakejakely, @raywongy, @raywongy, @daniellefong, @axios, @jenny____ai, @leokelion, @scobleizer, @kocienda, @thosi43314438, @michaelmofina, @phantasticu, @neilcybart, @quantumverd, @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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LinkedIn:
Timo Kissel, Gianluca Varisco, Jeanine Banks, and Jack Krawczyk
Tweets:
@rseroter, @rustybrick, @addyosmani, @rustybrick, @thomasortk, and @stshank
| 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
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Mullvad VPN says Swedish police visited its office with a search warrant but left with nothing after the company revealed its no-logging policy on customer data — However, Swedish law enforcement left with nothing after learning Mullvad VPN has a strict no-logging policy when it comes to customer information.| 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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Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, and AppleInsider
| 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, BleepingComputer, CSO, SecurityWeek, InfoRiskToday.com, Metacurity, and Security Boulevard
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@a_greenberg, @a_greenberg, @argvee, @kimzetter, and @kimzetter
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use — If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation. — The AI Drake track …
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NPR, Hot Pod News, New York Times, iLounge, Agence France-Presse, TIME, and TweakTown
LinkedIn:
Larry Miller. Mastodon:
@hunterwalk@mastodon.cloud, @seanhollister@mastodon.world, @anildash@me.dm, and @andybaio@xoxo.zone
| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Documents, photos, and videos show TikTok's US datacenters have faced security failures and use servers made by Inspur, which the US sanctioned in March 2023 — Other security issues at the sites have included unattended boxes of hard drives, illicit crypto mining, and a sanctioned supplier.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
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Zoho:
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IDrive:
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