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| Victor Swezey / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter appears to have restored verification checkmarks to many accounts with 1M+ followers, saying they are subscribed to Blue; some deny they paid for Blue — Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform's biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
In a campaign called #BlockTheBlue, some Twitter users, including popular accounts like @dril, are asking people to block anyone who paid for Twitter Blue — After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.
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| Mike Pearl / Mashable: |
Some critics of Twitter Blue, including @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say Twitter gave them unwanted Blue checkmarks — If you can't beat 'em verify 'em. … The latest speed bump in the rollout of Twitter's revamped verification policy under new owner Elon Musk is here: Spite checkmarks.
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay — Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners to build a test chip showcasing the capabilities of its designs, its most advanced chipmaking effort yet — Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers
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Engadget, Reuters, Neowin, TechPowerUp, Slashdot, Digit, and Bloomberg
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@trengriffin, @mytechmusings, and @martijnrasser
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple XR headset's external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple's app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users — Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset's features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product.
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9to5Mac, Engadget, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, Supercharged, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Cult of Mac, and The Ghost Howls
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@Gartenberg@mastodon.social. Tweets:
@carnage4life, @jose_cong, @business, @markgurman, and @joannastern
| Jaron Lanier / New Yorker: |
AI's mythology as tech for creating independent, intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries — There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.
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TechCrunch and Politico
LinkedIn:
Mark Stouse. Tweets:
@robinhanson, @newyorker, @carnage4life, @drdrasko, @newyorker, @newyorker, @econandrew, and @nicolasnova
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which feature primates in similar poses to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violate Yuga Labs' BAYC trademarks — Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps' RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled
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CourtListener.com, CourtListener.com, Decrypt, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, TechnoLlama, and NFT Evening
LinkedIn:
Veon Szu Khaw, Daniel Zohny, and Mohamad Syahrul
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@ashkernen, @neermcd, @tfine, @akylles___, @eliana_esq, and @katekittywong
| Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: |
Filing: Sundar Pichai received compensation of ~$226M in 2022, including stock awards of ~$218M; Alphabet announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs in January 2023 — Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) Chief Executive Sundar Pichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022 …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
US PIRG Education Fund: Chromebooks are less sustainable and more costly for schools than other devices due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability — Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops …
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goto.vsta.org and Insider
LinkedIn:
Rafael Brown. Tweets:
@paytobreed, @rossfeingold, @davidtobin100, @kwiens, @bronwynwrites, @carnage4life, and @beckykeene
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Hacker group naming schemes, such as Microsoft's new system, are counterproductive for cybersecurity analysis; a government body should set a naming convention — Pumpkin Sandstorm. Spandex Tempest. Charming Kitten. Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @agreenberg@infosec.exchange
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@erratarob, @cyb3rops, @wired, @howelloneill, and @crispinburke
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Boston-based cloud infrastructure startup Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — Volumez's controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge …
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Volumez, Blocks and Files, Pulse 2.0, and FinSMEs
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