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April 23, 2023, 3:30 AM

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Mike Pearl / Mashable:
Some critics of Twitter Blue, such as @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say they have been given 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.
Victor Swezey / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Blue checkmarks were restored on Saturday for some of the platform's biggest names, including those who had not criticized the verification system  —  Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform's biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
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.
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 …
Monica Chin / The Verge:
Report: cheap Chromebooks, due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability, are less sustainable and more expensive for schools than pricier devices  —  Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops …
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
A look at GeoComply, which says it checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the bets are happening in a US state where they're legal  —  Even before online wagering on sports was legal in the U.S., Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs predicted that gambling apps would need to know where their customers were.
Pew Research Center:
A survey of 11,004 US adults: 62% believe AI will have a major impact on workers, 28% think AI will impact them, and 71% oppose AI use in final hiring decisions  —  62% believe artificial intelligence will have a major impact on jobholders overall in the next 20 years, but far fewer think it will greatly affect them personally.
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 …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
GitHub's private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers privately disclose security flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability  —  GitHub announced that private vulnerability reporting is now generally available and can be enabled at scale, on all repositories belonging to an organization.

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