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Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud — Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities …
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Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews in the US App Store as users pan My AI, its GPT-powered chatbot feature that launched to all users globally on April 19 — The user reviews for Snapchat's “My AI” feature are in — and they're not good. Launched last week to global users after initially …
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Sources: to avoid a formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, after a complaint from Slack to the EU — Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack
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SCOTUS agrees to hear two First Amendment cases about government officials blocking critics on social media, after a similar Donald Trump Twitter case in 2021 — The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution's …
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Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns, or one-third, haven't raised since 2021 — The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
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Pop star Grimes tells fans to create AI-generated music using her voice, saying she will split 50% royalties, the same deal as “with any artist I collab with” — In the wake of the AI-generated hit Heart on My Sleeve going viral with deepfakes of multi-platinum artists Drake and The Weeknd …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: Twitter committed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd's murder; now it's trying to sell those stakes and back out — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — With Twitter expected to default on millions still due, investors at VC firms …
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| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Google announces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, powered by the Sec-PaLM LLM, to rival tools like Microsoft's GPT-4-based Security Copilot — Today in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, at RSA Conference 2023 (RSAC), Google Cloud announced Google Cloud Security AI Workbench …
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SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, and not to AI systems — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent …
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A US appeals court affirms a lower court's 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple's App Store policy banning third-party app stores is illegal — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store's policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to nearly $200M — The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money.| Reuters: |
The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea PM accused of NFT insider trading, begins this week, one of the first such cases involving digital assets — U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens …
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