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Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024 — Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation — Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …
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A UK Treasury Committee crypto report recommends the government regulate trading and investment in unbacked crypto as gambling instead of a financial service — Bitcoin , ether and other cryptocurrencies should be regulated as gambling given the significant risks they pose to consumers …
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Binance Australia can no longer offer Aussie dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, “our payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions — The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …
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| Michelle Faverio / Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 60% of Americans who used Twitter in the past year have taken a break from the social network; 25% say they are not likely to use Twitter in a year — A majority of Americans who have used Twitter in the past year report taking a break from the platform during that time …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube unveils 30-second unskippable ads on top-performing videos on TVs and says 150M+ unique US viewers watched YouTube or YouTube TV on TVs in December 2022 — Google's video giant says it reaches more than 150 million U.S. monthly viewers on TV screens| CoinDesk: |
Grayscale says the US SEC warned that the Filecoin token meets the definition of a security and asked Grayscale to withdraw its Filecoin Trust application — Grayscale announced last month that the SEC suggested FIL might be a security. — ): Corrects story to reflect that the SEC wants Grayscale …
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| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
Ovulation tracking app Premom agrees to pay $200K to settle with the FTC and state AGs for allegedly sharing user information with third parties without consent — The app allegedly shared sensitive user information with China-based companies known for privacy problems
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple's headset ahead of WWDC: a shift from a vision of eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook's design noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more — Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category …
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Sources: Apple plans to mass produce microLED displays to reduce reliance on Samsung and increase supply control, having spent $1B+ on microLED R&D in ~10 years — iPhone maker makes billion-dollar bet on micro-LED screens — Apple is taking a hands-on approach to production of micro-LED screens …
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At a meeting with Japan's Prime Minister, TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron, and other chipmakers announce plans to expand investment and partnerships in the country — Seven of the world's largest semiconductor makers have set out plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships … | Laura Cole / Wired: |
An investigation reveals how hundreds of freelancers hired as customer service reps catfish users into paying for subscriptions on niche dating and hookup sites — Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether plans to invest up to 15% of its profits in bitcoin, as the stablecoin developer shifts its reserves toward crypto and away from US government debt — - Tether is set to purchase bitcoin on a regular basis from its profits. — It held $1.5 billion in bitcoin as of the end of the first quarter …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
AWS plans to invest $12.7B into its infrastructure in India by 2030, in addition to a previous $3.7B, and says its spending will support 131,700 full-time jobs — Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud infrastructure in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Snowflake is in advanced talks to acquire Neeva, possibly for AI tools to help companies search internal data; Neeva also shopped itself to Databricks — Database software provider Snowflake has been in advanced talks to acquire Neeva, a search startup founded by former top Google … | Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG plan a $5B+ bid to acquire observability software company New Relic; a deal may be reached in weeks — Buyout firms Francisco Partners, TPG team up in $5 billion-plus bid — Private-equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG …
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| Mark Harris / TechCrunch: |
An investigation finds only ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the organization was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below $50M-$100M claims — Years of tax filings give the most complete picture yet of OpenAI's early finances — It's no secret that Elon Musk … | The Record: |
Q&A with FBI's Bryan Smith on how the agency generated over 300 decryption keys from Hive's servers and gave them to victims, saving ~$130M in ransom payments — While there was excitement when they actually got that access, there was no time to kind of enjoy that moment …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
An update to Google's Personal Safety app for Android suggests the company plans to offer a Dashcam recording feature for Pixel phones and other select devices — Rather than needing to buy a (sometimes pricey) dedicated gadget, you should soon be able to use your Pixel (and select other Android devices) …
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A survey of 70 cybersecurity experts: 64% favored reauthorization of FISA's Section 702, set to expire at the end of 2023, with some kind of change — Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! It's good to be back from Denver. There, a 6-year-old repeatedly defeated me and/or incapacitated … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, says governments need to move fast to “protect the public” — Computer science professor becomes latest expert to voice concerns over rapid rollout of large language models
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| Dietrich Knauth / Reuters: |
Voyager expects users to recover ~35% of their crypto deposits as a US judge approves its liquidation plan, letting the company return ~$1.33B in crypto assets — Crypto lender Voyager Digital said Wednesday that customers will recover about 35% of their cryptocurrency deposits as the company winds … | Diana Li / Bloomberg: |
Grammarly announces Grammarly Business, using generative AI to summarize key points in email strings, compose replies, and more, rolling out in June 2023 — Grammarly Inc., a software company known for its writing assistant, is trying to expand its business to the office by harnessing artificial intelligence.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Docs: Google plans to use new AI models for ads, customer service, and to help YouTube creators, and is working on an internal Stable Diffusion-like product — - Google has approved several ad-related artificial intelligence projects to help advertisers and YouTube creators, internal documents show.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Logitech partners with iFixit to help with DIY repairs, supplying spare parts, batteries, and guides for select Logitech hardware starting this summer in the US — / Official spare parts, batteries, and repair guides for select Logitech hardware will be available through iFixit starting ‘this summer.’
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