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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
What to expect at WWDC: an MR headset that a source calls part “status symbol” and part “future of the computer”, a 15" MacBook Air, iOS 17, macOS 14, and more — Apple Inc.'s most significant product launch event in nearly a decade kicks off Monday …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Cybersecurity firms say hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software to steal data from organizations — Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software, tracked as CVE-2023-34362, to steal data from organizations.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish Network, and AT&T for wholesale prices to offer low-cost or free mobile service to US Prime subscribers — Amazon.com Inc. has been talking with wireless carriers about offering low-cost or possibly free nationwide mobile phone service …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
YouTube stops removing content advancing “false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections” — In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud …
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| Washington Post: |
ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality — Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: A.J. Brown, Twitter's head of brand safety and ad quality, is leaving the company, the second departure of a top safety executive this week — A.J. Brown's departure comes after Ella Irwin, company's head of trust and safety, left Thursday — Twitter lost a second senior executive …
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John Wood. Bluesky:
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft plans to drop Cortana support on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in late 2023, touting the company's AI efforts as suitable replacements for the assistant — Microsoft will no longer support the Cortana app starting this fall. — What you need to know
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| Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: |
Current and former staff: Meta only gives Quest headsets to employees who signed up to test new features; source: even VR staff don't use the headsets for work — Meta employees don't seem interested in working in the metaverse. But first... Three things you need to know today:
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Sergio Paolantonio, Ash Jhaveri, Pauliina Tornqvist, Ankita Chaturvedi, Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy, and Patrick Bocchicchio. Bluesky:
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Voyager, a Minecraft bot that an Nvidia team created using GPT-4, which obtains over 3x as many items and builds tools 15x quicker than other AI bots — The bot plays the video game by tapping the text generator to pick up new skills, suggesting that the tech behind ChatGPT could automate many workplace tasks.| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
Microsoft expects to take a charge of ~$425M in Q2 2023 for a potential fine from the Irish DPC over LinkedIn's targeted ads allegedly violating users' privacy — Software major Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday it expected to take a charge of about $425 million in the current quarter …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Artifact, the news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, plans to use a GPT-4 model to rewrite article headlines marked as clickbait by many users — Last month, the Artifact news app introduced an option for users to flag an article as clickbait.| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
AT Protocol's account portability tool gives the users of Bluesky, a public benefit LLC independent from Twitter, a way out should a billionaire take over — For someone who hasn't been on Twitter since it became a safe space for the far right under Elon Musk's leadership …
Bluesky:
@coma.photography, @mondial.bsky.social, @treacherous.tech, @sergiovds.bsky.social, @pfrazee.com, and @micahflee.com
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@jeffjarvis, @kimzetter, and @theintercept
| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Twitter VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin says she has resigned from the company; Irwin joined in June 2022 and took over as head of T&S when Yoel Roth resigned — Twitter's head of trust and safety Ella Irwin told Reuters on Thursday that she has resigned from the social media company.
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@asherlangton.bsky.social, @jsrailton.bsky.social, @carnage4life.bsky.social, @darthbluesky.bsky.social, and @caseynewton.bsky.social
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@kyliebytes, @rmac18, @sheila_dang, @silviakillings, @karinavinnikova, @zaleskiluke, @bgrueskin, @zoeschiffer, @0xabad1dea, @mirandadevine, @edmorrissey, @rvawonk, @imi_ahmed, @mehdirhasan, @karaswisher, @fridaghitis, @brucebartlett, @marmel, @hughhowey, @maileprmedia, @troonytoons, @lrozen, @edzitron, @mgsiegler, @zoeschiffer, @silvermanjacob, @karlbode, and @yoda
| Isaac Schorr / Mediaite: |
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@martinsfp.bsky.social. Tweets:
@elonmusk, @jeremydboreing, @b_fung, @elonmusk, @jeremydboreing, @thecyrusjanssen, @shandrick, @chooocole, @jeremydboreing, @scottadamssays, @rmac18, @mattwalshblog, @austinj, @oliverdarcy, @jeremydboreing, @jeremydboreing, @bennyjohnson, @liz_wheeler, @chrissiemayr, @euphoritori, @nope_its_lily, @sethdillon, @benshapiro, @ratbitebaby, @mattwalshblog, @emmavigeland, @darth, @jeremydboreing, and @jeremydboreing
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