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Binance.US suspends USD deposits and notifies customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13 — Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat …
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At an all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg addressed Apple's Vision Pro, saying “that could be the vision of the future of computing” but “not the one that I want” — / Zuckerberg directly addressed Apple's Vision Pro unveiling in a meeting with Meta employees today …
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Chris Cox showed Meta's staff its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app integrated with ActivityPub; documents say the app could be called Threads — One of Meta's top executives showed employees a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor during …
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Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a plan to employees on Thursday that will see it put generative AI text …
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A database on Microsoft's Xandr containing 650K+ “audience segments” shows how data brokers classify consumers by surveilling their online and offline activity — A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr's website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” …
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Antenna: Netflix got more new US subscriptions May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any four-day period since at least 2019 — Shortly after change, company had highest rate of sign-ups since Antenna began tracking data in 2019
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Robinhood says it will end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance — - Robinhood will no longer support Solana, Polygon or Cardano after June 27, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. ET.
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Spotify is testing a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which will automatically save a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening — / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’
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Barracuda asked its Email Security Gateway customers on June 6 to replace infected appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20 — It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission …
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The Dutch government asks TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the platform, with plans to analyze how the algorithm functions — The Dutch government asked ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the social media platform in a bid to protect users online.
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Researchers find loopholes in Nvidia's NeMo Framework, which helps developers work with LLMs, letting them bypass safety restraints to reveal private data — Researchers manipulate feature in ways that could reveal sensitive information — A feature in Nvidia's artificial intelligence software … | John Perrino / Tech Policy Press: |
Six US senators reintroduce a bipartisan bill to improve social media transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, moderation stats, and more — John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory. — The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US — Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.| Hilary Allen / Financial Times: |
After the SEC's recent actions and failures of FTX, Celsius, and Luna, Republican lawmakers proposing a crypto market bill is a jarring gift to the industry — Republican proposal for new legislation would legitimise the digital asset industry and undermine investor protection| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Source: a recent Meta employee survey found 26% of respondents expressed confidence in leadership and 43% said they felt valued, vs. 31% and 58% in October 2022 — The Facebook parent company is betting that more job security and innovations in artificial intelligence will boost the internal mood as well as the company's bottom line| Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: |
A US judge rejects a request to relinquish control over $7.3B in disputed FTX assets; Bahamian liquidators had argued a local judge should oversee the process — Liquidators had argued the assets should be overseen by a court in the Bahamas during a bankruptcy hearing for the exchange on Thursday.
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A look at Japan's expanding chip sector, aided by $14B+ in subsidies, including for TSMC's plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by narrow, jammed roads — Every morning, some of the world's top chip engineers can be found stuck in traffic on Kumamoto Prefecture's Route 30 … | Reuters: |
Disney's Hotstar plans to offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices, following JioCinema's recent success with a similar strategy — Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) Hotstar will offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices … Sponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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