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June 11, 2023, 4:25 PM
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Platformer:
Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether  —  Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Reddark: over 100 subreddits have gone dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on API changes in an AMA on June 9, and thousands plan to follow  —  The version of Reddit we'll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself.  More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
In an AMA on Reddit's API changes, CEO Steve Huffman says the company can no longer “subsidize commercial entities”, criticizes the Apollo developer, and more
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
Nigeria's SEC orders that Binance halt operations in the country, deeming them illegal as the local unit is “neither registered nor regulated by the Commission”  —  The order against Binance Nigeria Limited follows U.S. SEC allegations that the exchange had violated federal securities laws.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
The Apple Vision Pro's biggest potential advantage will be developers being able to easily plug their iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS using familiar tools  —  Apple's developers already have the tools they need to create apps for the system. … It has dual 4K displays …
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums  —  While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons.
Washington Post:
NHTSA data shows Tesla's FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents  —  Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Researchers claim their model can detect academic writing from ChatGPT with 99%+ accuracy at the document level and 92% accuracy at the paragraph level  —  Researchers say their algorithm can detect scientific writing by robots with surprising accuracy.  —  Scientists from the University …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Onion, backed by some Sandy Hook families and Everytown for Gun Safety, buys Infowars in a bankruptcy auction, and plans a January 2025 relaunch as a parody

The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

More News

Washington Post:
Verizon report: the median loss from business email compromise in recent years is $50K and the median ransomware damage over the past two years doubled to $26K
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
In a test, researchers find that 90%+ of 1,008 jokes generated by GPT-3.5 were not new but rather the same 25 jokes likely learned during the model's training
Bloomberg:
A comparison between US data and 5,100 Stable Diffusion-generated images related to job title and crime finds the tool amplifies gender and racial stereotypes

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
An interview with Gary Gensler after the SEC sued Binance and Coinbase, a fight that has existential stakes for the companies and could define Gensler's legacy
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg:
In a video at a Beijing conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for global cooperation on AI systems and said China should help shape the safety guidelines
Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
A US bankruptcy judge rules that FTX can remove its customers' names from all its bankruptcy filings so that they don't fall victim to scams and identity theft
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