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A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+ — Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers …
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Mastodon: @pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se, @michelestrider@mastodon …, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @mwyman@mastodon.social, @davidtoddmccarty@me.dm, @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io, and @MattBinder@mastodon.social
Bluesky: @pwnallthethings.bsky.social, @mitchellepner.bsky.social, @joshuajfriedman.com, @kenwhite.bsky.social, @joshuajfriedman.com, @joshuajfriedman.com, @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social, and @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and Jordan Maglich
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch new iPad Pro and iPad Air models in early May; iPad Pros will get OLED displays, while iPad Air will get a 12.9" screen option — - Company's tablet line hasn't been updated in about 18 months — Latest iPad Pro will get OLED; Air will have new screen size
More: 9to5Mac, Reuters, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, and PhoneArena
X: @zollotech and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Wired: |
Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online — A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors …
Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social and @wchr@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @babyboomerwriter.bsky.social
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Forums: r/interestingasfuck, r/Epstein, and r/privacy
| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 — A new Homeworld game is also in development. — Embracer Group has officially divested Gearbox Entertainment …
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Forums: r/gaming, r/borderlands3, r/homeworld, r/kindafunny, r/XboxSeriesX, r/PS5, r/gaming, and r/Games
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
The US OMB releases new AI guidance, requiring that all federal agencies submit an annual AI report and have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use — All US federal agencies will now be required to have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use, as the government wants … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon launches Amazon One apps for iOS and Android that let users sign up for the palm-scanning service by using generative AI to analyze palm vein structure — Amazon now lets you sign up for its palm recognition service directly from your phone. … Previously, Amazon required users …
More: About Amazon, Engadget, TechCrunch, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, and Chain Store Age
| New York Times: |
Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by “Hey, Meta”, are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong — Brian X. Chen, left, and Mike Isaac, reporters for The New York Times, trying out Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses.Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
More: The Verge, MIXED Reality News, Android Headlines, Quartz, TechRadar, and Spyglass. X: @mikeisaac
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to add Gemini Nano to the Pixel 8 as part of the next Pixel Feature Drop, weeks after saying the phone can't get Nano due to “hardware limitations” — After “hardware limitations” were cited as the reason that the Pixel 8 isn't getting Gemini Nano earlier this month … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US and UK are reviewing $20B+ in Tether transactions made via Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex, as part of a crackdown on sanctions evasion — - Allies review Tether transfers to sanctioned exchange Garantex — Tether says it works with law enforcement to ensure compliance
More: The Block, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, Milk Road, Coinspeaker, Protos, crypto.news, and CoinGape
Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social and @noelreports@mstdn.social
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to “kill” products and features with which he took issue — Apple this month sued its former employee Andrew Aude in California state court, alleging that he breached …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and The Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara
Threads: @rsgnl and @rsgnl. Mastodon: @Laukidh@infosec.exchange. X: @zollotech. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Álvaro / eXputer: |
Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X, which Microsoft plans to release in summer 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X — This in continuation of eXputer's previous report back in February. … Back in February, I reported that Microsoft has plans …
More: The Verge, Engadget, Forbes, HotHardware, 9to5Toys, Android Authority, The Sun, MobileSyrup, BGR, Tom's Hardware, Pure Xbox, Laptop Mag, TechRadar, KitGuru, T3, MSPoweruser, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Metro.co.uk, Gameranx, Kotaku, and TheGamer
X: @ign and @tomwarren
Forums: r/Games, r/4kbluray, r/gamingnews, and r/XboxSeriesX
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google's charitable wing Google.org debuts an accelerator for generative AI, to be funded by $20M in grants and starting with 21 nonprofits, including Quill.org — Google.org, Google's charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing tech that leverages generative AI.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
A researcher finds that X is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on “adult content” or other “not safe for work” material — - Screenshots show that people can label communities as ‘NSFW’ — X already allows adult content, but forbids ads on the topic| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 — Silicon Valley has found a lucrative trade selling AI-powered weapons — and Palmer Luckey is leading the way
More: Business Insider and GamesIndustry.biz
Mastodon: @FrankPasquale@mastodon.social. X: @ktmboyle, @matthewbennett, @tabby_kinder, @spidermaani, @tabby_kinder, @lulumeservey, @cordeliaj, and @lulumeservey. LinkedIn: Michael K.
| Open Web Advocacy: |
How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy — In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy.
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft rolls out Azure AI Studio tools to stop users from tricking AI chatbots to behave in unintended ways, including “prompt shields” and falsehood alerts — - Company's Copilot recently generated weird, harmful responses — Defenses are designed to spot and block suspicious activity
More: VentureBeat, Microsoft Tech Community, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, Cryptopolitan, and The Crypto Times. LinkedIn: Ashish Bhatia
| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, calling trans and gender nonconforming people “satanic” and “perverts”, and more — GLAAD catalogued dozens of instances of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets
More: The Verge, GLAAD, Engadget, Fast Company, PinkNews, Context, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Tech Policy Press, Advocate, and GLAAD
| The Information: |
Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit — Bolt, the checkout startup that rocketed to an $11 billion valuation during the pandemic e-commerce boom …
X: @iatalkspace and @erinkwoo
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Search to show crypto wallet balances across bitcoin and Ethereum Virtual Machine networks Arbitrum, Avalanche, Fantom, Optimism, and Polygon — Google Search is home to various tools and the latest lets you look up Bitcoin addresses to show the balance of any wallet.| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced LLM leaderboard used by AI researchers; GPT-4 has been first since launch — Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. — On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 …
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X: @lmsysorg, @nickadobos, @skirano, @max_paperclips, @nickadobos, @sullyomarr, @benjedwards, and @lmsysorg
LinkedIn: David Buxton and Tobias Abt
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
More: NVIDIA, MLCommons, HPCwire, The Decoder, Reuters, VentureBeat, MLCommons, Tom's Hardware, Forbes, Intel, ServeTheHome, Wccftech, and Wccftech
X: @aiatmeta, @mlcommons, @nvidiadc, @intel, @tonymongkolsmai, @mlcommons, and @typewriters
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