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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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Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/Destiny, r/ethtrader, and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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
| 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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| 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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| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
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| 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| 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 …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon launches iOS and Android apps for Amazon One, which 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.
More: About Amazon, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, and Chain Store Age
| 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: GamesIndustry.biz and Harper's
Mastodon: @FrankPasquale@mastodon.social. X: @matthewbennett, @tabby_kinder, @spidermaani, @tabby_kinder, @lulumeservey, @cordeliaj, and @lulumeservey. LinkedIn: Michael K.
| 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 … | 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, CoinGape, and crypto.news
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| 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, Fast Company, Engadget, PinkNews, Context, Silicon Republic, Tech Policy Press, Advocate, and GLAAD
| 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.| 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, ZDNet, and The Crypto Times
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair bill banning manufacturers from using “parts pairing” to dictate what replacement components owners can use — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has now signed one of the strongest US right-to-repair bills into law after it passed …
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Mastodon: @mixael@kolektiva.social. X: @ospirg, @kwiens, @pdxceleste, @nproctor, @carnage4life, @moreperfectus, @moreperfectus, and @moreperfectus
Forums: Hacker News, r/Portland, r/technology, r/Futurology, r/UpliftingNews, and r/onewheel
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Galaxy Digital, and others invest $75M in crypto fund 1kx, which has raised ~$200M since 2022 and invested in Rarible and others — - 1kx is targeting areas including crypto consumer applications — VC funding has been slower to recover than crypto prices
More: Coinspeaker, crypto.news, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph
X: @lalleclausen, @emilyjnicolle, @pet3rpan_, @tmnxeq, @1kxnetwork, and @dianacbiggs. LinkedIn: Valeriy Zamaraiev
| Clara Murray / Financial Times: |
Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal — CEO Sam Altman wants customised chatbots to supercharge its business but data suggests ‘GPTs’ have limited appeal| 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.
More: CryptoSlate
| 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 …
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, Thurrott, Engadget, PCMag, Android Police, ZDNet, Android Authority, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, MSPoweruser, Droid Life, Wccftech, GSMArena.com, Android Central, Notebookcheck, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/GooglePixel and r/Android
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