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March 29, 2024, 12:25 PM

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X says all NSFW content will be soon filtered across Communities by default and admins can set an “Adult Content” label to avoid auto-filtering of their content  —  A day after researchers surfaced X's plans to test NSFW adult communities on the platform formerly known as Twitter …
New York Times:
Experts and documents: the US is years from having a reliable alternative source for time and navigation services if adversaries were to interrupt GPS signals  —  GPS has become essential for modern life, but its satellites and signals are vulnerable to attack.  China is years ahead in developing alternatives.
Meredith Whittaker / LPE Project:
Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks  —  Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act …
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
In a lawsuit, four Canadian school boards seek damages of CA$4B+ from Meta, Snap, and TikTok for allegedly causing learning and mental health crises in students  —  Four Canadian school boards have sought more than C$4 billion ($2.96 billion) in damages from social media firms such as Meta Platforms …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AI21 Labs launches Jamba, a text-generating and text-analyzing AI model that integrates transformers and Mamba, which is based on Structured State Space models  —  Increasingly, the AI industry is moving toward generative AI models with longer contexts.  But models with large context windows tend to be compute-intensive.
David Kirton / Reuters:
Huawei reports fastest growth in four years for 2023, as revenue up 9.63% to $97.48B, net profit up 144.5% to ~$12.04B, consumer revenue up 17.3% to ~$34.79B  —  China's Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) saw its fastest growth in four years in 2023, with a rebound in its consumer segment and income …
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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