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X appears to be blocking Signal's “Signal.me” links in DMs, posts, and profile pages, giving error messages and showing a warning page for users clicking them — Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
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Mastodon: @privacyguides@mastodon … and @psoutham@infosec.exchange
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| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — The Scoop — The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools …
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| Reuters: |
South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its personal data rules — South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said it had temporarily suspended the domestic service of Chinese AI app DeepSeek since Saturday.
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Forums: r/China, r/privacy, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Namanyay Goel / N's Blog: |
New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is now missing, creating problems down the road — 100k+ views 70+ votes 50+ votes — Something's been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it.
Bluesky: @mariotoday. Mastodon: @rabc@hachyderm.io, @dwallach@discuss.systems, and @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place
X: @nickadobos, @deedydas, @gergelyorosz, @deedydas, @namanyayg, @deedydas, and @elonmusk
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPTCoding, and Slashdot
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources say Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering monetizing Maps — Apple and Meta are set to go toe-to-toe in another emerging area: AI-powered humanoid robots.
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| David Barnett / The Guardian: |
An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more — Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers' platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
Bluesky: @justsmudge, @ben-esse, and @davidmbarnett
Mastodon: @Climatehistories … and @DazzlingDamo@mastodon.ie
Forums: Hacker News, r/HappyBlackWomen, r/TheStoryGraph, r/books, and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and more, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized sector — - Meeting signals a more supportive stance toward private firms — Xi promises relief from excessive fines, level playing field| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model focused on Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba outperforms Mistral Small 3 — The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all of Elon Musk's $12.5B in loans used to buy Twitter, and now hold $1B+ in X debt — Investor perception of debt has changed since Donald Trump's election victory — Wall Street banks have rid themselves of almost …
Bluesky: @bondhack.ft.com
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from $190M in 2023 — - Cybersecurity-focused firm raised $100 million in latest round — Dream targets $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, FinSMEs, and Dream
| Bloomberg: |
An analysis of credit and debit card data shows TikTok Shop passed Shein and Temu in US sales in January 2025, growing 153% to Shein's 26% and Temu's 28% — The popular video app, which brought in-app shopping to its millions of American users in 2023, continued to surpass Shein …
More: Breitbart, Tech in Asia, and South China Morning Post
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in Chinese approval for FSD, despite an earlier sign it would come in Q2; China is weighing using it in US negotiations — Chinese authorities said to be weighing approval as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with US
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