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Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017 — The book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat, addresses Facebook's impact on democracy during a crucial period in the company's history.
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Bluesky: @katienotopoulos, @cachiporra, @davidingram, and @chafkin
Threads: @metanewsroom, @edmundlee, and @campbellbrown
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iPad Air M3 review: powerful M3 chip, improved keyboard, better screen, performance, and multitasking than the base iPad, but no Face ID and can get expensive — The new iPad Air remains a great tablet, albeit one that's extremely similar to the last few models.| Charles Capel / Bloomberg: |
X experiences intermittent outages globally, beginning early on March 10 — Social media platform X experienced intermittent outages, with users across the globe saying they could not access the service. — X wouldn't load for users in the US, UK, France and India at two points early Monday …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Consumer Reports: many voice cloning programs, including ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT, and Lovo, have flimsy barriers to prevent nonconsensual impersonations — It's easy to bypass steps that voice cloning services have taken to prevent nonconsensual voice cloning, according to the report.
More: The Register, Consumer Reports, TechCrunch, and ZDNET
Forums: r/technology, r/privacy, and r/technews
| Reuters: |
President Trump says “we're dealing with four different groups” for the sale of TikTok; Trump signed an EO on January 20 to delay the TikTok ban by 75 days — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that his administration was in touch with four different groups about the sale …
More: TechCrunch, The Hill, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, Mashable, en.ain.ua, Bloomberg, TechSpot, The Information, Seeking Alpha, The Week, TipRanks Financial, MEDIANAMA, Asia Financial, GSMArena.com, Benzinga, Latin Times, Neowin, Silicon UK, Android Headlines, Business Today, Tech Xplore, South China Morning Post, Reuters, Tech in Asia, TheCable, Bloomberg Law, The North West Star, and Political Wire. Forums: r/technology
| Steve Yegge / @steve_yegge: |
Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support — I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don't even
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X: @steve_yegge, @realgenekim, @t_blom, @alliekmiller, @realgenekim, @jlongster, @wangzjeff, @tayl0rwtf, @melkeydev, @t_blom, @meekaale, @joedevon, and @steve_yegge. Forums: Hacker News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Some early Manus users say the agentic AI is no panacea, with long waits, errors, unsatisfying answers, and endless loops often plaguing the experience — Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert.
More: TechRadar, Quartz, Axios, The Register, BGR, Benzinga, The Decoder, and Tech in Asia
| Craig S. Smith / Forbes: |
More: Manus, Luiza's Newsletter, The Economic Times, The Crypto Times, The Independent, ecns, Digit, Business Today, Cautious Optimism, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, DigiTimes, Interesting Engineering, WinBuzzer, Trak.in, Marginal Revolution, and Marginal Revolution
Bluesky: @sungkim, @luok.ai, @timkellogg.me, and @prietschka
X: @victormustar, @manusai_hq, @rowancheung, @deanwball, @deedydas, @teortaxestex, @levie, @dorialexander, @minchoi, @gpt45dog, @deryatr_, @deanwball, @adcock_brett, @jenzhuscott, @xlr8harder, @nabeelqu, @ivanfioravanti, @heyshrutimishra, @johnrushx, @deanwball, @zebird0, @zoomyzoomm, @petesena, @dorialexander, @webtwitr, @adcock_brett, @lamardealmaker, @deanwball, @juliangoldieseo, @dorialexander, @deanwball, @qinzytech, @krishnanrohit, @griffin_ai, @slow_developer, @juliangoldieseo, @heybarsee, @oozn, @modeledbehavior, @mckaywrigley, @jenzhuscott, @saboo_shubham_, @minchoi, @awilkinson, @thinking_panda, and @jenzhuscott
LinkedIn: Abdullah Hassan, Kris Constable, Tzachi Zornstain, Mark Channon, Mohamed Diab, Donald Farmer, James V Baber, and Subas Chandra Khanal Cissp. Forums: r/China_irl
| Financial Times: |
Stripe, Revolut, and other banks and fintechs rush to launch stablecoins; there are ~$210B in stablecoins issued globally, including Tether printing $142B — Bank of America and Stripe target market for payments in cryptocurrencies — Some of the world's largest banks and fintechs … | Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release — In industries from finance to retail, companies are seeking artificial-intelligence skills when looking for technology staff
Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: workflow automation company ServiceNow nears an agreement to buy enterprise AI assistant company Moveworks in a deal that could value Moveworks at ~$3B — - Transaction could value Moveworks at close to $3 billion — ServiceNow has been pushing into generative AI products| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised an $80M Series C at an $830M valuation, up from $350M in 2023 — As the U.S. trucking industry gears up for the negative impacts of U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs on goods imported …
More: San Francisco Business Times, FinSMEs, FinTech Global, and Yahoo Finance
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf says current AI development paradigms won't yield outside-the-box problem solving that leads to true scientific breakthroughs — AI company founders have a reputation for making bold claims about the technology's potential to reshape fields, particularly the sciences.
Bluesky: @prietschka and @martinsfp
X: @thom_wolf, @thom_wolf, @littmath, and @thom_wolf
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS refuses to hear BMC's appeal and revive a $1.6B award against IBM, which was accused by BMC of poaching a client in violation of a licensing agreement — The US Supreme Court refused to revive a $1.6 billion award against International Business Machines Corp., which was accused … Sponsor Posts
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