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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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Threads: @metanewsroom, @edmundlee, and @campbellbrown
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
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 …
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| 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.
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| 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
| 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
| 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 … | 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
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Bluesky: @chirag and @katieroof
| 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
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told associates he isn't in a hurry to get investment, including from government entities, fearing outside influence — Chatbot startup has problems, but its founder doesn't want new shareholders to be one of them — The founder of Chinese artificial … | 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
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