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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
As part of its new Responsible AI Standard rules, Microsoft plans to remove Azure's facial analysis tools, which can guess gender, age, and emotional state — The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person's gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.
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Cloud Computing Services, The Verge, Microsoft On the Issues, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Engadget, Protocol, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, and ZDNet
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months — Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects — Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today …
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The GitHub Blog, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, The Register, PCMag, The New Stack, Protocol, Gizchina, TechRadar, BigTechWire, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @ashtom, @tuxtor, @gdb, @ericabrescia, @github, @minimaxir, @tomwarren, and @joostschuur
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based …
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Meta, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Department of Justice, The Verge, ZDNet, Washington Post, Protocol, The Hill, TechCrunch, Reuters, and CNBC
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
BlockFi CEO Zac Prince says the crypto lender “signed a term sheet with FTX to secure a $250M revolving credit facility” — - BlockFi secures $250 million revolving credit facility from crypto exchange FTX. — The crypto lender says the deal ‘bolsters our balance sheet and platform strength.’
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| Financial Times: |
South Korean prosecutors ban “dozens” of current and former Terraform Labs employees from leaving the country amid a probe into UST's and LUNA's collapse — South Korean prosecutors take action as they investigate embattled company behind the $40bn luna wipeout
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune, Micky, CryptoPotato, Newslit Daily, Crypto Adventure, PYMNTS.com, Blockworks, Benzinga, Bitcoinist.com, Gizmodo, Web3 is going just great, The Block, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Protos, Crypto Briefing, and Ethereum World News
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Solana-based NFT marketplace Magic Eden raised a $130M Series B led by Electric Capital and Greylock at a $1.6B valuation, after a $27M Series A in March 2022 — - Magic Eden has scored a $1.6 billion valuation in its latest funding round. — The Solana-based NFT marketplace plans to launch on more blockchains.
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, CoinDesk, Metaverse Post, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, NFT Evening, FinSMEs, Australian Financial Review, CoinJournal, Ethereum World News, Insider, and Forbes
Tweets: @magiceden, @stevejang, @tomgara, @seldo, @alex, @avichal, and @0xshual
| Peter White / Deadline: |
Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground signs a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible; Spotify: “we declined to extend our deal” — President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama's Higher Ground has found a new podcast home. — The company, which is behind audio series …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon names Doug Herrington, a 17-year company veteran, as its new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, weeks after predecessor Dave Clark announced his resignation — Amazon vet Doug Herrington will become CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores — Amazon has named a new CEO of its retail arm …
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About Amazon, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, The Economic Times, and CNBC
Tweets: @kyweise and @amazonnews
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
ProShares, which debuted the first bitcoin futures ETF in October 2021, launches the first ETF to short bitcoin in the US, on the NYSE under the BITI ticker — The exchange-traded fund will allow investors to hedge their bitcoin exposure, which may prove particularly pertinent given the sharp downturn in crypto markets of late.
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CNBC, Business Wire, Waivly, ZyCrypto, Coinspeaker, Decrypt, Wall Street Journal, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, Bitcoinist.com, CryptoPotato, Crypto Briefing, and Forkast
Tweets: @timoharings, @ldrogen, and @rakeshlobster
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, after an investigative report on the site's years of hosting nonconsensual sexually explicit videos — MindGeek, the internet company best known for operating Pornhub, said that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned.
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New Yorker, Gizmodo, and Input
Tweets: @ayagruber, @oliviapetter1, @tednesi, @lydmorrish, @cyjiong, and @hkanji
| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Uber relaunches Uber Pool, paused in March 2020, as UberX Share in NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego, Portland, Oregon, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh — Uber suspended its shared rides service — Uber Pool — in the early months of the pandemic as a safety measure.
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Uber Newsroom, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Verge, New York Post, Bloomberg, and CNET. Tweets: @carnage4life
| Richard MacManus / The New Stack: |
The Khronos Group forms the Metaverse Standards Forum with Nvidia, Meta, Epic Games, Unity, Microsoft, W3C, and others, seeking to improve interoperability — Interoperability — or lack thereof — is a key issue in the nascent metaverse industry. The Khronos Group aims to solve …
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VentureBeat, ZDNet, NVIDIA, TechCrunch, PCMag, Voices of VR Podcast, Business Wire, UploadVR, The Block, SiliconANGLE, EnterpriseAI, and Road to VR
Tweets: @tomffiske, @nickstatt, @alexvoica, @unrealengine, @ponyweb3, @ricmac, @metaverse_forum, @vishalshahis, @ricmac, @ricmac, @nickstatt, @whatleydude, @keithdsouza, and @vishalshahis. Thanks:@ricmac
| Katie Collins / CNET: |
The EU says TikTok agreed to curb undisclosed ads by altering its branded content policy and ad reporting options and to ban promoting “inappropriate products” — After complaints that TikTok was breaching EU consumer rules, the company has worked with the European Commission to update its branded-content policy.
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PYMNTS.com, European Commission, and Tubefilter
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta adds new Instagram and Facebook monetization tools, and will take no revenue cut from paid events, fan subs, badges, and Bulletin until at least 2024 — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is rolling out more ways for creators to make money on Facebook and Instagram …
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The Verge, PCMag, Engadget, Tubefilter, Bloomberg, KnowTechie, Search Engine Land, Neowin, and Digital Trends
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Sources: three senior executives of Better.com resign, following other executive departures, mass layoffs, and a lawsuit alleging the company misled investors — Three more senior executives of digital mortgage lender Better.com have resigned, multiple sources tell TechCrunch.| Financial Times: |
SpaceX's Starlink aid to Ukraine triggers scrutiny in China, as Chinese firms rush to deploy satellite constellations into low-earth orbit to compete — ‘Silicon Valley Iron Man’ is under pressure over satellites as Chinese rivals close in on Tesla — In the days after Vladimir Putin …
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CNBC, TechCrunch, and Benzinga
Tweets: @jkempenergy, @petercampbell1, @chassnews, @alitahmizian, @martijnrasser, @bondhack, and @rrajagopalanjnu
| New York Times: |
An investigation into Chinese government bidding documents details its expanding surveillance apparatus, including ~500M cameras and extensive phone trackers — Times reporters spent over a year combing through government bidding documents that reveal the country's technological road map …
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New York Times. Tweets: @misaacstein, @mindingprivacy, @nytimes, @paulmozur, @meta_lab, @jjvincent, @paulmozur, @nytimes, @paulmozur, @rprose, @kelleyashbypaul, @laurie_garrett, @chinafile, and @paulmozur
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
DocuSign says CEO Dan Springer “has agreed to step aside” and Chairman of the Board Maggie Wilderotter will serve as interim CEO; the stock is down 60%+ in 2022 — - DocuSign CEO Dan Springer is stepping down in his role after the e-signature software maker lost more than 60% of its value year to date.
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PR Newswire, TheStreet, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Slashdot, MarketWatch, and Protocol
| Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: |
France's antitrust watchdog declines to levy more fines against Google over paying publishers, as Google's commitments now address its concerns and are binding — Google brought an end to a dispute with publishers and avoided further fines after winning regulatory approval for pledges …
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Gizmodo, Google France, The Economic Times, Euractiv, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
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