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Internal Slack messages show Twitter deliberately suspended access to third-party clients, leaving staff wondering when the decision would be announced publicly — The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …
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| Washington Post: |
How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts impacted large markets outside the US, like India, with more hate speech, and Japan, with less political trending topics — With 75 percent of its audience outside the U.S. and Canada, the impact of Elon Musk's moderation cuts has been great elsewhere
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Touchscreen Macs will help Apple further unify its software and services, keep up with a touch-first generation, and pick up a bigger piece of the PC market — Apple's upcoming move to Macs with touch screens is about the future of its user base. Also: The company kicks its in-house technology plans …
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| Emily Sohn / Nature: |
Researchers detail health care AI's reproducibility issues; a 2021 review of 500+ papers: health ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures — Each day, around 350 people in the United States die from lung cancer. Many of those deaths could be prevented by screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) scans.
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| Hana Kiros / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at VR support groups and communities helping members process cancer diagnoses and death, question their marriages, turn over childhood traumas, and more — Welcome to “Death Q&A,” a space with a unique combination of anonymity and togetherness, where avatars discuss what weighs on them most heavily.
Tweets: @nanea, @trippvr, @apsilverman, and @techreview
| Jim Wyss / Bloomberg: |
Two years after the Bahamas launched the world's first CBDC, the Sand Dollar's adoption has been sluggish as FTX's demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism — Before FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the Bahamas synonymous with the crypto crash, the country was known as a pioneer of digital fiat.| Financial Times: |
TikTok, Instagram, and other social media apps expect age verification measures in the UK's Online Safety Bill to reduce their user numbers, hurting ad revenue — UK's Online Safety Bill requires stronger age verification measures for platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat| Derek B. Johnson / SC Media: |
CI/CD service CircleCI says hackers infected an employee's laptop and used 2FA credentials to breach the company's systems and steal its data in December 2022 — CircleCI's chief technology officer said malicious hackers infected one of their engineer's laptops and stole elevated account privileges …
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| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more — Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built.
Tweets: @billyperrigo, @gavinsbaker, @paulroetzer, @time, @eileentso, @marie_haynes, @jeffnesbit, @sarthakgh, @deepmind, @glenngabe, and @dylanmatt
| Bloomberg: |
Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% to 538.4B units in 2022, the first annual drop since at least 2004, after growing 17% in 2021 and 22% in 2020 — China's imports of integrated circuits declined in 2022 for the first time in almost two decades.
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Gizchina and South China Morning Post
| Jenny Gross / New York Times: |
How Finland, ranked first of 41 European countries in a media literacy survey, teaches students to spot misinformation on social media, starting in preschool — The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Here's what other countries can learn from its success.
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| Pete Syme / Insider: |
An FTX lawyer told Delaware's bankruptcy court that SBF ordered FTX co-founder Gary Wang to open a secret backdoor to let Alameda borrow $65B of clients' money — - Bankruptcy lawyers said Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda had access to a $65 billion credit line from FTX.
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Tweets: @bitfinexed and @wublockchain
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