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| Bloomberg: |
US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's key routes to the banking system, accelerating since FTX collapsed, pushing the industry to the fringes — Crypto's free pass is getting yanked as the most powerful US financial regulators rapidly close key doors to the country's banking system.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend — For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
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Tweets: @oneunderscore__, @elonmusk, @wongmjane, @elonmusk, @chai_coffee_etc, @taylorlorenz, @randfish, @anothercohen, @ashishmohta, @bruce_arthur, @lulumeservey, @althistoryhub, @volksverpetzer, @deanmillson, @tittertakeover, @mehdirhasan, @byjasonng, @noah_l, @sassal0x, @helenkennedy, @followtheh, @fchollet, @anthony, @intelwire, @cameronwilson, and @rjcc
| New York Times: |
Over 30 prominent Chinese dissidents and activists report problems with their Twitter accounts, including disappearing from search or unexplained suspensions — As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.
Tweets: @sarahemclaugh, @alexanderburns, @shiraovide, @paulmozur, and @isaacstonefish
| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
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| Varsha Bansal / Wired: |
A look at the Modi administration's attempts to strengthen government control over the internet in India and its battle with Big Tech, which keeps giving in — The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in. — Akash Banerjee isn't sure whether he's allowed …
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| Dmitri Brereton / DKB Blog: |
At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife — Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype — Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.
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Tweets: @movingtothesun, @vladquant, @erichallahan, @jeffjarvis, @carnage4life, @pt, @daniel_sugarman, @quantick, @rayminehane, @zacharynado, @chafkin, @withinrafael, @harrymccracken, @jamespoulos, @tomgara, @sonnybunch, @benedictevans, @danshipper, @benedictevans, @edzitron, @pkafka, @robleathern, @jeffgerstmann, @danshipper, @firstadopter, @macwbishop, @lordravenscraft, @tomgara, @fchollet, @noupside, @tomgara, @protoninspector, @transscribe, @rachelmetz, @zidansports, @robleathern, @ted_underwood, @mcwm, @fchollet, @dlind, @noahpinion, @tedgioia, @marceloplima, @bentossell, @maxwinebach, and @rustybrick
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for its stumbles — Andy Jassy says ecommerce giant will double down on grocery despite recent stumbles
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Eric Schmidt-backed startup Ishtari, which uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of each component — The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple's India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, infrastructure, suppliers and officials lacking a “sense of urgency”, and other issues — Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as the US tech giant faces pressure to cut its manufacturing reliance on China.
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
DARPA says its Air Combat Evolution developers used AI to successfully fly a modified F-16 test aircraft multiple times in December 2022 — The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. — Chloe Xiang
Tweets: @ldrogen and @chrismessina
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram plans to shutter live shopping on March 16, 2023, following Facebook, and will focus on ads to help users discover businesses and shops on Instagram — As Meta gears up for its “year of efficiency,” the company announced today it's exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram … | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
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| Aaron Mok / Insider: |
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers — - TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
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Tweets: @relientkenny, @realadamrose, @nickcicero, and @mattnavarra
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 6 with new and updated tests for hardware and apps using datasets that are more representative of real world workloads — According to its developer, Primate Labs, Geekbench 6 has new and updated tests that are meant to fully test modern hardware … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Otter.ai announces OtterPilot, an AI assistant that summarizes meetings, captures images of slides, and more, rolling out to all users in the coming days — AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai is launching a new AI meeting assistant called OtterPilot, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Walmart plans to close its Austin, Portland, and Carlsbad, California tech hubs, telling staff to move and be in the office twice a week to stay employed — Retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Portland and Carlsbad and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs
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The Information, PCMag, Insider, Silicon Florist, GeekWire, Fortune, Reuters, Forbes, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @carnage4life, @patrickmoorhead, and @newley
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, offering a personalized narrative based on a theme and questions, written by an AI based on OpenAI's publicly available API — BuzzFeed — the media site that made its name (literally) spinning out viral content — landed in the middle of the buzz itself … | Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
E-book pirate site Z-Library relaunches with unique domain names for each user, after the US DOJ seized 200+ domain names connected to the site in November 2022 — By providing free access to millions of books, Z-Library became the go-to site for many readers in recent years.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Monad Labs, founded by former Jump Trading developers to build an Ethereum virtual machine-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, raised a $19M seed led by Dragonfly — - Monad Labs raises $19 million from Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant, Cobie, Hasu and others.
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Monad Labs, FinSMEs, Cryptonews, Tech Startups, TechCrunch, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @keonehd, @hosseeb, and @yogita_khatri5
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail tensions during the US-TikTok negotiations over the Chinese government's role and influence, including a possible veto over a future deal — ByteDance is under pressure from the U.S. to silo—or divest—TikTok's American operations, but the company also has to navigate Beijing's druthers| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Google launches Privacy Sandbox on Android in beta, starting with a small number of Android 13 devices and bringing the OS in line with Apple's ATT updates — Here's a preview of the Privacy Sandbox, the newfangled way companies will follow you around the web that's supposed to be better for your privacy.
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AdExchanger, TechCrunch, Android Authority, The Register, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Police, Wccftech, and The Keyword
| Shubham Agarwal / Wired: |
After backlash, Spotify removes a clause that let Apple use audiobooks from Findaway Voices to develop synthetic voices; Spotify acquired Findaway in June 2022 — After a backlash, Spotify has removed a clause that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Google's Photos iOS app is crashing at launch for users with iOS 16.3.1, the latest version; the only known workaround is not to update iOS — iOS 16.3.1 causing Google Photos to crash — A bug introduced in iOS 16.3.1 is causing Google Photos to crash at launch, so users that rely … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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