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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks — Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out; her nomination was stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition
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Ars Technica, NBC News, Techdirt, New York Times, CNET, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin …, Los Angeles Times, Fight for the Future, Gizmodo, Engadget, Politico, Light Reading, The Verge, New York Post, Deadline, and Reuters
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@joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org. Tweets:
@kevincollier, @scott_wiener, @aclu, @vanschewick, @anildash, @karlbode, @m_f_rose, @normative, @seungminkim, @notaaroncraig, @jameeljaffer, @mayawiley, @berinszoka, @lindseyboylan, @epro, and @karlbode
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple's upcoming 15-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro will feature an 8-core M3 chip, the same core count as the M1 and M2 — We've been hearing rumors about a new MacBook Air for a while, but some details about it remain unclear. 9to5Mac has now heard … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2023 with a “limited live audience” for May 10, when Android 14 details, Pixel 7a's debut, and a Pixel Tablet launch date are expected — Following the literal input/output puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2023 is taking place Wednesday, May 10.
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Google I/O 2023, Thurrott, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Central, Gizmodo, Droid Life, and XDA Developers
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@sundarpichai, @googledevs, and @markgurman
| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Meta tests returning messaging features to the Facebook app, nearly a decade after moving them to Messenger, hoping to “differentiate” Facebook from TikTok — New York CNN — — Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features …
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Meta, The Verge, MobileSyrup, Engadget, Android Headlines, Social Media Today, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Fast Company, iDownloadBlog.com, and Neowin
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@davemorin, @claresduffy, @pranavdixit, and @mattnavarra
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
US senators unveil the bipartisan RESTRICT Act to let the US ban foreign-linked app and hardware makers the Commerce Department deems a national security risk — A dozen US senators unveiled bipartisan legislation Tuesday expanding President Joe Biden's legal authority to ban TikTok nationwide …
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The White House, Reuters, CyberScoop, Forbes, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, NBC News, The Hill, Bloomberg, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times, Vox, Ars Technica, Engadget, CNBC, Voice of America, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, CPO Magazine, Tubefilter, and New York Magazine
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@michaelsobolik, @gaberivera, @davidshepardson, @kevincollier, @b_fung, @b_fung, and @b_fung
| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: the FTC demanded Twitter turn over internal messages about Elon Musk, details about layoffs, and the names of journalists with access to company records — Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement
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Reuters, CNN, Engadget, Associated Press, The Information, Fortune, and CryptoSlate
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@elonmusk, @kurtwagner8, @shellenbergermd, @mtaibbi, and @judiciarygop
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple announces a yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, 2023's spring color after the “alpine green” option on all iPhone 13 models in 2022, shipping on March 14 — Unlike last year, the new color variant won't be available for the Pro models and will only ship with the base iPhone 14 and the 14 Plus.
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@joannastern, @gregbensinger, @brandonbutch, @raywongy, @rsgnl, @tme_michael, @hypebeast, @rsgnl, @owillis, and @kantrowitz
| Harshit Rastogi / Counterpoint Research: |
Apple had eight of the top 10 best-selling smartphones in 2022, led by the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro Max; Samsung's Galaxy A13 was fourth and its A03 was 10th — - Apple captured eight spots in the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones for 2022. — The remaining two spots were taken by Samsung's Galaxy A13 and A03 models.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Forbes, MobileSyrup, TechSpot, iThinkDifferent, Phandroid, BGR, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, Thurrott, KnowTechie, iClarified, MacDailyNews, Apple Must, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, Wccftech, and Gizchina
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@counterpointtr, @saranbyte, and @tarunpathak
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on rolling out a dedicated video feed, Google and search, moderation, AI, NFTs, growing its 500M+ MAUs, and more — Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline. … Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago …
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Reddit Upvoted, The Verge, XDA Developers, and Reddit is becoming …
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after eliminating 11,000+, or ~13% of its staff, in November 2022 in its first major layoff — Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees …
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DCD, The Register, The Information, Metaverse Post, CNBC, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Social Media Today, Insider, Newser, Watcher Guru, Neowin, Investor's Business Daily, PYMNTS.com, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, gHacks Technology News, Reuters, OnMSFT.com, WRAL TechWire, San Francisco Business Journal, Quartz, New York Post, Tech.co, CNN, Tech Startups, PetaPixel, and Coinspeaker
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Kevin Granger II. Tweets:
@hayskali, @owillis, @carnage4life, @khuze_elikhulu, @business, @evanmcmurry, @lynnmdoan, and @sarahfrier
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Meta stands by its AI release strategy after LLaMA, an LLM the company gave to approved organizations and researchers, was leaked as a torrent by a 4chan user — The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society.
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The Guardian, Reuters, CyberScoop, and MobileSyrup
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@chrismessina, @neilturkewitz, and @akumar
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Many VCs question whether the generative AI startups attracting eye-watering valuations will make enough money, fearing a repeat of the crypto investment hype — Silicon Valley VCs fearing a repeat of falling crypto values warn against pouring cash into hype-fuelled start-ups
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CIO.com, Vox, BetaKit, PYMNTS.com, EVCA's Newsletter, Felipe's Substack, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
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Cam S. and William Passo
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@dannygroner, @stephennellis, @guykawasaki, @yoda, @mcwm, @shiringhaffary, @jamescurrier, @tim, @adamsinger, @grady_booch, @smdiehl, @davemcclure, and @pt
| Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators asked Twitter to hire more moderators and fact-checkers over concerns that Twitter aims to use more volunteers and AI to monitor content — Regulators are concerned that platform aims to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to monitor content
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| The Block: |
FTX sues Grayscale, Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein, DCG, and DCG CEO Barry Silbert, citing $1.3B+ in “exorbitant management fees” and hoping to “unlock” $9B+ — - FTX' debtors are suing Grayscale Investment, its owners and its CEO over their handling …
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PR Newswire, Inside Bitcoins, Financial Times, ZyCrypto, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, and BTC Times
| Andrew Marino / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence and producer Giles Martin on the Era 100 and 300 speakers, spatial audio, Atmos, sustainability, the Google lawsuit, and more — They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos' new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it.
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The Verge, USA Today, Sonos, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Android Central, AppleInsider, IGN, TechPowerUp, Tom's Guide, XDA Developers, TechHive, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, SlashGear, PCMag, Wired, MakeUseOf, iClarified, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, Tech Advisor, Engadget, Bloomberg, Cult of Mac, The Ambient, iMore, Gizmodo, Forbes, Engadget, Mashable, YouTube, ZDNet, TechCrunch, and CNET
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@andrump3, @chriswelch, @chriswelch, @steuph, @sonos, @markgurman, @ow, and @sonos
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to retire overlay ads on YouTube videos starting on April 6 to “improve the viewer experience and shift engagement to higher performing ad formats” — YouTube is changing the way some ads are shown on videos very soon with the removal of “Overlay ads” from content starting April 6.| CoinDesk: |
A New York bankruptcy judge says Voyager Digital can sell its $1B+ worth of assets to Binance.US, overruling objections by the US SEC and state regulators — The bankruptcy judge in the Voyager Digital case chose to allow the deal with Binance.US over objections from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators.
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Decrypt, Blockworks, The Block, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, and Inside Bitcoins
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI tools to Customer 360, Tableau, MuleSoft, and Slack using data from its Data Cloud — - Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce.
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Reuters, The Verge, The Information, Gizmodo, Salesforce, iTnews, TechCrunch, The New Stack, Salesforce on YouTube, Observer, Forbes, Mashable, Slashdot, BGR, Silicon Republic, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, MarTech, VentureBeat, diginomica, Coinspeaker, Voicebot.ai, ZDNet, CRN, Tech Monitor, Tech.co, CIO.com, Fast Company, PCWorld, Insider, Fortune, TechRadar, GovTech, Neowin, Wall Street Journal, and San Francisco Business Journal
LinkedIn:
Clara Shih. Tweets:
@swbjoyce, @anthony, @tomwarren, @jordannovet, @salesforce, and @ideafaktory
| Rest of World: |
A look at the growing social media dubbing industry, which is helping MrBeast and other YouTubers reach global audiences and monetize videos in many languages — MrBeast and PewDiePie are part of a booming business that localizes social media videos for fans around the world.
Tweets:
@decka227 and @techwontsaveus
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