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Gordon Moore, Intel's co-founder and former CEO and author of Moore's Law, dies at the age of 94 — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A researcher finds Verification settings in Twitter's app showing that the company may be working on letting Blue subscribers hide their blue checkmark — Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription.
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Sensor Tower: Twitter Blue had 385K+ subscribers on iOS and Android and made $11M on mobile in its first three months, including ~$8M from 246K US subscribers — Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able …
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| Jameel Jaffer / New York Times: |
A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users — The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
TikTok says Enes Freedom, a former NBA player critical of China, was banned for 12 days due to an error by US moderators before being reinstated on March 23 — Enes Kanter Freedom, a popular figure on the right, had his account restored on the same day TikTok's chief was grilled on Capitol Hill.| Washington Post: |
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| Gary Price / LJ Infodocket: |
A federal judge decides in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending program — This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible. — This coverage is free for all visitors.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft threatens to cut rivals' Bing search index access if they use it for their AI chat tools and warns at least two customers of violating terms — Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers' personal info — OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM which the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford's Alpaca model — Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK CMA narrows its probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard bid, saying new evidence “provisionally alleviates” concerns about UK game console supply — The UK's antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today.
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| Georgia Gee / The Intercept: |
An investigation finds US homeowners associations teaming up with police to install Flock Safety's license plate surveillance cameras, without telling residents — At a city council meeting in June 2021, Mayor Thomas Kilgore, of Lakeway, Texas, made an announcement that confused his community.
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Gerry Kennedy. Tweets:
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| The Verge: |
AI chatbots comparison test: ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited — The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.
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