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| Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: |
Documents: Twitter closely monitors and boosts ~35 accounts, including AOC, President Biden, Ben Shapiro, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, @catturd2, and MrBeast — Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron? — Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under …
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| The Verge: |
Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15 — Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …
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@elonmusk, @eve6, @buccocapital, @dieworkwear, @mikescollins, @noahgarfinkel, @bestofdyingtwit, @fiercemilder, @lbpheretic, @ultimashadowx, @chafkin, @buccocapital, @astroehlein, @jeffjarvis, @bmkibler, @saruman1, @chrismessina, @pixelatedboat, @tomwarren, @kris_willis, @epro, @jamesrbuk, @nycsouthpaw, @jonlionfineart2, @seyitaylor, @espiers, @pitdesi, @internethippo, @tszzl, @jarvis, @daveleeft, @edzitron, @matthew_d_green, @seyitaylor, @skillupyt, @carnage4life, @0xgaut, @rleighturner, @modeledbehavior, @heydudeimadam, @emmakennedy, @ashleymayer, @willoremus, @oneunderscore__, @franklinleonard, @benjysarlin, @drewb, @rjcc, @bradfross, @angryblacklady, and @mollywood
| Reuters: |
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers and prosecutors agree on new bail terms, including giving SBF a phone without internet and a monitored laptop with limited functions — Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried said they reached an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on Monday on revised bail conditions …
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| Reuters: |
US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of directing the transfer of $40M+ of cryptocurrency in bribes to Chinese government officials — U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, charging the founder of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney eliminates its metaverse unit, cutting ~50 jobs, and ceases work on an Amazon Prime-like program integrating Disney+ and other Disney platforms — The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees — Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.
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| Binance Blog: |
Binance CEO CZ says CFTC's complaint contains “incomplete recitation of facts” and Binance does not agree with “characterization of many of the issues alleged” — Today, the CFTC filed an unexpected and disappointing civil complaint, despite our working cooperatively with the CFTC for over two years.
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@apes_prologue, @cz_binance, @ldrogen, @mrdiamondhandz1, @adamscochran, @benshooter, and @ctolarsson
| Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba plans to reorganize its businesses into six independent entities and devolve operational decisions to each unit's CEO, in its biggest restructuring ever — Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
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@paulpage, @jonrussell, @jchengwsj, @scmpnews, and @byron_wan
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple begins a multi-month roll out of its Apple Pay Later service in the US, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 — Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company's take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business. The company has announced that users can use …
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@markgurman and @markgurman
| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
Europol details how LLMs can be exploited to fuel fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism, and claims people are already using ChatGPT to carry out illegal activities — There is no honor among chatbots — Criminals are already using ChatGPT to commit crimes, Europol said in a Monday report …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Meta plans to reduce the bonus multiplier from 85% to 65% and restricted stock awards for staff who “met most expectations” in the 2023 year-end review — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META -1.43%decrease; red down pointing triangle plans to lower some bonus payouts … | Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
Japan's FTC says it does not expect the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal to stifle competition and closes its review without issuing a cease and desist order — Japan's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it did not expect a merger between Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Activision Blizzard …
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jftc.go.jp, Video Games Chronicle, Thurrott, Game Developer, IGN, Neowin, TrueAchievements, GameSpot, and Destructoid. Tweets:
@tomwarren
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Substack invites its newsletter writers to invest, along with others, aiming to raise $2M; source: the raise is an extension of Substack's $65M Series B in 2021 — Substack, the newsletter platform, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday, allowing writers on the platform to invest in the company.
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On Substack, Newcomer, and TechCrunch
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@sarafischer, @jessicalessin, @hamishmckenzie, @iiiitsandrea, @emilyrnunn, @substackinc, and @binarybits
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon opens Sidewalk to developers, providing SDKs and hardware development kits, and claims over 90% of the US population can now access the public network — It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on.
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The Information, Light Reading, Bloomberg, Amazon, TechCrunch, Wired, GeekWire, gHacks Technology News, and Stacey on IoT
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@amirhaleem, @fredericl, and @gigastacey
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans a major overhaul for “Windows 12” to modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and better security, to better compete with ChromeOS — Windows “CorePC” is the spiritual successor to Windows “Core OS.” — What you need to know| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Security Copilot, a GPT-4-powered assistant to help security professionals with incident investigations, event summaries, reporting, and more — After announcing an AI-powered Copilot assistant for Office apps, Microsoft is now turning its attention to cybersecurity.
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PCWorld, Cybersecurity Dive, VentureBeat, ZDNet, CNBC, Wired, BigTechWire, TechPowerUp, and OnMSFT.com
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@marypcbuk and @tomwarren
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google and ADT debut ADT Self Setup, a SimpliSafe-like security system that ties in with nearly all Nest products and also offers its own sensors, keypad, more — Nearly three years after the two companies first announced a partnership, we're finally seeing Google and ADT debut the product that makes it worth it.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: Microsoft-owned GitHub lays off its entire engineering team in India, eliminating 100+ jobs, as part of a ~10% cut announced in February — GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India in an unusual move as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts …
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Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, OnMSFT.com, Tech in Asia, Inc42 Media, and TechCircle
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Google asks a US judge to dismiss a DOJ suit alleging it illegally abused its ad dominance, arguing the government had excluded rivals while defining the market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google asked a US judge to dismiss the government's case against its dominance in the digital advertising market.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is near a deal with cloud providers OVHcloud, Aruba, Danish Cloud Community to suspend their antitrust complaints to the European Commission — Microsoft Corp. is close to a settlement with a trio of cloud providers to suspend their antitrust complaints to the European Commission …
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Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and Financial Times
| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Discounting the short-term risks of AI, from phishing to propaganda, simply because artificial superintelligence is not here yet will leave society ill-prepared — Superintelligence may or may not be imminent. But there's a lot to be worried about, either way. — Is AI going to kill us all?| Wall Street Journal: |
Citizen Lab: Russia's PROTEI is selling internet censorship software to an Iranian telco, allowing monitoring and interception of all Iranians' communications — Tehran is receiving advanced surveillance software after providing drones for Ukraine battlefield — How We Know Russia Is Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine
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@ksadjadpour
| Rest of World: |
A look at Meta's “spirit of the policy” exception that lets the company break its moderation rules in conflict zones and crises; critics want more transparency — An Oversight Board case from Sri Lanka shows the power of Facebook's “spirit of the policy” exception
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@hkanji, @restofworld, and @decka227
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer plan to step down as CEO on April 17 and president on June 30; ex-Amazon executive David Risher is set to be CEO — - Lyft's cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will step back from their day-to-day roles as CEO and president, respectively.
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Lyft, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, WRAL TechWire, Tech Startups, and MarketWatch
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@johnzimmer, @lyft, and @logangreen
| Politico: |
Documents and sources: Belgian intelligence puts Huawei's Brussels lobbying office on its watchlist to determine if it has direct ties to China's government — Senior Huawei lobbyists in Brussels are under the microscope of the country's state security. — Belgium's intelligence service …
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Huawei
| Stratechery: |
With the launch of plugins, ChatGPT has become an aggregator that puts OpenAI on a path to becoming the next major consumer tech platform — Yesterday's episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering. You can listen at the above link …
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