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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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@zoeschiffer, @elonmusk, @teri_kanefield, @tomgara, @evan_greer, @thelincoln, @mehdirhasan, @agoldmund, @stokel, @notcapnamerica, @deray, @boringstein, @timodc, @islivingston, @vanessa_abee, @priyamvadagopal, @scottjohnson, @teri_kanefield, @lastquake, @katie_roof, @edburmila, @banikarim, @silvermanjacob, @carnage4life, @wongmjane, @adhutchinson, @caseynewton, @hunterw, @lorakolodny, and @joshtpm
| 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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@pkreissel@chaos.social, @malwaretech@infosec.exchange, @MikeElgan@mastodon.social, @nicklockwood@mastodon.social, @mimsical@mastodon.social, @TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social, @Jonathanglick@mstdn.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @paul@tapbots.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @joshuatopolsky@mastodon …, @joeross@mastodon.social, @pollak@mstdn.social, @andrew@esq.social, @jerry@infosec.exchange, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, @malwaretech@infosec.exchange, @willoremus@mastodon.social, and @lolennui@mstdn.social
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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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Corey Dehus, Theo Priestley, and Chris Keller
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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| 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, TechCrunch, and Exponential View
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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 …
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| 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, Bloomberg, Light Reading, Wired, TechCrunch, Amazon, GeekWire, Stacey on IoT, and gHacks Technology News
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@amirhaleem and @gigastacey
| 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, GameSpot, and Destructoid
| 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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Security Affairs, Tech Monitor, Forbes, CircleID, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, BGR, HackRead, and ComputerWeekly.com
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@garymarcus, @sebastienmoras, and @garymarcus
| Stratechery: |
Plugins turn ChatGPT into an aggregator, signaling a major shift in ambition that puts OpenAI well on its way 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.
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Livemint, The Information, Forbes, gHacks Technology News, and Vectara
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@rafat and @stratechery
| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Discounting AI's short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves 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?| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google and ADT debut ADT Self Setup, a SimpliSafe-like security system integrated with nearly all Nest products and also offers sensors, a keypad, and 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.| 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.| 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, and TechCircle
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post: |
The CWA files NLRB charges alleging that Apple fired five workers in Kansas City in retaliation for organizing, the first such Apple charges the union has filed — The workers, who were disciplined and fired for attendance-related issues, believe they were let go because of their union organizing| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
In a bid to compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with AI coding company Replit, which will use Google's LLMs for its Ghostwriter product — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit Inc … | Kari McMahon / The Block: |
EigenLabs, working on an ETH “restaking” protocol, raised a $50M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital among investors — - EigenLabs, the team behind restaking protocol EigenLayer, closed its $50 million Series A funding round.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is near a deal with cloud providers OVHcloud, Aruba, and Danish Cloud Community to pull 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Citizen Lab: Russia's PROTEI is selling internet censorship software to Iranian telco Ariantel, for monitoring and intercepting 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
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