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Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark — Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16 — The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary” — Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software …
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| Washington Post: |
Midjourney ends free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral — Midjourney, the year-old firm behind recent fake visuals of Trump and the pope, illustrates the lack …
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal — The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed.
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple's MR headset may not appear at WWDC 2023, as the company pushed back mass production to Q3 amid doubts about the device creating an “iPhone moment” — Apple has again pushed back mass production of its mixed-reality headset and the device may not appear …
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| The Guardian: |
Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more — Documents leaked by whistleblower angry over Ukraine war — Private Moscow consultancy bolstering Russian cyberwarfare
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta plans to let users opt out of some highly personalized ads via an online form that Meta must review and approve — Facebook, Instagram parent hopes plans to alter a privacy approach that would limit the impact from EU orders
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| Financial Times: |
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Social Media Today and The Guardian
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft is exploring new ad experiences in Bing Chat, like citations, and sharing ad revenue with “partners whose content contributed to the chat response” — It was inevitable, but Microsoft has confirmed that more ads are coming to Bing's AI-powered chatbot.
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Shelly Palmer. Tweets:
@debarghya_das, @tomwarren, @fieldproducer, @jesselehrich, @rustybrick, @rustybrick, @debarghya_das, @chombabupe, @rustybrick, @shiraovide, @mark_riedl, @sub8u, and @yoda
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say hackers have compromised the VoIP desktop client of 3CX's Phone System, used by 600K+ companies and 12M+ DAUs, in an ongoing supply chain attack — A digitally signed and trojanized version of the 3CX Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) desktop client is reportedly being used …
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Kyle Hanslovan, Eitan Erez, and Jason Duerden
| Futurism: |
BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment — Earlier this year, when BuzzFeed announced plans to start publishing AI-assisted content, its CEO Jonah Peretti promised the tech would be held to a high standard.
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The Verge, Tech.co, and Nieman Lab
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Avram Piltch. Tweets:
@jon_christian, @maxwelltani, @mckaycoppins, @rosiegray, @resnikoff, @rachelmetz, @rafat, @dcbigjohn, @jbenton, @tomgara, @byrnehobart, @dlberes, @tylercoates, @durvidimel, @jimpethokoukis, @awzurcher, @helenkennedy, and @jeff__benjamin
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Report: Google AI engineer Jacob Devlin quit to join OpenAI in January 2023 after complaining Bard was being trained on ChatGPT data; Google denies the charge — Google's Bard hasn't exactly had an impressive debut — and The Information is reporting that the company is so interested … | Jon Victor / The Information: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
An AI tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying its AI text generation tool rollout has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety” — An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI …
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LinkedIn:
Mike Grandinetti, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, and Oliver Süme
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@ibjiyongi, @davidkersten, @carnage4life, @striphas, @lilianedwards, @jjvincent, and @k8brannen
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group details two “limited and highly targeted” spyware campaigns using several zero-day exploits for Android, iOS, and mobile Chrome — Two targeted spyware campaigns involving several zero-day exploits for Android, iOS and mobile versions of the Chrome browser …
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The Keyword, SC Media, Amnesty International, BleepingComputer, BleepingComputer, CyberScoop, Metacurity, Android Headlines, gHacks Technology News, Security Affairs, TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, HackRead, RestorePrivacy, Infosecurity, Dark Reading, SamMobile, and The Hacker News
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@amnestytech, @chaosupdates, @evacide, @cyberscoopnews, @ryanaraine, @royalhansen, @maddiestone, @binitamshah, and @rondeibert
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Invite-only Twitter alternative T2 plans to let Twitter users who are about to lose their checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its service — With Elon Musk set to pull verification from thousands of users who were verified under the company's previous leadership …
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, MobileSyrup, SlashGear, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found it could have let anyone alter Bing search results and breach Office 365 accounts — A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft's Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results and access … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Helped by his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk surpasses President Obama to become the most followed person on the service with 133,068,709 followers — Elon Musk has dethroned former President Barack Obama as the most followed person on Twitter. As of right now, the billionaire …
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Washington Post, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Variety, Techlusive, and gHacks Technology News
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@wilkos@mastodon.world. Tweets:
@jamespmcleod, @mondaymargiela, @richeydarian, and @pip_net
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Fixie, a cloud service for helping developers integrate any LLM into their applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures — The news: Fixie, a new Seattle-based startup aiming to help companies fuse large language models into their software stack, raised a $17 million seed round.| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Apple wins a US appeal to uphold a patent tribunal's ruling over two of VirnetX's VPN patents that invalidated a $502.8M patent infringement verdict from 2020 — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) convinced a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to uphold a patent tribunal's ruling that could imperil … Sponsor Posts
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