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Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 in one-on-one chats, including of a car hitting a child riding a bike — Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Sundar Pichai on adding conversational AI to Search, why chatbots are not a threat to the Search ads business, the efficiency drive, and more — ‘More work left to do’ in efficiency drive, chief executive says — Google plans to add conversational artificial-intelligence features …
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| Lance Whitney / ZDNet: |
Microsoft adds three Bing features to its SwiftKey keyboard beta for Android: web search results, a tone option in which AI rewrites text, and the AI chatbot — Android users who want to tap into some AI as they type on their phones can now do so with help from Microsoft.
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission cancels the license of Binance Australia Derivatives, which must close all derivatives positions by April 21 — The exchange will close all of its customers' open derivatives positions by April 21. The Australian Securities …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to stop personal loan Android apps from accessing sensitive user data like photos, videos, and contacts from May 31, to counter predatory behavior — Google plans to restrict apps that offer loan to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos and contacts … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| The Block: |
OPNX, an exchange from 3AC founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davie for trading bankruptcy claims, had just $13.64 in volume in its first 24 hours; OPNX's FLEX drops 27%+ — - OPNX did not start off with a bang. — The exchange's token, FLEX, is down 27%, trading at $1.95.
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
macOS users find a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper shipped with macOS Mojave or newer, as a sample document for a hidden “Virtual Scanner II” app — While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped …
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| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC funding fell 53% YoY from $162B in Q1 2022 to $76B in Q1 2023, including OpenAI's reported $10B and Stripe's $6.5B; $39.2B went to late stage startups — Venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace in the first quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Influencers, small businesses, and others say Meta gutting its customer service teams has left them with nobody to call to handle scammers and technical issues — - Meta's two rounds of layoffs are affecting the company's already poor customer service for users, influencers, communities and businesses.| Washington Post: |
Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor — The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
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| Andy Bell: |
A Mastodon user since 2018 details issues with the service despite decentralization's promise, like few Twitter friends, little diversity, and tone policing — I first joined Mastodon in 2018 (even though my old profile says 2016?), so I'd say I've seen a lot of its evolution.
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@jperlow@journa.host, @chopaganda@shakedown.social, @mull@mas.to, @davidbisset@phpc.social, @musictraveler@mastodon.online, @andy@bell.bz, @evan@cosocial.ca, @reselsnark@mastodon.social, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations — After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.
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@carnage4life, @sidhubaba, @aggichristiane, @benoitberthelot, and @techwontsaveus
| Financial Times: |
Sensor Tower: US advertising on TikTok grew by 11% in March 2023 despite the threat of a ban, with Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon, and Apple among the top spenders — Digital advertising on the Chinese-owned video app grew by 11% in March — Advertisers are increasing their spending on TikTok … | Jay Caspian Kang / New Yorker: |
Utah's bills restricting kids' social media use have galling civil liberties concerns and hazy enforcement plans, and will likely face constitutional challenges — Most people seem to agree that something should be done to protect kids from what sure looks like an addictive product.
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@carnage4life, @robyncaplan, @newblackman, @varun_jain, @jithinraj, @efranz13, @mzinshteyn, @mepaynl, @jaycaspiankang, @katelyn_csulb, @jaycaspiankang, and @jaycaspiankang
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube adds a Podcasts tab to channel pages globally on its website and mobile apps, showing playlists that creators have marked as podcasts — While we're still waiting for podcasts to widely roll out (in the US) to YouTube Music, YouTube has added a “Podcasts” tab to channel pages.| Masha Borak / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at how invading Ukraine supercharged the decline of Russia's struggling tech sector, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation — Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family's belongings, canceled the lease …
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@mashaborak, @phuenermund, and @eileenguo
| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung signs a multi-year IP licensing extension with AMD, bringing AMD Radeon's “console-level graphics and optimized power consumption” to more Exynos SoCs — Samsung said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on their licensing agreement which gives …
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Samsung Newsroom, The Register, Ars Technica, PCMag, Android Authority, Notebookcheck.net, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, HotHardware, PhoneArena, Liliputing, ChinaTechNews.com, and Sammy Fans. Tweets:
@stshank
| Semafor: |
Tests show that Twitter stopped showing “Stay informed” labels, added in February 2022 to flag tweets linking to Russia, China, and other state-controlled media — Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets …
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WRAL TechWire and USA Today
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@tomgrundy, @paulachertok, @chuckrossdc, @donmoyn, @urocklive1, @sawyerhackett, @niketa, @lmatsakis, @davidclinchnews, and @semafor
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@elonmusk, @davidgura, @lourdesgnavarro, @paleofuture, @dkthomp, @senatormenendez, @maustermuhle, @isalara, @katanders, @kaivanshroff, @defensebaron, @maxwelltani, @digiphile, @petestrzok, @maxblumenthal, @jeffbradynews, @davidrlurie, @abbydphillip, @kevincollier, @rmac18, @anthony, @lourdesgnavarro, @dfriedman33, @donmoyn, @ichbinilya, @stphnfwlr, @cszabla, @donmoyn, @chenweihua, @melissakchan, @paleofuture, @alx, @stillgray, and @paleofuture
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