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| Paul Glynn / BBC: |
Twitter changes its label on the main BBC account from “Government Funded Media” to “Publicly funded media”, after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate — Twitter has changed a label on the main BBC account, saying it is “publicly-funded” instead of …
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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly break even”, grew agitated over misinformation and hate speech questions, which he avoided, and more — The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC
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| New York Times: |
NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent — The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
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@npr, @oliverdarcy, @elonmusk, @gbrumfiel, @kevincollier, @itswolfgangruth, @mikeisaac, @davidcorndc, @timcast, @scottdetrow, @keithboykin, @davidsirota, @aniceburrito, @tweetsbyparker, @nerdjpg, @pt, @esqueer_, @jaycaspiankang, @rudygiuliani, @adamweinstein, @davidmackau, @mfcannon, @edgeofsports, @_cingraham, @phil_lewis_, @jbenton, and @chrisgorham
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The stocks of Apple suppliers Cirrus Logic and AAC fall 12%+ and 14%+, respectively, after Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models won't have solid-state buttons — - Shares of Cirrus Logic fell after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the next iPhone wouldn't feature expanded use of Cirrus' technology … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR — LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday.
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@chrismessina, @dwhate, and @tomwarren
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Warner Bros. Discovery officially announces Max as the new name of its flagship streaming service, launching in the US on May 23 with HBO and Discovery+ content — It's not HBO Max — soon it's just going to be Max. … The company announced the name change at a press event Wednesday …
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| New York Times: |
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's “year of efficiency”, Meta's layoffs, absentee leadership, and the big metaverse bet have devastated employee morale — Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs visited Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar in recent weeks to woo sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch — Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple Music, and other services to block developers training AI bots from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs — Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group …
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its instruction-following LLM released two weeks ago, with a dataset of 15K+ records generated by its staff — Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599, solid 1440p performance, and DLSS 3, but 12GB of VRAM and poor 4K gaming performance — The RTX 4070 is the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet, with solid 1440p performance.
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@techjournalist and @tomwarren
| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
PitchBook: VC investment from 2020 to 2022 grew 278% to $5.4B in Miami, 231% to $10.2B in Chicago, 123% to $3.8B in Denver, and 19% to $74.9B in Silicon Valley — Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.
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@danielledigest and @peterhotez
| Wall Street Journal: |
A US jury finds the former CEO, CFO, and president of drug marketing startup Outcome Health guilty of running a ~$1B scheme that defrauded clients and investors — Verdict caps fall of startup's executive team led by Rishi Shah, who could face years in prison
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@rolfewinkler, @michaelmiraflor, and @bobkocher
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Intel's Foundry Services unit partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm's designs access to Intel's A18 process to make their chips — Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd …
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@intelnews, @pgelsinger, @arm, @benbajarin, and @patrickmoorhead
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users' ages and get a parent's consent for users under 18 — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed a sweeping bill imposing a minimum age limit for social media usage …
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@rebeccamkern, @b_fung, @josielenorakuar, @alibreland, and @b_fung
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Video game illustrators in China say they are losing their jobs to AI image generators, which some employers encourage the artists to use to boost productivity — “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
NYC-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service startup that aims to make economic data more accessible, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake — Cybersyn, a New York-based company offering data-as-a-service for enterprises, today emerged from stealth with $62.9 million in Series A funding.
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Cybersyn, Towards Data Science, Tech Startups, and Reuters
| Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: |
Labor consultants say US companies, responding to labor shortages and rising wages, are outsourcing jobs overseas, expanding on the pandemic remote work wave — Companies respond to labor shortages and rising wages by moving some positions abroad, labor consultants say
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@folletto@mastodon.social. Tweets:
@tomgara, @stefanfschubert, @travelinganna, @nsmolenski, @aaronwall, @lbacaj, @gergelyorosz, @dimartinobooth, and @bowtiedbull
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky finds that malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2,000 to $20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975 — Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
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@securelist, @kaspersky, @kaspersky, @e_kaspersky, and @adam_k_levin
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM explores selling its weather unit in a deal that could be valued at $1B+; IBM reportedly paid $2B+ for The Weather Company's digital assets in 2015 — Weather.com owner could fetch more than $1 billion in a sale — International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a sale … | Financial Times: |
Filings: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the Chinese company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022 — Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A profile of Andy Hunter and his e-commerce platform Bookshop.org, which helps indie booksellers set up a digital storefront instead of selling through Amazon — Andy Hunter's ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit. Now he's on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out.
Tweets:
@jurbed, @_zeets, @knibbs, and @mariskreizman
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day in Windows' Common Log File System and seven RCE vulnerabilities rated Critical — Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho SalesIQ turns 10: Transforming customer experiences since 2014 — October marked a remarkable milestone for Zoho SalesIQ—our 10th anniversary. What began in 2014 as a simple live chat tool has evolved …
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