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April 20, 2023, 1:40 PM
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Matt Binder / Mashable:
Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25; users won't be able to access or manage their Twitter accounts via Microsoft's tool  —  Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API.  —  Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
After news broke that Microsoft Advertising was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” for training “illegally using Twitter data”  —  Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants …
Bloomberg:
The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, with rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024  —  European lawmakers on Thursday gave their final blessing to an ambitious law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry.
Financial Times:
Internal slides: in the coming months, Google plans to let advertisers supply “creative” content for generative AI to “remix” for more sophisticated campaigns  —  Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products  —  Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules  —  It sounded like a dream partnership …
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes  —  The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Meta's Oversight Board supports Meta's content moderation actions during the pandemic but asks Meta to assess its impact on public health and human rights  —  Meta's Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions …
Anthony Vargas / AdExchanger:
Montreal-based Optable, which provides a data collaboration and clean room service, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $23.6M  —  Clean rooms are all the rage right now - and investors are noticing.  —  On Tuesday, data collaboration and clean room platform Optable announced $20 million …
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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
NCC Group measured a record 459 ransomware attacks in March 2023, up 91% MoM and 62% YoY, saying the surge is likely due to exploits of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT  —  March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Coinbase says the company got a license to operate in Bermuda; source: Coinbase plans to launch an offshore derivatives exchange in Bermuda as soon as next week  —  Coinbase has received a license to operate in the off-shore haven of Bermuda, signaling that the company is doubling-down on plans …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky for Android launches on the Play Store, after the decentralized Twitter alternative debuted on iOS in February 2023, but the service remains invite-only  —  Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized Twitter alternative, now has an Android app.  The launch follows the release …
Financial Times:
A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs upon which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more  —  New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn.  But there are privacy and data protection concerns
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
CoreWeave, which offers 12+ SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B led by Magnetar at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M  —  CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues …
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Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

More News

Matt Novak / Forbes:
Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Seagate agrees to settle with the US Department of Commerce for $300M over shipping $1.1B+ worth of hard drives to Huawei, a violation of US export control laws
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.4% YoY to $14.25B, vs. $14.35B est., net income up 26% YoY to $927M, and software revenue up 2.6% YoY to $5.92B, vs. $5.83B est.

Earlier Picks

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft starts naming threat actor groups after weather events, like typhoon, sandstorm, and blizzard; each name represents a nation state or a motivation
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Atlassian launches Atlassian Intelligence, an AI assistant that uses the company's LLMs and OpenAI's, to offer AI features for Confluence and Jira in the cloud
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The US, the UK, and Cisco warn Russian hacking group APT28 is deploying custom malware on Cisco IOS routers, allowing unauthenticated access to the devices
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Snap expands My AI to all users for free and says the chatbot can now be added to group chats and recommend AR filters or places, and will soon generate photos
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Stability AI debuts StableLM, its first suite of instruction fine-tuned LLMs, in alpha, starting with 3B and 7B parameters, with 15B to 65B versions to follow
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The UK CMA opens a consultation on Google's proposal to let developers use alternative payment methods for IAP and reduce its cut to settle an antitrust probe
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