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On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal — The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve — Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 — Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.
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| Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors — Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk claims that Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per-article basis, with one click, starting in May 2023 — Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.... https://twitter.com/...
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources describe how Meta managers built up “kingdoms” as headcount doubled, and how layoffs led to falling morale and lower confidence in Zuckerberg — Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce
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@goldman, @rohunjauhar, @sarthakgh, @altcap, @dcemerald, @drbenahmad, @washingtonpost, @hzhu_, and @producercities
| Financial Times: |
Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents — Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet
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@stevenconlon
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient — - Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter. — Since ex-Oracle exec Thomas …
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| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit — GPT4Free uses other sites' connections to OpenAI. — Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4 …
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TechCrunch, xtekky on GitHub, and Simon Willison's Weblog
| BBC: |
Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's “commitment to collect minimal data” — Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.
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City A.M., The Register, and Light Reading
| Reuters: |
A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram's ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service “is not reasonable” — Brazil's second instance appeals court lifted on Saturday the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram …
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Engadget, Reclaim The Net, ChinaTechNews.com, Associated Press, and Bitcoin News. Tweets:
@smindcrypto
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview — Microsoft Designer, Microsoft's AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.
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Microsoft Designer, ZDNet, Microsoft 365 on YouTube, MakeUseOf, Digit, TechRadar, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Android Authority, Windows Central, Neowin, PCWorld, Thurrott, and WinBuzzer
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Dr. Deepak Panda, Ph.D., Ashish Jaiswal, Karen Diss, Emily Tohir, and Rajat Jain
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