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May 11, 2023, 2:15 PM
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be Blue subscribers, group messages are not supported, and message metadata is not encrypted — There are still some major limitations to the feature. — Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature.
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| Reuters: |
EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition use in public and predictive policing tools, and set transparency rules on generative AI; details must be finalized — European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos says a known cybercrime group accessed its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but failed to breach its internal network — Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted …
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| Brady Snyder / XDA Developers: |
Google launches a Labs webpage where users can join waitlists to test the company's early feature and product ideas, including Search and Workspace AI tools — Google is using artificial intelligence to improve its existing products, and you can sign up to try them in Labs now. Here's how to get started.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out updates to tackle spam calls, particularly prevalent in India right now, using its AI and ML systems, hoping to reduce the rate by 50%+ — WhatsApp has announced that it has introduced back-end updates to tackle spam calls, which are particularly prevalent in India right now.| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a record ~$32B full fiscal year loss; investments in the year fell to ~$3B — SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks … | Ted Chiang / New Yorker: |
Similar to McKinsey and other consulting firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism” — As it's currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A look at Tel Aviv-based Rayzone, whose surveillance system Echo, sold to governments globally, harvests and repurposes ad data to track people via their phones — The innovation at the heart of the advertising technology industry is automated auctions to trade real-time data about mobile phone users …
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood reports $38M in Q1 2023 crypto trading revenue, down 30% YoY and down 1% QoQ, and ~$11.5B worth of crypto in assets under custody, up 36% from Q4 2022 — The trading platform also reported holding around $11.5 billion worth of crypto in assets under custody, an increase of 36% versus the fourth quarter.| Alvise Armellini / Reuters: |
Italy's AGCM opens an investigation into Apple over exempting its own apps from ATT, a day after the EU confirmed sending Apple Pay questionnaires to retailers — Italy's antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into U.S. technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft releases 49 security fixes for Windows, Outlook, and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild — Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software … | New York Times: |
Taiwan's chip sector, built by TSMC's skilled workers, risks losing its global dominance due to a demographic crisis, demanding work culture, and competing jobs — Taiwan's world-dominating microchip sector was built by TSMC's skilled employees. But a demographic crisis … | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting the claim that his data theft made the IoT manufacturer safer — An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera's Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim … | Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: |
JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$35B, beating analyst estimates, and a ~$903M net income, compared to a ~$555M net loss in Q1 2022 — China's e-commerce giant JD.com Inc (9618.HK), said on Thursday its chief executive Xu Lei will step down, with the company's chief financial officer taking on the role.
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Revolut says CFO Mikko Salovaara plans to leave “for personal reasons”, two months after CEO James Radford left, as the company waits for a UK banking license — Exits of Mikko Salovaara and James Radford follow last year's exodus of executives
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| Vansh Agarwal / Reuters: |
Sonos stock falls 20%+ after reporting Q2 revenue down 24% YoY to $304.2M and forecasts annual revenue between $1.63B and $1.68B, down from $1.7B to $1.8B — Sonos Inc (SONO.O) was set to shed more than a fifth of its market valuation on Thursday after a revenue forecast cut fueled worries …
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Disney reports Q2 Disney+ subscribers down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. ~163M est, its second straight quarterly drop, ESPN+ up 2% QoQ to 25.3M, and Hulu flat at 48.2M — On the bright side, the Mouse House also managed to narrow its streaming business losses by $400 million, down 26% year over year.| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Tech companies increasingly hire in South and Central America because remote workers there often accept lower pay than in the US but have the same time zones — Pandemic-era labor shortages made it hard for Austin-based Fetch Package Inc. to fill positions in the US.| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Twitter appears to have disabled autocomplete in its search bar after users pointed out that it was recommending gory videos of animal abuse and war footage — Searching for dog and cat videos returned horrifying results. — Matthew Gault — Twitter has disabled autocomplete … | Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX's companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda for partnership taxes — The largest of the claims includes a $20.4 billion claim against Alameda Research LLC, which details nearly $20 billion in unpaid partnership taxes.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Review of the $700 Asus ROG Ally: fast performance and smooth variable refresh screen, but Windows is hard to use on a handheld and the UI has major glitches — A big step forward for Windows handhelds — but is Windows the way forward at all? … Windows handheld gaming PCs existed before the Deck …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Brisbane-based edtech startup Go1 acquires Berlin-based Blinkist, which offers 15-minute summaries of non-fiction books, and raised $30M from Insight Partners — After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition … Sponsor Posts
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