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Starlink's near total control of satellite internet is raising global alarms; 4,500+ Starlink satellites are in orbit, accounting for 50%+ of active satellites — The tech billionaire has become the dominant power in satellite internet technology. The ways he is wielding that influence are raising global alarms.
More: The Verge, CNET, CircleID, and Insider
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A profile of Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, considered by lawmakers, CEOs, and activists as an essential guide for what's happening in tech — Mike Masnick, who founded Techdirt in 1998, writes for an influential audience of lawmakers, C.E.O.s and activists.
More: The Verge and Pixel Envy
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| Washington Post: |
Adam Mosseri and current and former employees recount how Threads came to life with a small team focused on shipping a bare-bones app on a breakneck schedule — A company in crisis went back to basics to deliver a viral hit. But can Adam Mosseri's bare-bones Twitter clone reinvigorate an aging tech giant?
More: Ars Technica, Livemint, The Verge, Insider, Tubefilter, and New York Post
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into Apple's plans for the new iPhones and Watches coming this fall, including iPhone 15 Pro with 1.5mm bezels, a step towards a borderless iPhone — Apple is just weeks away from introducing the iPhone 15 and next-generation watches. The new lineup will mark another stepping stone toward …
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Threads: @wongmjane. Twitter: @parkerortolani, @gregorymcfadden, @ashleevance, @stevemoser, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, r/hardware, and MacRumors Forums
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Sources: the Biden admin is looking for malware it believes China hid inside critical infrastructure, mainly aimed to disrupt the military if a conflict emerges — American intelligence officials believe the malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations …
More: Cryptopolitan and New York Post
Mastodon: @Weld@infosec.exchange. Twitter: @jonlemire, @elisabethbraw, @matthew_d_green, @farrellpatrickj, @jasoncolavito, @edwardstrngr, @ericgeller, @repmarymiller, @punk6529, and @kimzetter
LinkedIn: Roman Quaedvlieg and Robert Metzger
Forums: r/LessCredibleDefence, r/AirForce, and r/politics
| Allison Parshall / Quanta Magazine: |
An interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a Microsoft cryptographer who won the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing, on cryptography, “post-quantum” security, and more — Yael Tauman Kalai's breakthroughs secure the digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future.
Mastodon: @nancybaym@aoir.social. Twitter: @boazbaraktcs, @andrewf11526574, @quantamagazine, @quantamagazine, and @quantamagazine
| Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at C2PA, a standard that relies on cryptography to encode provenance information of media content, started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic — An internet protocol called C2PA adds a “nutrition label” to images, video, and audio. — The White House wants big AI companies …
Threads: @carnage4life and @carnage4life
| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter/X reinstates Kanye West's account, suspended in December 2022, and says he won't be eligible to monetize it, and ads won't appear next to his posts — West won't be eligible to monetize his account, and ads won't appear next to his posts — X, the social-media platform formerly known …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions — Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.
More: DeepMind Blog, The Keyword, Ars Technica, Forbes, PCMag, HotHardware, RT-2 on GitHub, The Decoder, CNET, Business Today, Cryptopolitan, The Economic Times, Politico, BigTechWire, ZDNet, Neowin, and TechCrunch
Twitter: @alex, @kimzetter, @imordatch, @lesaunh, @ajddavison, @xiao_ted, @hausman_k, @chelseabfinn, @svlevine, @demishassabis, @hausman_k, @kevinroose, @kboughida, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, @glenngabe, and @googledeepmind. LinkedIn: Nemunas A.
Forums: r/singularity and r/artificial
| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal Meta emails: Facebook removed content about COVID-19 under pressure from the Biden administration, including posts claiming the virus was man-made — Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing pandemic to man-made virus
More: JONATHAN TURLEY, CNN, Washington Examiner, Telegraph, The Times, National Review, Fox News, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Benzinga, Reason, The Messenger, The Daily Beast, New York Post, The Hill, Insider, and Reclaim The Net
Twitter: @randpaul, @jim_jordan, @stephenm, @pepesgrandma, @repbarrymoore, @mirandadevine, @judiciarygop, @markchangizi, @ggreenwald, @joohnchoe, @jim_jordan, @brithume, @thackerpd, @jamesctobias, @rondesantis, @thackerpd, and @jim_jordan. Forums: r/CoronavirusUS
| BBC: |
An investigation citing hundreds of Turkish people claims Android's earthquake warning system failed to send alerts for the 7.8-magnitude quake on February 6 — Google's earthquake warning system failed to get to many Turkish residents before February's deadly tremor, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.
More: 9to5Google, The Korea Herald, Engadget, Wccftech, Android Authority, Android Police, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, and Livemint
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| Stephanie Hirschmiller / Decrypt: |
The British Museum partners with Ethereum-based metaverse game The Sandbox to create NFTs showing the museum's collections and offer “new immersive experiences” — The cultural institution plans to establish an interactive space within the Ethereum-based world, as well as offer up NFT collectibles.
More: The Sandbox, Trend Micro, crypto.news, CryptoGlobe, and nft now
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Twitter: @thesandboxgame, @lacollectionoff, and @borgetsebastien
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