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| Delian Asparouhov / Operators & Delian's Ramblings: |
Despite its limitations, GPT-3, OpenAI's text-generating AI, excels at producing follow-on thoughts to input text, and could thus succeed as a “writing buddy” — OpenAI, an AI research foundation started by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and a few other leaders in ML …
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| Shaun Nichols / The Register: |
Researchers say seven Hong Kong-based “no log” VPNs have left 1TB+ of user logs and personally identifiable info exposed on the internet — Maybe it was the old Lionel Hutz play: 'No-logging VPN? I meant, no! Logging VPN!' — BIO EMAIL TWITTER
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney has dramatically cut ad spending on Facebook and Instagram; Disney was Facebook's top US advertiser for H1 2020, per an estimate — Hundreds of advertisers have paused spending on the social network due to concerns about hate speech, divisive content
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| Toby Helm / The Guardian: |
Sources: UK told Huawei that geopolitics played a part in its 5G ban and gave the impression the decision could be revisited if Trump fails to win a second term — ‘Geopolitical’ factors were behind the move, the company was told, with hints that the decision could be reversed in future| Neil Shah / Counterpoint Research: |
Reliance Jio is laying a strong foundation to become a “Super Operator”, applying a WeChat-like “super-app” approach to its mobile telecom network in India — In the world's second largest mobile market, Reliance Jio, India's leading Communication Service Provider … | Nikhil Basu Trivedi / next big thing: |
A look at the bifurcation of the VC industry between agglomerators, who invest at every stage and across every sector, and specialists, who focus on one — Welcome to issue #10 of next big thing. — On one side of the venture capital industry are the agglomerator firms.
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| Dave Furness / eSellerCafe: |
Amazon warns third party sellers it may separate Fulfillment by Amazon operations in UK from its EU network starting January 1 — Unsurprising for some but surely a shock for others today as Amazon has announced that due to Brexit on the 1st January 2021 the UK's FBA operations will be separated from the rest of Europe.| Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg: |
Trump campaign urges supporters to sign a petition to ban TikTok, saying TikTok has been caught “red handed by monitoring what is on your phone's Clipboard” — - Ads are targeting supporters in battleground election states — Teens on TikTok signed up to Trump rally with no plans to go
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| Niall Firth / MIT Technology Review: |
Critics contend that predictive policing algorithms need to be dismantled due to biased training data, even as advocates say that algorithms can be made fair — Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can't fix them, we should ditch them.
Tweets: @_karenhao, @shaftag, @techreview, and @techreview
| Twitter: |
Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps — As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| South China Morning Post: |
CloudMinds CEO, a Chinese engineer who started the cloud-based robotics company in SV, says he will not consider US listing after sanctions hurt the business — CloudMinds lost almost 75 per cent of orders in the US and cut 80 per cent of its US workforce after Washington imposed sanctions … | Jennifer Miller / New York Times: |
A look at startups that provide end-of-life services, from estate planning to online forums for grieving virtually, amid a surge in interest during the pandemic — The coronavirus pandemic has drawn new business to start-ups that provide end-of-life services, from estate planning to a final tweet.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
CampusLogic, whose SaaS tech is helping simplify student financial aid processes at 750+ colleges and universities, receives $120M investment from Dragoneer — CampusLogic's new $120 million growth investment will help the education technology company expand its student financial success platform.
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CampusLogic, Pulse 2.0, and FinSMEs
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: FTC's antitrust probe of Facebook will probably roll into next year when there may be a new president as FTC looks into its acquisition of Giphy — The agency's handling of the case stands in stark contrast to the antitrust investigation into Google by the Justice Department.
Tweets: @tofdaj, @catschocolates, and @nytimestech
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic — What happens when a kumbaya office culture meets the business realities of a pandemic? — SAN FRANCISCO — On May 5 …
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| Adam Clark Estes / Vox: |
A brief history of video chat, how it has evolved, and how the pandemic has forced big tech to develop new ways to make it feel more like real-life interactions — It looks like we're stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing? — It's well over 100 days into the Covid-19 crisis … Sponsor Posts
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