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February 10, 2023, 3:30 PM

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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft cuts jobs in its Surface, HoloLens, and Xbox units; heavy cuts to the HoloLens hardware team raise questions about the third goggles version  —  Microsoft Corp., implementing the layoff of 10,000 workers announced last month, on Thursday cut jobs in units including Surface devices …
Brian Fung / CNN:
Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say a Twitter API paywall would jeopardize studies of influence campaigns and platform manipulation  —  For years, Twitter, like other social media platforms, has freely given its platform data to independent researchers …
Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company:
Former staff say Twitter needs to update its systems to enact Elon Musk's asks, but the mass layoffs have brought code freezes and vast concurrent code changes  —  Twitter's outage on Wednesday, which saw the site rendered unusable for most users by blocking people from tweeting within the app …
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Researchers: some Reddit usernames and other keywords cause ChatGPT to give bizarre responses, likely due to the web data OpenAI scraped to train its model  —  Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.  —  Chloe Xiang
Michael Wayland / CNBC:
GM signs a long-term deal with GlobalFoundries to establish exclusive production capacity at the chipmaker's New York facility for the automaker's key suppliers  —  - GM has signed a long-term agreement with GlobalFoundries to establish exclusive production capacity of U.S.-produced semiconductor chips …
Ted Chiang / New Yorker:
As ChatGPT and other LLMs repackage info into superficial approximations, like lossy compression for images, the web will become a blurrier version of itself  —  OpenAI's chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes.  Which do we prefer?  —  In 2013, workers at a German …

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