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Sources: Twitter engineers built a system to boost Elon Musk's tweets over everyone else's after Musk complained Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet outperformed his — After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden's, Twitter's CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
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Speaking at a conference, Elon Musk says he is “guessing toward the end” of 2023 will be time for a new Twitter CEO as the company will be in “stable condition” — Elon Musk said he may need the rest of this year to put things right at Twitter Inc. before handing off …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon, showing how AI can “hallucinate” to convey emotions, not facts — This was originally published as a Stratechery Update — Look, this is going to sound crazy.
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The Verge, Simon Willison's Weblog, 9to5Google, ZDNet, MobileSyrup, The Verge, BGR, OnMSFT.com, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Futurism, Metaverse Post, Windows Central, and Search Engine Roundtable
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
Some users say the “new Bing” is questioning its existence, outright lying, and responding with “unhinged”, aggressive, and nearly incomprehensible answers — System appears to be suffering a breakdown as it ponders why it has to exist at all — Microsoft is adding Chat GPT tech to Bing
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An in-depth look at how OpenAI's ChatGPT decodes input queries to produce a “reasonable continuation” of the text, the underlying dataset, neural nets, and more — It's Just Adding One Word at a Time — That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially …
Tweets: @stephen_wolfram, @friscojosh, @scobleizer, @krishnanrohit, @chr1sa, and @garystager
| The Guardian: |
An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections — - Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
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| Praveen Seshadri: |
An ex-Google engineer and founder of AppSheet, acquired by Google, reflects on his time at Google, issues with its culture, a lack of urgency and mission, more — What ails Google. And how it can turn things around. … I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded …
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Sources: FTX lawyers and hedge fund Modulo are negotiating the return of Sam Bankman-Fried's $400M investment in Modulo, currently sitting in a JPMorgan account — The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.| Benjamin Robertson / The Block: |
Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius proposes a sale to investment firm NovaWulf, founded in 2021 by Wall Street dealmakers; smaller creditors may regain 70% of funds — - Proposed sale would see smaller creditors get around 70% of their money back — Larger creditors would become shareholders … | Bloomberg: |
ASML reported a breach to authorities after a former employee in China misappropriated proprietary data, resulting in possible export controls violations — ASML Holding NV, a critical cog in the global semiconductor industry, said a former employee in China stole data about its technology …
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Data Center Knowledge, The Register, South China Morning Post, CNBC, Reuters, Silicon Canals, and Financial Times
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Lufthansa returns to normal operations after grounding all flights due to software issues caused by a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables being damaged — Deutsche Lufthansa AG grounded all of its flights on Wednesday after damage to a set of Deutsche Telekom broadband cables caused widespread IT problems.
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Tweets: @lufthansanews, @cyb3rops, @spielewert, @cyb3rops, and @flightradar24
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q4 net bookings up 17% YoY to $899.4M, beating estimates, a record 65M DAUs in January, and estimated bookings rose 19% to 21%; RBLX jumps 25%+ — Roblox Corp. shares surged the most in nine months after the online video game platform reported bookings that beat analysts' estimates …
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Filing: Berkshire Hathaway cut its holdings of TSMC's American depositary shares by 86% last quarter to 8.29M, valued at $617.7M; TSMC's stock drops 3.5%+ — Warren Buffett slashed his holding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. just months after disclosing a major stake …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, DCD, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Patently Apple, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, CNN, Coinspeaker, Quartz, and Latest
Tweets: @schuldensuehner, @unusual_whales, @cfromhertz, @charlotteytyang, @trengriffin, and @dnystedt
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to evaluate Pay Later borrowers based on spending history, the Apple devices they own, whether they applied for an Apple Card, and more — With Apple Inc. pushing into the lending business with a “buy now, pay later” service, the company is laying out rules for how it will approve transactions.
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Cult of Mac, iMore, Apple Must, MacDailyNews, PYMNTS.com, iThinkDifferent, BGR, and Engadget
Tweets: @astaniscia86, @newsynick, and @markgurman
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Superplastic, which creates “synthetic” influencers and other virtual characters, raised $20M led by Amazon's Alexa Fund and plans to work with Amazon Studios — Janky and Guggimon, ‘synthetic’ celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok and Instagram … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Oligo Security, which offers security and observability tools to find and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, raised $28M in seed and Series A — Oligo Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect …
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CSO, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, Forbes, Security Boulevard, and SiliconANGLE
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X75 modem, adding expanded 5G support, carrier aggregation, upgraded software, and more, rolling out in devices in H2 2023 — Qualcomm is warming up for Mobile World Congress by announcing its newest modem: the Snapdragon X75.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Descope raised a $53M seed from Lightspeed, GGV, and others to build a “developer-first” authentication and user management service — Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snap launches ray tracing support for its AR Lens Studio globally, initially partnering with Tiffany & Co to let users try on and purchase bracelets — Snap has introduced ray tracing technology to its AR Lens Studio for developers around the world, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Snap Newsroom, Digital Trends, Techlusive, AR Insider, and TechCircle
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
After requests by regulators, the European Commission will review Adobe's $20B Figma deal, citing antitrust concerns, despite being under its revenue threshold — Adobe Inc.'s proposed $20 billion takeover of design firm Figma Inc. risks a lengthy European Union probe after the bloc's …
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Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, San Francisco Business Journal, Reuters, AppleInsider, and European Commission
Tweets: @eu_competition, @wavesblog, and @mr_james_c
| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Brazilian neobank Nubank reports Q4 revenue up 128% YoY to $1.45B and a $58M net income, up from a $66.1M net loss YoY, saying it ended 2022 with 74.6M users — Nu Holdings Ltd (NUN.MX) reported a surge in fourth-quarter gross profit on Tuesday, as customers flocked to the core lending products offered … | Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to investigate Amazon's proposed $1.7B deal for Roomba-maker iRobot over privacy concerns, sending the company a set of detailed questions — Regulators have privacy concerns over acquisition of iRobot in sign of growing scrutiny of Big Tech dealmaking
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Gizmodo and Yahoo Finance
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 77 security fixes, patching three actively exploited zero-day flaws in Windows and Office, and nine critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's February 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 77 flaws.Sponsor Posts
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