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February 18, 2023, 6:25 AM

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; non-Blue users can use an authenticator app or physical security key  —  In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic  —  Microsoft says it's implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails multiple times for users.
John Herrman / New York Magazine:
The depictions of various interactions with Bing's AI show that the chatbot is doing what it was trained to do, albeit more broadly than Microsoft would prefer  —  In his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed …
Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Cam Thompson / CoinDesk:
OpenSea briefly removes marketplace fees to compete with no-fee marketplace Blur, which topped OpenSea in daily trading volume on February 15 for the first time  —  The top NFT marketplace's policy shift stems from competition with popular zero-fee marketplace Blur.
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Amazon tells corporate staff to return to the office “at least three days per week”, starting on May 1, after previously leaving the decision to team leaders  —  Amazon wants its corporate and tech employees back in the office at least three days per week, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to workers on Friday.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
GoDaddy discovered a multiyear security breach in early December 2022 in which unknown attackers stole some source code and installed malware on its servers  —  Web hosting giant GoDaddy says they suffered a breach where unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware …
Caitlin Long:
Custodia Bank CEO Caitlin Long says she warned law enforcement of crypto frauds beforehand and blames regulators for “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”  —  Before 1940, investing in mutual funds was like wading into a cesspool.  The same is true today of crypto.
Kate Clark / The Information:
Stripe's investor pitch deck says the startup needs $4B by the end of 2024 to cover a tax withholding bill when modifying employee stock grants before its IPO  —  Stripe is trying to raise a huge sum of money from investors, so it has tried to craft a compelling pitch: The payments giant …
The Block:
Sources: Jump is the unnamed “US trading firm” that the SEC said helped support the TerraUSD stablecoin in May 2021; the SEC has not accused Jump of wrongdoing  —  Published 1 hour and 25 minutes earlier on  — Jump is the unidentified “U.S. trading firm” …
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