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Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off over the weekend, including Twitter's product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper — Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter's forthcoming payments platform.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Some AI companies are hiring “prompt engineers”, who create and refine text prompts for chatbots to understand the AI systems' flaws and coax optimal results — When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Inside Apple Exploratory Design Group, which works on a glucose monitor, other advanced tech, and was behind some of the chip and battery tech in iPhones, Macs — Apple has a secret team working to bring noninvasive glucose monitoring to its smartwatch, but that's not all it's pursuing.
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Sources: Dish Network has been hit by a cyberattack “by an outside bad actor” and the company is working with an external vendor to resolve the issue — American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Editors at some literary magazines say they are getting overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions, potentially crowding out genuine submissions from newer writers — A short story titled “The Last Hope” first hit Sheila Williams' desk in early January.
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| Molly White: |
The recovery of ~120K stolen ether by Jump and Oasis demonstrates the centralization of DeFi enabled by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts — Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Q&A with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson about inventing the metaverse concept, his blockchain startup Lamina1, not using ChatGPT to help write novels, and more — Neal Stephenson's science-fiction writing has predicted (and inspired) innovations from cryptocurrency to Alexa.
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| Kate Lindsay / The Verge: |
As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators online are sometimes being asked to prove that they're human — Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day, however, a different conversation was going down.
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| Ranjan Roy / Margins: |
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital — Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household. For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22 and claims users will be able to replace its battery in around five minutes and screen in ~20 minutes with an iFixit kit — HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen, charging port …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased — ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing — Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns …
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| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board after the startup offered a “pay to play” deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round — Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals
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