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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks — Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out; her nomination was stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple's upcoming 15-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro will feature an 8-core M3 chip, the same core count as the M1 and M2 — We've been hearing rumors about a new MacBook Air for a while, but some details about it remain unclear. 9to5Mac has now heard …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2023 with a “limited live audience” for May 10, when Android 14 details, Pixel 7a's debut, and a Pixel Tablet launch date are expected — Following the literal input/output puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2023 is taking place Wednesday, May 10.
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@sundarpichai, @googledevs, and @markgurman
| Brian Fung / CNN: |
US senators unveil the bipartisan RESTRICT Act to let the US ban foreign-linked app and hardware makers the Commerce Department deems a national security risk — A dozen US senators unveiled bipartisan legislation Tuesday expanding President Joe Biden's legal authority to ban TikTok nationwide …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Meta tests returning messaging features to the Facebook app, nearly a decade after moving them to Messenger, hoping to “differentiate” Facebook from TikTok — New York CNN — — Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features …
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Acer confirms that one of its document servers was breached, after a hacker listed 160GB of data for sale allegedly containing confidential documents and files — Electronics giant Acer has confirmed getting hacked after a hacker offered to sell 160 Gb of files allegedly stolen from the company's systems.
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BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, The Register, HackRead, and DataBreaches.net
| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: the FTC demanded Twitter turn over internal messages about Elon Musk, details about layoffs, and the names of journalists with access to company records — Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple announces a yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, 2023's spring color after the “alpine green” option on all iPhone 13 models in 2022, shipping on March 14 — Unlike last year, the new color variant won't be available for the Pro models and will only ship with the base iPhone 14 and the 14 Plus.
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| Harshit Rastogi / Counterpoint Research: |
Apple had eight of the top 10 best-selling smartphones in 2022, led by the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro Max; Samsung's Galaxy A13 was fourth and its A03 was 10th — - Apple captured eight spots in the list of top 10 best-selling smartphones for 2022. — The remaining two spots were taken by Samsung's Galaxy A13 and A03 models.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on rolling out a dedicated video feed, Google and search, moderation, AI, NFTs, growing its 500M+ MAUs, and more — Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline. … Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe how Google stalled the release of a powerful chatbot for years due to the risk AI demos could pose to its reputation and search ads business — Researchers developed a powerful chatbot years before rival ChatGPT went viral. After management stalled its release, they quit.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Meta stands by its AI release strategy after LLaMA, an LLM the company gave to approved organizations and researchers, was leaked as a torrent by a 4chan user — The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society.
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The Guardian, Reuters, CyberScoop, and MobileSyrup
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| CoinDesk: |
A New York bankruptcy judge says Voyager Digital can sell its $1B+ worth of assets to Binance.US, overruling objections by the US SEC and state regulators — The bankruptcy judge in the Voyager Digital case chose to allow the deal with Binance.US over objections from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators.
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Reuters, Bloomberg, Decrypt, Blockworks, The Block, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, and Inside Bitcoins. Tweets:
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators asked Twitter to hire more moderators and fact-checkers over concerns that Twitter aims to use more volunteers and AI to monitor content — Regulators are concerned that platform aims to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to monitor content
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Many VCs question whether the generative AI startups attracting eye-watering valuations will make enough money, fearing a repeat of the crypto investment hype — Silicon Valley VCs fearing a repeat of falling crypto values warn against pouring cash into hype-fuelled start-ups
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CIO.com, Vox, PYMNTS.com, EVCA's Newsletter, Felipe's Substack, and BetaKit
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@dannygroner, @guykawasaki, @stephennellis, @yoda, @mcwm, @shiringhaffary, @jamescurrier, @tim, @adamsinger, @grady_booch, @smdiehl, @davemcclure, and @pt
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Silvergate is in talks with FDIC officials about ways to avoid a shutdown, including lining up crypto-industry investors to help shore up its liquidity — US regulators have been sent to the headquarters of Silvergate Capital Corp., as the troubled crypto-friendly bank looks for a way to stay in business.
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CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Reuters, CoinDesk, and CryptoSlate
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@scottmelker, @napgener, and @caspiancey
| Andrew Marino / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence and producer Giles Martin on the Era 100 and 300 speakers, spatial audio, Atmos, sustainability, the Google lawsuit, and more — They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos' new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it.
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@andrump3, @chriswelch, @chriswelch, @steuph, @sonos, @markgurman, @ow, and @sonos
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy- and speech-protecting service a year after it launched — Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.
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VICE. Mastodon:
@dntlookbehindu@infosec … and @metacurity@infosec.exchange
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@oversecurity, @vice, @buddhistnobody, @anonopsse, @ravibrewster, and @josephfcox
| The Block: |
FTX sues Grayscale, Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein, DCG, and DCG CEO Barry Silbert, citing $1.3B+ in “exorbitant management fees” and hoping to “unlock” $9B+ — - FTX' debtors are suing Grayscale Investment, its owners and its CEO over their handling …
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PR Newswire, Inside Bitcoins, ZyCrypto, and Financial Times
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to retire overlay ads on YouTube videos starting on April 6 to “improve the viewer experience and shift engagement to higher performing ad formats” — YouTube is changing the way some ads are shown on videos very soon with the removal of “Overlay ads” from content starting April 6.| Rest of World: |
A look at the growing social media dubbing industry, which is helping MrBeast and other YouTubers reach global audiences and monetize videos in many languages — MrBeast and PewDiePie are part of a booming business that localizes social media videos for fans around the world.
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@decka227 and @techwontsaveus
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce announces Einstein GPT, bringing OpenAI-based generative AI tools to Customer 360, Tableau, MuleSoft, and Slack using data from its Data Cloud — - Salesforce clients will be able to exchange Slack messages with a ChatGPT chatbot that can show data from Salesforce.
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