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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
A researcher finds Verification settings in Twitter's app showing that the company may be working on letting Blue subscribers hide their blue checkmark — Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription.
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Engadget, PCWorld, BGR, CNN, PhoneArena, Fast Company, KnowTechie, MakeUseOf, Android Headlines, Neowin, Social Media Today, Techlusive, and Watcher Guru
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023 — The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion deal, announced on Thursday that starting April 1 …
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@verified, @elonmusk, @digiphile, @mattbinder, @aoc, @evacide, @jangles, @maxberger, @daviddoel, @dylanmallman, @wolfiesmom, @benedictevans, @zaleskiluke, @jessphoenix2018, @golub, @jacksfilms, @drewisgooden, @binarybits, @reignofapril, @digiphile, @jbarro, @carnage4life, @froomkin, @thedanjurgens, @ryback, @danprimack, @nickkristof, @zaackhunt, @gehrigdieter, @davidhogg111, @gaetaamy, @tarahaelle, @muellershewrote, @joshconstine, @scottmonty, @jonalba, @meakoopa, @petersterne, @mattyglesias, @mediaevan, @kevinmkruse, @eve6, @chrismessina, and @leftatlondon
| TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Twitter Blue had 385K+ subscribers on iOS and Android and made $11M on mobile in its first three months, including ~$8M from 246K US subscribers — Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able …
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| The Verge: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The UK CMA narrows its probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard bid, saying new evidence “provisionally alleviates” concerns about UK game console supply — The UK's antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today.
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: in 2018, Elon Musk said OpenAI lagged Google and cut ties after his offer to run it was rejected; Altman took no equity in OpenAI's for-profit entity — After three years, Elon Musk was ready to give up on the artificial intelligence research firm he helped found, OpenAI.
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| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
France plans to use large-scale AI-based video cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, potentially becoming the first EU country to legalize AI surveillance — PARIS — France's AI-powered array of surveillance cameras for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics cleared a final legislative hurdle on Thursday.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
OpenAI blames a Redis client open-source library bug for the March 20 ChatGPT outage and leak that exposed personal info of ~1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers — OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.
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OpenAI, Engadget, PCMag, SlashGear, Twitter Blue subscribers …, Mashable, and CoinGape
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@openai, @caseyjohnellis, @arvidkahl, and @openai
| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
Nasdaq expects its custody services for digital assets to launch in Q2 2023, starting with bitcoin and ether, after announcing the project in September 2022 — Nasdaq Inc. expects its custody services for digital assets to launch by the end of the second quarter as it joins a growing pool …
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Watcher Guru, Fortune, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, BTC Times, Inside Bitcoins, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Trustnodes, CryptoGlobe, CoinDesk, Finbold, CoinJournal, and CryptoSlate
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@thinkingcrypto1 and @wublockchain
| Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune: |
Utah Governor Spencer Cox signs two bills regulating social media, requiring all users verify their age and parents give permission before minors open accounts — Gov. Spencer Cox, who signed the bills on Thursday, said the state is prepared for a legal fight over the tech company regulations.
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| Reuters: |
ChatGPT set off a VC rush to invest in generative AI startups; PitchBook says AI startup investments grew from $1.5B in 2020 to $5.9B+ since the start of 2022 — In December and January, several venture capitalists from the U.S. and Britain raced to Paris to vie for a stake … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tether estimates the company will make $700M in profit in Q1, taking its excess reserves to back its USDT stablecoin to $1.66B, above $1B for the first time — - Cryptocurrency firm Tether estimates it will make $700 million profit in the March quarter, taking its total excess reserves to over $1 billion …
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Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, and Watcher Guru
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@mdudas, @gaborgurbacs, and @arjunkharpal
| Nathan Grayson / Washington Post: |
Current and former Twitch staff describe how the service lost its way: out-of-touch leaders, losing big creators, cost cutting, many irrelevant ads, and more — The platform's recent moves have confused and upset creators, fans and staff alike — For Twitch, the live-streaming platform watched …
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Game Rant. Tweets:
@vahn16, @mdwasserman, @niemanlab, @washingtonpost, @_zeets, @_anthonynash, and @launcherwp
| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors in New York charge Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon with eight counts, including securities fraud, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was charged with fraud by US prosecutors in New York.
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The Hill, Southern District of New York, Al Jazeera, New York Post, Micky, DL News, TechCrunch, Crowdfund Insider, Cryptonews, CoinGape, CoinDesk, Finextra, and The Register
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@tier10k, @tier10k, @kaileyleinz, @ahcastor, @epro, @poordart, @thecryptosquad_, @ja_brann, @tier10k, @sherlock_hodles, @byzgeneral, @murfski_, and @mdudas
| Bloomberg: |
Shou Chew's answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app — TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew's appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.
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@evacide, @gopmajoritywhip, @tiktokcomms, @rondeibert, @jappleby, @andrewdesiderio, @chrislhayes, @micsolana, @oneunderscore__, @sarafischer, @enbrown, @esqueer_, @ingrahamangle, @shanselman, @danprimack, @oliviasolon, @willoremus, @kellymakena, @businessinsider, @aaronparnas, @aclu, @sarafischer, @peterhamby, @washingtonpost, @drewharwell, @markwarner, @willoremus, @senblumenthal, @enbrown, @evacide, @willoremus, @rihardjarc, @sarthakgh, @matthewstoller, @tiktokcomms, @melissakchan, and @divestech
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