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Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15 — Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th … | Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: |
Documents: Twitter has a list of ~35 accounts which it monitors and offers increased visibility to, including AOC, Biden, Marc Andreessen, Musk, and @catturd2 — Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron? — Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under … | CFTC: |
The CFTC sues Binance, CEO CZ, and a former chief compliance officer, calling the company's compliance efforts “a sham” and its structure “intentionally opaque” — Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has filed … | Binance Blog: |
Binance CEO CZ says CFTC's complaint contains “incomplete recitation of facts” and Binance does not agree with “characterization of many of the issues alleged” — Today, the CFTC filed an unexpected and disappointing civil complaint, despite our working cooperatively with the CFTC for over two years.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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Apple debuts iOS 16.4 with 21 new emoji, Safari push notifications for web apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, Crash Detection tweaks, and more — Apple today released iOS 16.4, the fourth major update to the iOS 16 operating system that initially came out last September. iOS 16.4 comes … | Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs an EO limiting US agencies' use of hacking tools from companies that are linked to human rights abuses or are deemed to pose national security risks — Officials say at least 50 U.S. personnel overseas had been compromised by commercial spyware| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M MAUs in January 2022, and the rebuilt Teams rolling out to Windows' Public Preview program is twice as fast — Teams, Microsoft's Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Many of the top VPN services and apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices while disguising their ownership, like ties to China — SAN FRANCISCO — As Congress weighs an unprecedented ban of the wildly popular Chinese-owned TikTok over supposed security concerns … | Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer plan to step down as CEO on April 17 and president on June 30; ex-Amazon executive David Risher is set to be CEO — - Lyft's cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will step back from their day-to-day roles as CEO and president, respectively.| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
A look at the non-consensual deepfake porn economy, with video sites easily accessible via top Google search results and some accepting Visa and Mastercard — The nonconsensual deepfake economy has remained largely out of sight, but it's easily accessible and some creators can accept major credit cards.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney eliminates its metaverse unit, cutting ~50 jobs, and ceases work on an Amazon Prime-like program integrating Disney+ and other Disney platforms — The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees — Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant with features to generate whiteboards from text prompts, recap meetings, summarize threads, and more — Zoom has become the latest productivity app to expand its use of artificial intelligence. In a blog post published on Monday … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snap's head of growth and previously longtime product head Jacob Andreou is leaving the company in May after eight years to join Greylock as a general partner — Snap's head of growth and previously longtime product head Jacob Andreou is leaving the social media company after eight years to join Greylock as a general partner.| Rest of World: |
A look at Meta's “spirit of the policy” exception that lets the company break its moderation rules in conflict zones and crises; critics want more transparency — An Oversight Board case from Sri Lanka shows the power of Facebook's “spirit of the policy” exception| Scott Stein / CNET: |
An interview with Roblox Studio Head Stefano Corazza on Roblox's new AI tools, generative AI's impact on AR/VR, building a more contextual moderation, and more — Two new creative tools are the start of possibly a lot more. — The world's biggest metaverse may, arguably, be Roblox.| Wall Street Journal: |
Uber Eats is removing 5K virtual brands to declutter the app and introducing new guidelines to stop restaurants from listing multiple brands with the same menu — Company plans to stop allowing restaurants to list multiple brands with the same menu — Delivery-Only Ghost Kitchens Are Reshaping the Restaurant Industry| Katie Haun / Wall Street Journal: |
Regulators are choking the crypto industry in the US, but major policy decisions should be made by Congress and state legislatures, not by unelected officials — The effort would stifle American innovation and competition—and that seems to be the objective. — WSJ Opinion: Congress Hammers TikTok| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Google asks a US judge to dismiss a DOJ suit alleging it illegally abused its ad dominance, arguing the government had excluded rivals while defining the market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google asked a US judge to dismiss the government's case against its dominance in the digital advertising market.
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