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| The Verge: |
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 …
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Mastodon:
@malwaretech@infosec.exchange, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @paul@tapbots.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @joshuatopolsky@mastodon …, @joeross@mastodon.social, @pollak@mstdn.social, @andrew@esq.social, @jerry@infosec.exchange, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, @malwaretech@infosec.exchange, @willoremus@mastodon.social, @lolennui@mstdn.social, @ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social, and @danyork@mastodon.social
Tweets:
@elonmusk, @mikescollins, @eve6, @buccocapital, @dieworkwear, @noahgarfinkel, @bestofdyingtwit, @fiercemilder, @pixelatedboat, @espiers, @emmakennedy, @0xgaut, @benjysarlin, @semaforben, @mnateshyamalan, @buccocapital, @astroehlein, @jeffjarvis, @bmkibler, @saruman1, @chrismessina, @tomwarren, @kris_willis, @epro, @jamesrbuk, @nycsouthpaw, @jonlionfineart2, @seyitaylor, @pitdesi, @ultimashadowx, @internethippo, @tszzl, @jarvis, @daveleeft, @edzitron, @matthew_d_green, @seyitaylor, @skillupyt, @carnage4life, @rleighturner, @modeledbehavior, @heydudeimadam, @ashleymayer, @willoremus, @oneunderscore__, @franklinleonard, @drewb, @rjcc, @bradfross, @angryblacklady, @mollywood, @willoremus, @jonfavs, @selviano, @carnage4life, @daveleeft, and @turtlesongfarm
| 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 …
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Mastodon:
@mmasnick@mastodon.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @Jbat@mstdn.media, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @sharearea@mastodon.online, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @hunterwalk@mastodon.cloud, and @mmasnick@mastodon.social
Tweets:
@zoeschiffer, @mehdirhasan, @islivingston, @thelincoln, @stokel, @notcapnamerica, @boringstein, @timodc, @vanessa_abee, @priyamvadagopal, @scottjohnson, @teri_kanefield, @katie_roof, @edburmila, @banikarim, @silvermanjacob, @carnage4life, @wongmjane, @adhutchinson, @caseynewton, @hunterw, @lorakolodny, @joshtpm, @trashtaeks, @edzitron, @daveleeft, @oalexanderdk, @kurtwagner8, @jangles, @johnpaczkowski, @chrisfralic, and @mollymckew
| 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.
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LinkedIn:
David Briggs. Tweets:
@apes_prologue, @cz_binance, @ldrogen, @mrdiamondhandz1, @adamscochran, @benshooter, @ctolarsson, @rugdocio, @belisarius2020, and @pythianism
| 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 …
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LinkedIn:
Adrian Pape. Tweets:
@cz_binance, @tier10k, @iampaulgrewal, @adamscochran, @web3isgreat, @kadhim, @tier10k, @web3isgreat, @peterlbrandt, @tree_of_alpha, @jesse_hynes, @web3isgreat, @opinion, @cz_binance, @aaberwick, @tree_of_alpha, @darealmilkbagz, @imnotthewolf, @web3isgreat, @ragingventures, @kimdotcom, @nikhileshde, and @autismcapital
| 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.
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TechCrunch, Insider, CoinDesk, Barron's Online, Decrypt, Metaverse Post, Forbes, CNBC, Cointelegraph, gHacks Technology News, The Verge, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, TechCircle, and Watcher Guru
LinkedIn:
Theo Priestley, Chris Keller, and Charlie Fink
| Reuters: |
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers and prosecutors agree on new bail terms, including giving SBF a phone without internet and a monitored laptop with limited functions — Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried said they reached an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on Monday on revised bail conditions …
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CoinDesk, New York Post, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, and Watcher Guru
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@yoda, @mikeinberkeley, @jeffnolan, @icodrops, and @thestalwart
| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
Europol details how LLMs can be exploited to fuel fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism, and claims people are already using ChatGPT to carry out illegal activities — There is no honor among chatbots — Criminals are already using ChatGPT to commit crimes, Europol said in a Monday report …
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Europol, Silicon Republic, HackRead, ComputerWeekly.com, and Europol
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@garymarcus, @sebastienmoras, and @garymarcus
| Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba plans to reorganize its businesses into six independent entities and devolve operational decisions to each unit's CEO, in its biggest restructuring ever — Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
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Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, Financial Times, The Information, Alizila, Nikkei Asia, Variety, New York Times, Pandaily, and CNBC
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@byron_wan, @onlyyoontv, @jchengwsj, @paulpage, @jonrussell, and @scmpnews
| 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.
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Wall Street Journal, Lyft, Tech Startups, WRAL TechWire, MarketWatch, San Francisco Business Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Tech Xplore
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@patphelan, @johnzimmer, @lyft, @logangreen, @eringriffith, and @emilmichael
| 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 … | 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.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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 …
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Apple Support, WebKit, Emojipedia, MacRumors, MacStories, SecurityWeek, gHacks Technology News, and iThinkDifferent
Mastodon:
@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net. Tweets:
@tomayac, @jensimmons, @openwebadvocacy, @openwebadvocacy, @natebirdman, @firt, @saeeddicaprio, @jonoringer, and @jh3yy
| 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
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@decka227, @hkanji, @decka227, @restofworld, @mvzelenks, and @m_karanicolas
| 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.
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Source, Microsoft Design, Microsoft Tech Community, The Verge, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, OnMSFT.com, and The Register
LinkedIn:
Sumi Singh, Melissa Rustemeyer, Carlos Aguilar Mares, and Darren Cosker
Tweets:
@jeffteper, @nikitonsky, @dmitriid, @dotmorten, @tomwarren, and @maryjofoley
| BBC: |
The UK cancels plans to launch an NFT, proposed in 2022 by Rishi Sunak in a bid to make the UK a crypto hub, and says it will keep the proposal “under review” — Plans for a government backed non-fungible token (NFT) produced by the Royal Mint have been dropped, the Treasury has announced.
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The Guardian, Engadget, The Register, The Block, Crypto Daily, Cointelegraph, Micky, Forbes, and Neowin. Tweets:
@whatleydude
| 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.| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
Filing: a federal judge grants the US government's request to temporarily halt Voyager's bankruptcy plan, putting its proposed ~$1B sale to Binance.US on hold — A federal judge granted the US government's request to temporarily halt Voyager Digital Ltd.'s bankruptcy plan …
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CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Micky, Coinspeaker, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoPotato. Tweets:
@holo__of
| 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
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The White House, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Washington Post, New York Times, Metacurity, Reuters, CNN, The Register, Gizmodo, The Hacker News, Axios, and SiliconANGLE
LinkedIn:
Dustin Volz. Tweets:
@jsrailton, @jsrailton, @davidakaye, @jsrailton, @repjasoncrow, @jsrailton, @wcathcart, @digiphile, @nicoleperlroth, @lorenzofb, @artemisseaford, @nicoleperlroth, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @fpwellman, @runasand, @dnvolz, and @dnvolz
| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Meta plans to reduce the bonus multiplier from 85% to 65% and restricted stock awards for staff who “met most expectations” in the 2023 year-end review — Meta Platforms adjusts performance review process, saying it is ‘optimizing’ for year ahead| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: Microsoft-owned GitHub lays off its entire engineering team in India, eliminating 100+ jobs, as part of a ~10% cut announced in February — GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India in an unusual move as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts …
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Techlusive, Moneycontrol, and TechCircle
Mastodon:
@carnage4life@mas.to. Tweets:
@gergelyorosz, @carnage4life, @gergelyorosz, and @gergelyorosz
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