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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple schedules WWDC 2023 for June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event with a June 5 keynote, where iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS 14 are expected — Apple today announced that its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 — Publisher of ‘Madden NFL’ and other videogame series is also making office-space reductions — White-Collar Recession: Why Job Cuts Are Hitting Professional Workers
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Microsoft says it is exploring placing ads in Bing Chat and share the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response — It's the moment we've all been waiting for: ads are coming to Bing's AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi …
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| Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: |
Docs: Binance's CEO and other executives hid the company's China ties for years, including an office used until 2019, despite saying Binance left China in 2017 — Company documents show crypto exchange relied on country long after it said it had left in 2017
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Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried is paying his mounting legal fees from a $10M+ tax-free gift he gave his father with money borrowed from Alameda in 2021 — While still CEO of now-collapsed FTX, Bankman-Fried transferred millions of dollars to his father. Some of those funds have since been used …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran — Google is launching a new ad transparency center that will let users search for verified advertisers and their campaigns across … | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded — Disney and Microsoft both closed projects tied to the digital realm this month — Watch: What's the Future of the Metaverse?
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How NetEase and Activision's 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China's tech crackdown, as filings show the deal was worth ~$750M in annual revenue — Activision Blizzard and NetEase could not agree on a new deal to distribute video games in China, cutting millions of players from the games in January.
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble — OpenAI's success in overtaking Google with an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has achieved what seemed impossible in the past …
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As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about potential abuses, disinformation, and hallucination — Microsoft, Amazon and Google among those to cut ‘responsible AI’ teams as part of broader reductions
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| Justin Ling / Wired: |
Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys — Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.| James Reddick / The Record: |
The FDA says approval for medical devices now requires meeting certain cybersecurity standards issued in the omnibus spending bill signed in December 2022 — The Food and Drug Administration affirmed Wednesday that medical device manufacturers must now prove their products meet certain …
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Goldman Sachs research finds generative AI could increase annual global GDP by 7% over a 10-year period and expose 300M full-time jobs to automation globally — Technology could boost global GDP by 7% but also risks creating ‘significant disruption’ — The latest breakthroughs …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US sends $25M to Costa Rica for Conti ransomware recovery and gave $25M last month to help Albania recover from a ransomware attack allegedly caused by Iran — The U.S. government is sending $25 million to the government of Costa Rica to help the country recover from a devastating ransomware attack …
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Court records and messages from alleged hackers reveal a massive hacking campaign targeting thousands of environmental activists, dating back to at least 2017 — Charity of Rockefeller heirs among groups targeted by hackers; oil giant not accused of wrongdoing
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find a flaw in Wi-Fi protocol IEEE 802.11 that could be exploited to inject malicious content into TCP packets and more, impacting routers and OSes — Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter details new API access tiers: Free with 1.5K tweets/month at app level, Basic for $100/month, and Enterprise; old APIs will stop working in 30 days — Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API. The company had previously delayed …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The SEC sues shuttered crypto exchange Beaxy and its execs for allegedly not registering and Beaxy Digital's founder for raising $8M via unregistered token BXY — - The SEC brought charges against crypto platform Beaxy on Wednesday for allegedly not registering as an exchange, broker or a clearing agency.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on open-source governance, business models, rejecting VC firms, running instances, ActivityPub, content moderation, and more — CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network. … Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Fetch.ai, which develops infrastructure to help “build, deploy, and connect smart agents to automate Web3 systems”, raised $40M from DWF Labs — AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Netflix's iOS app code suggests the company may expand its video game service to TV sets for the first time, using phones as controllers — Netflix Inc. is working to bring its nascent video-game service to television sets for the first time, moving beyond smartphones and tablets in a sign of its growing ambitions.Sponsor Posts
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