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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is exploring placing ads in Bing Chat and sharing the ad revenue with partners whose content contributed to the chat response — It was inevitable, but Microsoft has confirmed that more ads are coming to Bing's AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi …
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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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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers say hackers have compromised the 3CX VoIP IPBX desktop app, used by 600K+ companies and 12M+ daily users, in an ongoing supply chain attack — A digitally signed and trojanized version of the 3CX Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) desktop client is reportedly being used to target …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta will let users opt out of some highly personalized ads, using an online form that Meta will review and approve — Facebook, Instagram parent hopes plans to alter a privacy approach that would limit the impact from EU orders
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is considering a company-wide political ads ban in Europe, concerned its platforms will be unable to comply with forthcoming online campaign laws — Facebook parent concerned how it will police social networks in wake of new EU regulations — Meta executives are discussing … | Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group details two limited but highly targeted spyware campaigns using several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS, and Chrome — Two targeted spyware campaigns involving several zero-day exploits for Android, iOS and mobile versions of the Chrome browser were unmasked …
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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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| 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 within 30 days — Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API.
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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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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange OKX says it has identified $157M in digital assets belonging to FTX and Alameda Research, and is turning them over to the bankruptcy estate — FTX bankruptcy lawyers say that $694 million in liquid assets have been identified before OKX's announcement.
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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.
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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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| 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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| New York Times: |
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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| 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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| 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.
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Bug-eyed and Shameless and Gizmodo
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@ann_lynzee, @egavactip, @doctor_cupcakes, and @jtemperton
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
FreedomGPT, a chatbot from Austin VC firm Age of AI, is free of ChatGPT's safety filters and ethical guardrails, and praises Hitler, uses the N-word, and more — FreedomGPT spews out responses sure to offend both the left and the right. Its makers say that is the point.| Financial Times: |
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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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
An AI-focused tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying the rollout of its AI tools has been “biased, deceptive, and a risk to public safety” — An artificial intelligence-focused tech ethics group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI … Sponsor Posts
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