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Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times' main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet's decision not to pay for Blue — The Times and other news organizations say they won't pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.| Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance: |
In a now-deleted tweet, Elon Musk said Twitter would give verified accounts “a few weeks grace” but take away their checkmarks if “they tell they won't pay now” — - The first day of Twitter's previously announced axing of “legacy” verified checks nearly passed without incident.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter updates the description of all blue checkmarks to say “This account is verified because it's subscribed to Twitter Blue or is a legacy verified account” — On Sunday, Twitter did something different: It updated the language in the description of verified users … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
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A16Z openly courts Saudi money; Horowitz compared the US harshly to Saudi Arabia because the US government did little after Andreessen's “time to build” essay — Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains.| CNN: |
Source: soon after Pinduoduo's app updated to remove backdoor exploits, most of the team working on them was moved to work on Temu, which is a top app in the US — It is one of China's most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about everything else under the sun to more than 750 million users a month.| New York Times: |
Sources: in Nov. 2021, five days after Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a front company for the US government licensed NSO's geolocation tool — The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How researchers, including at Meta's AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition — Thought is ever-changing electrical patterns unconnected to individual neurons. Meta is working on a system to read your mind.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm — As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses … | Matt Binder / Mashable: |
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In a referendum 89% of Parisians voted against keeping shared e-scooters in the city; Lime, Dott, and Tier will have to pull their fleets out by September 1 — In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets.| New York Times: |
An investigation details how a Georgia man was wrongfully arrested based on a bad facial recognition match and other tech meant to make policing more effective — Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail … | Washington Post: |
Sources: SVB bought long-term assets that paid more interest based on a misplaced profit-driven strategy, falling out of compliance with its internal risk model — Focused on profits, leaders made decisions that foreshadowed the bank's surprise failure — Flush with cash from a booming … | Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, telling users to withdraw funds by April 30, but plans to continue to operate Bittrex Global — The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States.| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance generated $80B+ in 2022 revenue, up 30%+ YoY, after growing 70% between 2020 and 2021; TikTok represented ~12% of ByteDance's total revenue — ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, generated more than $80 billion in annual revenue last year, up more than 30% …
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