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Substack tells writers Twitter “unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets”; Twitter seems to have disabled likes and RTs for tweets with Substack links — Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site …
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Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 on an internal messaging system, including a child being hit by a car — Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”
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Sources and internal documents: the success of ChatGPT has made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks despite their AI ethics guidelines — Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry's next big thing.| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung plans to cut memory chip production to a “meaningful level” after estimating that its Q1 operating profit fell 95%+ YoY to ~$450M, its worst since 2009 — Samsung Electronics Co. said it is cutting memory chip production after reporting its slimmest profit since …
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| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Bitdefender survey of 400+ IT/security professionals: 42% were told to cover up data breaches that should have been reported, 29.9% admit covering up breaches — In a world where cybercrime is becoming more difficult to prevent, many security leaders are putting pressure on IT professionals to bury the truth.
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The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk” — The department's first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.
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| Lance Whitney / ZDNet: |
Microsoft adds three Bing features to its SwiftKey keyboard beta for Android: web search results, a tone option in which AI rewrites text, and the AI chatbot — Android users who want to tap into some AI as they type on their phones can now do so with help from Microsoft.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Amazon bans the sale of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, after tagging it as a card-skimming device — Amazon has banned the sale of the Flipper Zero portable multi-tool for pen-testers as it no longer allows its sale on the platform after tagging it as a card-skimming device.| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC funding fell 53% YoY from $162B in Q1 2022 to $76B in Q1 2023, including OpenAI's reported $10B and Stripe's $6.5B; $39.2B went to late stage startups — Venture and growth investors in private companies continued to scale back their investment pace in the first quarter of 2023, Crunchbase data shows.
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Colorado-based True Anomaly, which develops software and “autonomous orbital pursuit vehicles” to collect space data, raised $30M including a $17M Series A — As tensions between the United States and China continue to escalate, a new startup has emerged from stealth … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Influencers, small businesses, and others say Meta gutting its customer service teams has left them with nobody to call to handle scammers and technical issues — - Meta's two rounds of layoffs are affecting the company's already poor customer service for users, influencers, communities and businesses.
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission cancels the license of Binance Australia Derivatives, which must close all derivatives positions by April 21 — The exchange will close all of its customers' open derivatives positions by April 21. The Australian Securities …
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