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Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 in one-on-one chats, including of a car hitting a child riding a bike — 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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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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An interview with Sundar Pichai on adding conversational AI to Search, why chatbots are not a threat to the Search ads business, the efficiency drive, and more — ‘More work left to do’ in efficiency drive, chief executive says — Google plans to add conversational artificial-intelligence features …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Substack writers are getting a pop-up saying Twitter “unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets”, a day after Substack unveiled its Twitter-like Notes — 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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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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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to stop personal loan Android apps from accessing sensitive user data like photos, videos, and contacts from May 31, to counter predatory behavior — Google plans to restrict apps that offer loan to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos and contacts …
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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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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.| The Block: |
OPNX, an exchange from 3AC founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davie for trading bankruptcy claims, had just $13.64 in volume in its first 24 hours; OPNX's FLEX drops 27%+ — - OPNX did not start off with a bang. — The exchange's token, FLEX, is down 27%, trading at $1.95.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube adds a Podcasts tab to channel pages globally on its website and mobile apps, showing playlists that creators have marked as podcasts — While we're still waiting for podcasts to widely roll out (in the US) to YouTube Music, YouTube has added a “Podcasts” tab to channel pages.| Andy Bell: |
A Mastodon user since 2018 details issues with the service despite decentralization's promise, like few Twitter friends, little diversity, and tone policing — I first joined Mastodon in 2018 (even though my old profile says 2016?), so I'd say I've seen a lot of its evolution.
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
macOS users find a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper shipped with macOS Mojave or newer, as a sample document for a hidden “Virtual Scanner II” app — While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped …
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| Masha Borak / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at how invading Ukraine supercharged the decline of Russia's struggling tech sector, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation — Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family's belongings, canceled the lease …
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