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April 12, 2023, 4:00 PM

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Paul Glynn / BBC:
Twitter changes the label on the main BBC account to “Publicly funded media” from “Government Funded Media”, after the broadcaster called the label inaccurate  —  Twitter has changed a label on the main BBC account, saying it is “publicly-funded” instead of …
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk refuses to answer questions about misinformation and hate speech on Twitter, reflects on six months running the company, and more  —  The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC  —  SAN FRANCISCO …
New York Times:
NPR “will no longer be active on Twitter” after the social network took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent  —  The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
The stocks of Apple suppliers Cirrus Logic and AAC fall 12%+ and 14%+, respectively, after Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models won't have solid-state buttons  —  - Shares of Cirrus Logic fell after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the next iPhone wouldn't feature expanded use of Cirrus' technology …
New York Times:
Sources say concerns over Mark Zuckerberg's efficiency drive, layoffs, Meta's absentee leadership, and focus on the metaverse have devastated employee morale  —  Workers at Facebook's parent have been increasingly alarmed by job cuts and the company's direction.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery officially announces Max as the new name of its flagship streamer, with content from HBO and Discovery+, launching in the US on May 23  —  It's not HBO Max — soon it's just going to be Max. … The company announced the name change at a press event Wednesday …
Financial Times:
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch  —  Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn partners with CLEAR to help US users verify their identity for free, via a government ID and phone number or via company email  —  LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday.  Unlike with Twitter and Meta …
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple, and other services to block developers training AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs  —  Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material  —  Universal Music Group …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Intel's Foundry Services unit partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm's designs access to Intel's A18 process to make their chips  —  Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd …
Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its instruction-following LLM released two weeks ago, with a dataset of 15K+ records generated by its staff  —  Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Kaspersky finds that malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2,000 to $20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975  —  Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
Danielle Abril / Washington Post:
PitchBook: in 2022, Silicon Valley startups raised $74.9B, followed by NYC's $29.5B; Miami grew 278% from 2020-2022 to $5.39B  —  Layoffs, remote work and pandemic-era changes are reshaping where workers live and tech gets made.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — As a computer science student in the Midwest …
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Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
Labor consultants say US companies, responding to labor shortages and rising wages, are outsourcing jobs overseas, expanding on the pandemic remote work wave  —  Companies respond to labor shortages and rising wages by moving some positions abroad, labor consultants say
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Video game illustrators in China say they are losing their jobs to AI image generators, which some employers encourage the artists to use to boost productivity  —  “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination.  Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day in Windows' Common Log File System and seven RCE vulnerabilities rated Critical  —  Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws.
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Q&A with Alondra Nelson, the former deputy director of Biden's OSTP who led the White House's AI Bill of Rights effort, on the AI policy challenge and more  —  I'm Ezra Klein.  This is “The Ezra Klein Show.”  —  [MUSIC PLAYING]  —  It would be easy, listening to the discourse about A.I. …
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