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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Email: Twitter tells advertisers that they must have “a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organizations” to keep running ads — As Twitter's legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network's new paid-for verification system …
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| Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters: |
Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media organizations and journalists, including NPR, BBC, and Xinhua — Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which implies government involvement …
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| Dara Kerr / NPR: |
Sources: Twitter removed “visibility filtering rules”, known as “shadow bans”, for government accounts and state-affiliated media from Russia, China, and Iran — Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier … | The Verge: |
Twitter offered LeBron James a complimentary Blue subscription after he said he wouldn't pay for one; Musk says he's paying for “a few” subscriptions personally — Twitter has started getting rid of legacy blue checks for those who don't pay up. Well, unless you're LeBron James and a couple of other celebrities.
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| Matthew Champion / VICE: |
A fake Twitter account with a Blue checkmark for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces is wrongly claiming RSF leader Hemedti died; RSF's real account lost its checkmark — The fake account with a blue tick wrongly claimed that Hemedti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, had died.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Lyft plans to lay off 1,200+, or 30%+ of its 4,000+ staff, days after its new CEO took over, aiming to cut its costs by 50%; Lyft cut ~700 jobs in 2022 — Latest cuts could impact 30% or more of company's over 4,000 employees — Lyft Inc. plans to cut 1,200 or more jobs …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google gives Bard the ability to generate, debug, and explain code in 20+ languages, including C++, JavaScript, and Python, and export code to Google's Colab — Google's Bard chatbot now has the capability to help you with programming tasks. The tech giant said that coding …
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: Apple plans an iPhone journaling app to let users compile their daily activities, in an expansion of the company's mental and physical health efforts — Daily activities log is set to compete with existing software — Apple Inc. is planning an iPhone app to let users compile …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered screenless wearable with a projector to display info, voice and gestures for input, and no phone required — Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, has given a first live demo of its new device …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Mullvad VPN says Swedish police visited its office with a search warrant but left without any customer data after being informed of company's no-logging policy — However, Swedish law enforcement left with nothing after learning Mullvad VPN has a strict no-logging policy when it comes to customer information.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use — If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation. — The AI Drake track …
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Larry Miller. Mastodon:
@hunterwalk@mastodon.cloud, @seanhollister@mastodon.world, @anildash@me.dm, and @andybaio@xoxo.zone
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Amsterdam-based Weaviate, an open-source vector database for startups building generative AI, raised a $50M Series B led by Index Ventures at a $200M valuation — Weaviate, an infrastructure startup whose technology is essential for companies trying to build generative AI tools … Sponsor Posts
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