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| Victor Swezey / The Daily Beast: |
Twitter appears to have restored verification checkmarks to many accounts with 1M+ followers, saying they are subscribed to Blue; some deny they paid for Blue — Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform's biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Twitter restores the gold badges of some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay — Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.
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| Mike Pearl / Mashable: |
Some critics of Twitter Blue, including @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say Twitter gave them unwanted Blue checkmarks — If you can't beat 'em verify 'em. … The latest speed bump in the rollout of Twitter's revamped verification policy under new owner Elon Musk is here: Spite checkmarks.
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Apple XR headset's external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple's app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users — Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset's features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product.
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@business, @carnage4life, @waynedahlberg, @jose_cong, @markgurman, @joannastern, and @bryfitz
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners to build a test chip showcasing the capabilities of its designs, its most advanced chipmaking effort yet — Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers
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Reuters, Engadget, DigiTimes, Digit, Neowin, TechPowerUp, Bloomberg, and Slashdot
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| Bloomberg: |
Nielsen: Netflix accounts for between 7% and 8% of TV viewing in the US every month and between 70% to 80% of the top 10 shows in the US every week — Good afternoon from Ojai, California, where I am celebrating my girlfriend's birthday. Lunch was interrupted by huge news …
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@jontypesthings, @benedictevans, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @markets, @lucas_shaw, @tvgrimreaper, @benedictevans, and @lucas_shaw
| Jaron Lanier / New Yorker: |
AI's mythology as tech for creating independent, intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries — There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.
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TechCrunch and Politico
LinkedIn:
Mark Stouse. Tweets:
@newyorker, @carnage4life, @drdrasko, @newyorker, @newyorker, @robinhanson, @nicolasnova, and @econandrew
| Nabiha Syed / The Markup: |
Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more — A conversation with Katherine Forrest — Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere …
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@jon@henshaw.social and @alex@dair-community.social
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@alexhanna, @marika_writes_, @mehtabkn, @mausellmoli, and @stanfordnlp
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which feature primates in similar poses to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violate Yuga Labs' BAYC trademarks — Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps' RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled
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CourtListener.com, CourtListener.com, Decrypt, crypto.news, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, TechnoLlama, and NFT Evening
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Veon Szu Khaw, Daniel Zohny, and Mohamad Syahrul
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@ashkernen, @neermcd, @tfine, @akylles___, @eliana_esq, and @katekittywong
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Hacker group naming schemes, such as Microsoft's new system, are counterproductive for cybersecurity analysis; a government body should set a naming convention — Pumpkin Sandstorm. Spandex Tempest. Charming Kitten. Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?
Mastodon:
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @agreenberg@infosec.exchange
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@zachsdorfman, @cyb3rops, @wired, @vessonsecurity, @erratarob, @howelloneill, and @crispinburke
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Sources: the Biden administration asked South Korea to urge Samsung and SK Hynix not to fill any market gap in China if Beijing bans Micron from selling chips — White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing
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Reuters, Bloomberg, and TechPowerUp
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@j_laurenceson, @financialtimes, and @dalperovitch
| Roman Feeser / CBS News: |
A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app launched in 2014 that can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or by song — Scientific evidence suggests dinosaurs met their extinction through asteroid impact. Today, if a species goes extinct, chances we as humans had something to do with it.
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