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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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?
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| Roman Feeser / CBS News: |
A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, launched in 2014, which can identify 6,000+ bird species on six continents by a picture or 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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| 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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@ashkernen, @neermcd, @tfine, @akylles___, @eliana_esq, and @katekittywong
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
A look at “the flattening”: tech companies laying off middle managers to boost efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom — Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap
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@andrewtghill, @andre_spicer, @adsinuk, and @patrickmcgee_
| 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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