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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve — Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve …
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@broderick, @ohnoshetwitnt, @airlineflyer, @carnage4life, @tprstly, and @mahemoff
| Washington Post: |
On Bluesky, Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk's leadership of Twitter, saying “it all went south” and Musk should have paid the $1B breakup fee to ditch the deal — The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site
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@Sarahp@mastodon.social, @brianhough@mastodon.social, @davidgerard@circumstances.run, @atomicpoet@mastodon.social, @paul@tapbots.social, and @fraying@xoxo.zone
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@mattbinder, @livemint, @mazmhussain, @iethics, @prasanto, @shaft, @grrlscientist, @will_decotiis, @iethics, @chargrille, @comixace, @cultexpert, @jayrosen_nyu, @benedictevans, @thetimes, @carnage4life, @davetroy, @davetroy, @evasteslasplaid, @goldman, @carnage4life, @danprimack, @carlquintanilla, @goldman, @riptari, @techinsider, @faizsays, @banquodyar, @mcwm, @benjamingoggin, @sarahfrier, @snurb_dot_info, and @willoremus
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will reintroduce widgets in watchOS 10 as a central part of Watch UI, a combination of old Glances and the style of widgets launched in iOS 14 — Apple is set to give its smartwatch a big software overhaul with watchOS 10, once again making widgets a core part of the device.
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@twostraws and @parkerortolani
| Nidhi Subbaraman / Wall Street Journal: |
Some US hospitals test if GPT-3 can cut the time staff spend replying to online queries; a study claims the first ChatGPT version replied better than doctors — Pilot program aims to see if AI will cut time that medical staff spend replying to online inquiries
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk claims that Twitter plans to let media publishers charge users on a per-article basis, with one click, starting in May 2023 — Rolling out next month, this platform will allow media publishers to charge users on a per article basis with one click. This enables users who would not sign up for a monthly subscription to pay a higher per article price for when they want to read an occasional article.... https://twitter.com/...
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@josephpolitano, @ryanatdust2, @electroniceggs, @jakehaleee, @aphelelejody, @idvck, @plentyofalcoves, @plalor, @apagut, @strobist, @jsblokland, @arctechinc, @whereisdaz, @deanrosario, @apagut, @cherijacobus, @assliken, @zaleskiluke, @catale7a, @decodingfoxnews, @icodrops, @campster, @givenality, @paulconro, @beirutspring, @electionlegal, @juddlegum, @mahirzeynalov, @mysk_co, @wwwojtekk, @mikeisaac, @seyitaylor, @stevanzetti, @benedictevans, @ericbahn, @ezralevant, @mcwm, @prestonjbyrne, @kattenbarge, @jamesrbuk, @boltyboy, @brianmbunde, @mattnavarra, @nikkimcr, @realtombohn, @davidclinchnews, @iamasarch, @martinsfp, @philduan, @taylorlorenz, @bmeiselas, @bmeiselas, @chaddepue, @choisungho, @maggielmcg, @paultassi, @wholemarsblog, @sullycnbc, @royprice, @t0nyyates, @truedevonthomps, @nipseyhoussle, and @arrington
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Sources describe how Meta managers built up “kingdoms” as headcount doubled, and how layoffs led to falling morale and lower confidence in Zuckerberg — Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust of his workforce
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@goldman, @rohunjauhar, @dcemerald, @altcap, @drbenahmad, @sarthakgh, @washingtonpost, @hzhu_, and @producercities
| Financial Times: |
Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents — Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet| New York Times: |
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing screenwriters and actors seek limits on the use of AI-produced material — As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.
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@jeffjarvis, @noamscheiber, @bostonvoiceguy, @jackarking, @j_g_allen, and @noamscheiber
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient — - Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter. — Since ex-Oracle exec Thomas …
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@sarbjeetjohal, @jordannovet, and @coreydu
| Reuters: |
Arm confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO; sources: Arm seeks to raise between $8B-$10B on the Nasdaq, which is expected to be 2023's largest IPO — SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) chip maker Arm Ltd has filed with regulators confidentially for a U.S. stock market listing …
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Bloomberg, Arm Holdings, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Neowin, and Bloomberg
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit — GPT4Free uses other sites' connections to OpenAI. — Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4 …
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TechCrunch, xtekky on GitHub, and Simon Willison's Weblog
| BBC: |
Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's “commitment to collect minimal data” — Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.
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