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April 29, 2023, 2:40 PM

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Washington Post:
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Six months since Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, a brief overview of Twitter alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve  —  Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems …
Reuters:
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/...
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is backing 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit that Craig Wright filed to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own  —  It's not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned  —  A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims …
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Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
A WSJ columnist used Synthesia, ElevenLabs, and ChatGPT to create an AI video clone that could trick her bank's voice biometric system, make a TikTok, and more  —  Our columnist replaced herself with AI voice and video to see how humanlike the tech can be.  The results were eerie.
Reuters:
Sources: Arm has confidentially filed with regulators for a US IPO, seeking to raise between $8B and $10B on the Nasdaq, expected to be the largest IPO in 2023  —  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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