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A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted — The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is investigating if Binance was used to let Russians skirt US sanctions, alongside a probe into its alleged use to evade sanctions on Iran — The Justice Department is investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. was used illegally to let Russians skirt US sanctions …
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, incorporating short videos, social media posts, and conversations with AI — Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
An independent researcher's data shows that out of the ~150K Twitter Blue subscribers in November 2022, just ~68,157 were still subscribed on April 30 — The early birds cancel their subscriptions. — Twitter Blue's struggles since its launch nearly six months ago are more severe than previously revealed, new data suggests.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of IEEE's Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, more — “That's always an exciting place to be — a place where nobody's ever been before." — Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence … | Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
An Idaho federal judge dismissed an FTC lawsuit against location data broker Kochava, saying the agency had not provided adequate evidence to show consumer harm — The ruling was a blow to the commission's intensifying efforts to crack down on the sale and use of sensitive personal information.
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Source: Rapid, which runs an API marketplace, laid off 82% of staff in under two weeks, reducing headcount from 230 to 42; the startup was valued at $1B in 2022 — Rapid (previously known as RapidAPI), a startup that built out an API marketplace valued at $1 billion last year … | Lora Kelley / New York Times: |
A profile of Roger Lee, who runs Layoffs.fyi that has catalogued ~450,000 tech job cuts and Comprehensive.io that tracks compensation in tech job postings — Roger Lee has cataloged hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts on his site Layoffs.fyi. He still believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back.
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| Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: |
New York's AG proposes the Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency and Oversight Act, or CRPTO, seeking broader enforcement authority over crypto companies — Proposed legislation would require crypto exchanges to have independent public audits of financial statements, among other new requirements
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Brydge, an iPad, Mac, and Surface accessory maker, is shutting down; sources: Brydge has neither paid its staff salaries nor fulfilled orders since January 2023 — Brydge, a once thriving startup making popular keyboard accessories for iPad, Mac, and Microsoft Surface products, is ceasing operations.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed — Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab.
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Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI — A senior software engineer at Google wrote a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge …
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