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Google posts an unlisted video ad featuring high-res images of the Pixel Fold, expected to be announced at I/O, showing the hinge, a darker color, and more — Ahead of the announcement at I/O 2023 tomorrow, Google has released an ad that features NBA stars with the Pixel Fold.
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| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Twitter lets users reply directly to any DM with a threaded message and react to messages with a wider range of emojis — Twitter has released two new updates for DMs, which have been in the works for a few months, but are now getting a full launch in the app.
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
The US says the FBI disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage operation by inspecting FSB's Snake malware and decrypting and decoding its communications — A law enforcement effort dubbed “Medusa” targeted malware deployed by Moscow's Federal Security Service, officials said Tuesday.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 16.5 beta mentions new Beats Studio Pro, which a source says come in four colors with a Transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, and better ANC — Earlier this year, 9to5Mac revealed that Apple has been working on new Beats Studio Buds+ with a custom Beats chip.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots — Anthropic is a bit of an unknown quantity in the AI world. Founded by former OpenAI employees and keen to present itself …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
The American Psychological Association issues an advisory on social media use by adolescents, saying social networks are “not inherently beneficial or harmful” — One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set guidelines designed to protect children …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, pleads guilty for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts and other crimes — PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O'Connor, a UK citizen connected to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting many high-profile accounts …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads” — It's often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI's ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there's some truth to that.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jump Crypto and Jane Street are pulling back from US crypto trading over regulatory uncertainty; Jump is expanding globally while Jane scales back — Jane Street Group and Jump Crypto — two of the world's top market-making firms — are pulling back from trading digital assets …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the revamped Rooms feature, flexible work, making principle decisions, the future of AI, inspiration from Apple, and more — Airbnb is revamping its Rooms feature while eyeing AI and betting on work from anywhere. — Brian Chesky, the co-founder …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub's push protection feature, which automatically blocks the leak of sensitive data like API keys and access tokens, is now free for all public repositories — GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a mass shooting in Texas a “psyop”, remarking himself the case was “very strange” and “gets weirder by the moment” — Musk has a history of engaging with right-wing conspiracies, and his reaction to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas continues the trend.
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Uber launches flight bookings on its UK app in partnership with travel booking company Hopper as part of its efforts to become a travel “super app” — Ride-booking giant expands offering after rolling out train, coach and Eurostar ticket tool — Uber has launched flight bookings … | Washington Post: |
In a Twitter video, Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his Fox show on the social network; Elon Musk says Twitter did not sign a deal “of any kind whatsoever” — The former Fox News host tweeted a video saying he's moving his show to the social media site.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU draft proposal: non-EU cloud providers seeking an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data must do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company — Amazon (AMZN.O), Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Microsoft (MSFT.O) and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking …
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
An investigation finds Google Maps isn't proactively deleting location data consistently when people visit abortion clinics, a year after Google said it would — Our investigation finds Google still retains location data about users who visit clinics, hospitals and other ‘particularly personal’ locations …
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| Nadia Nooreyezdan / Rest of World: |
“Religious” chatbots, based on the Bhagavad Gita, emerge in India, with millions using them, some answering ~50K questions per day and others condoning violence — Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script. — • NEW DELHI, INDIA
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| Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: |
EA reports Q4 revenue up 2.7% YoY to $1.87B, a $12M net loss, down from a $225M net profit YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.95B, and FIFA net books up 31% YoY — But the video game company swung to a net loss of $12 million, against a year-earlier net profit of $225 million.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
UVeye, which uses computer vision and AI for vehicle inspections, raised a $100M Series D led by Hanaco VC, a source says at an ~$800M valuation — UVeye's automated vehicle inspection technology may have started out as a system to detect security threats, but the six-year-old Israeli startup …
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Chinese DRAM chipmaker ChangXin plans a Shanghai IPO, sources say after receiving assurances over exemptions from US export controls for its equipment — ChangXin Memory Technologies to raise funds for production expansion following assurance on American equipment supplies| Randall Chase / Associated Press: |
A US judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against Block over its 2021 Tidal acquisition, saying the company was “free to make a terrible business decision” — A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition …
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| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify to Congress for the first time on May 16 over AI safeguards alongside IBM VP Christina Montgomery and professor Gary Marcus — Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief, will appear for the first time as AI scrutiny soars in Washington
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