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May 10, 2023, 8:35 AM

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
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.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
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 …
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 …
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.
Washington Post:
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.
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.
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 …
Scott J Shapiro / The Guardian:
A profile of Dark Avenger, a pseudonymous PC virus writer from Bulgaria who gained notoriety in the 1990s after the country became known as the “virus factory”  —  Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc.

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