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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted — There are still some major limitations to the feature. — Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature.
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EU lawmakers agree to ban facial recognition in public, limit predictive policing, and impose transparency on generative AI; EU Commission will finalize details — European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT …
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| Brady Snyder / XDA Developers: |
Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google's early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools — Google is using artificial intelligence to improve its existing products, and you can sign up to try them in Labs now. Here's how to get started.| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel Fold with a 120Hz 7.6" main screen, a 5.8" exterior screen, a Tensor G2, and 12GB of RAM, for preorder now and arriving in June — Google's first foldable phone feels like what I always wanted from the Surface Duo to be. — I've been using some version …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos says a known cybercrime group gained access to its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but didn't breach its internal network — Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted …
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B — SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate … | Ted Chiang / New Yorker: |
Similar to McKinsey and other consulting firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism” — As it's currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood reported crypto trading revenue of $38M for Q1 2023, down ~30% YoY and 1% QoQ, and says it has ~$11.5B worth of crypto in assets, up 36% from Q4 2022 — The trading platform also reported holding around $11.5 billion worth of crypto in assets under custody, an increase of 36% versus the fourth quarter.
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Taiwan's chip sector, built by TSMC's skilled workers, risks losing its global dominance due to a demographic crisis, demanding work culture, and competing jobs — Taiwan's world-dominating microchip sector was built by TSMC's skilled employees. But a demographic crisis …
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company plans to add Hulu content to Disney+ by the end of 2023; standalone options for its platforms, including ESPN+, will remain — - Disney+ will add content from Hulu to create a “one-app experience,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said.
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A look at Tel Aviv-based Rayzone, whose surveillance system Echo, sold to governments, exploits ad data to track people via their phones — The innovation at the heart of the advertising technology industry is automated auctions to trade real-time data about mobile phone users …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft released at least 48 security fixes for Windows and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation — Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
JD.com says CEO Xu Lei will step down in June “due to personal reasons”, after one year in the role; CFO Sandy Ran Xu will become the CEO — - JD.com shares rose in pre-market trade in the U.S. on Thursday after it said it swung to profit in the first quarter and announced a management shakeup.
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| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting the claim that his data theft made the IoT manufacturer safer — An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera's Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim … | Alvise Armellini / Reuters: |
Italy's AGCM opens an investigation into Apple over exempting its own apps from ATT, a day after the EU confirmed sending Apple Pay questionnaires to retailers — Italy's antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into U.S. technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an AI-powered “snapshot” that summarizes search results with links to sites “corroborating” the information — Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.
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| Bloomberg: |
Tech companies increasingly hire in South and Central America because remote workers there often accept lower pay than in the US but have the same time zones — Pandemic-era labor shortages made it hard for Austin-based Fetch Package Inc. to fill positions in the US.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer VM powered by Nvidia's H100 GPUs, built to deliver “the highest-performance training for today's ML workloads” — As we've seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it's clear that these models … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a “small experiment” globally that shows a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or consider subscribing to Premium — YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.| Haaretz: |
A profile of Andreas Fink, a Swiss telecom expert whose services let state agencies, like Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge, attack phone networks globally — The international mobile system is exposed and a loophole allows hackers, cybercriminals and states to geolocate targets and even hijack email and web accounts.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Brisbane-based edtech startup Go1 acquires Berlin-based Blinkist, which offers 15-minute summaries of non-fiction books, and raised $30M from Insight Partners — After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition … | Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Microsoft's Trust Code compliance training video series, headed into season seven, that has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers — Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide
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