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May 18, 2023, 5:15 PM

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Brian Fung / CNN:
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh  —  Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI's Whisper  —  App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time.  —  On Thursday, OpenAI released …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources detail Apple's headset ahead of WWDC: shifting the vision from eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook's product noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more  —  Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category …
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Binance Australia can no longer offer Australian dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, its “payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions  —  The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …
Huw Jones / Reuters:
A UK Treasury Committee crypto report recommends that the government regulate trading and investment in unbacked crypto as gambling and not a financial service  —  Bitcoin , ether and other cryptocurrencies should be regulated as gambling given the significant risks they pose to consumers …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and its work on two chips: MTIA for accelerating AI training, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, for video processing needs  —  At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads …
New York Times:
Meta's unusual move to open source LLaMA stands out from its rivals' approach, driven by the belief that sharing its work will help spread its influence in AI  —  The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots.  Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple plans to get directly involved in microLED display production to reduce its reliance on Samsung, after spending $1B+ on R&D in nearly 10 years  —  iPhone maker makes billion-dollar bet on micro-LED screens  —  Apple is taking a hands-on approach to production of micro-LED screens …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users and migrate them to Privacy Sandbox in Q1 2024 and then do so for all Chrome users in H2 2024  —  Google's Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage …
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
A look at Sightful's Spacetop, a $2,000 laptop that replaces the screen with an AR headset, giving users a 100" display, available to 1,000 early adopters  —  Sightful's Spacetop AR laptop is brought to you by the chief executive behind the Microsoft Kinect.  —  Laptops have a problem: their screen.
Laura Cole / Wired:
An investigation finds that hundreds of freelancers hired as customer service staff catfish users into paying for subscriptions on niche dating and hookup sites  —  Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.
The Record:
Q&A with the FBI's Bryan Smith on how the agency generated 300+ decryption keys from Hive's servers and gave them to victims, avoiding ~$130M in ransom payments  —  While there was excitement when they actually got that access, there was no time to kind of enjoy that moment …

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