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Internal document: Twitter's US ad revenue from April 1 to the start of May dropped 59% YoY to $88M; sources say that performance is unlikely to improve soon — In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.| Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: |
Stanford researchers: Twitter failed to stop 40+ known CSAM images from being posted in recent months; the issue seemed to be fixed in May after staff were told — Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Atomic Wallet investigates user reports of compromised accounts and tries to block stolen crypto from being sold; a researcher says the hack could exceed $35M+ — The developers of Atomic Wallet are investigating reports of large-scale theft of cryptocurrency from users' wallets, with over $35 million in crypto reportedly stolen.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
To protest API pricing for third-party Reddit apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other large subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours — Some of Reddit's biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance's Richard Teng is the frontrunner to become CEO if Changpeng Zhao steps down, as US regulatory scrutiny makes succession planning more urgent — In mid-May, cryptocurrency exchange Binance got some bad news in a far-flung corner of its sprawling universe.| Reuters: |
Bank records: from 2019 to 2020, Binance executive Guangying Chen operated five Silvergate accounts belonging to Binance's purportedly independent US affiliate — A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange's purportedly … | Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Instagram restores Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account, banned in 2021 for “sharing debunked claims” about COVID-19 and vaccines, after his presidential bid launch — The prominent anti-vaccine campaigner was suspended in 2021 for spreading misleading health claims.| Sahar Elhabashi / Spotify: |
Spotify cuts ~200 jobs, or 2% of its staff, at its podcast unit, combines Parcast and Gimlet into a renewed Spotify Studios, and reports 100M+ podcast listeners — Below is an adaptation of an internal update on Spotify's Podcast Business from Sahar Elhabashi, VP, Head of Podcast Business.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google opens a beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts.| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
An interview with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on AI's limits, how current machines are not conscious, his 2010 novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and more — The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there's a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at The Frost, a 12-minute movie created by Waymark using DALL-E 2, as startups like Waymark and Runway make AI tools for fast and cheap video production — Exclusive: Watch the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost. — The Frost nails its uncanny, disconcerting vibe in its first few shots.| Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: |
Carbon Health launches a GPT-4-based tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says ~90% are accepted without edits — A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes.
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