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June 9, 2023, 1:55 PM
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A database on Microsoft's Xandr containing 650K+ “audience segments” shows how data brokers classify consumers by surveilling their online and offline activity  —  A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr's website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” …
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: Netflix gained more US subscribers from May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any other four days since at least 2019  —  Shortly after change, company had highest rate of sign-ups since Antenna began tracking data in 2019
Rahat Sandhu / Reuters:
Binance.US suspends USD deposits and notifies customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13  —  Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat …
Colin Wilhelm / The Block:
Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by co-founder CZ between 2019 and 2021
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
US DOJ unseals a 2019 indictment charging two Russians with stealing ~647K BTC in a Mt. Gox hack; one of them is also charged with conspiring to operate BTC-e  —  One of the individuals also operated BTC-e, the DOJ alleged.  —  The U.S. Department of Justice charged Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko …
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Robinhood plans to end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a company review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance  —  - Robinhood will no longer support Solana, Polygon or Cardano after June 27, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. ET.
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Spotify is testing Your Offline Mix, a new playlist feature that automatically saves a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening  —  / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Chris Cox showed Meta's staff its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app integrated with ActivityPub; documents say the app could be called Threads  —  One of Meta's top executives showed employees a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor during …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
Alex Heath / The Verge:
At an all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg addressed Apple's Vision Pro, saying “that could be the vision of the future of computing” but “not the one that I want”
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Barracuda asked its customers on June 6 to replace impacted Email Security Gateway appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20  —  It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission …
Bloomberg:
Dutch Minister for Digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen asks TikTok CEO Shou Chew to let researchers access the platform to analyze how the algorithm functions  —  The Dutch government asked ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the social media platform in a bid to protect users online.
Financial Times:
Researchers find vulnerabilities in Nvidia's NeMo Framework, which helps developers work with LLMs, letting them bypass safety restraints to reveal private data  —  Researchers manipulate feature in ways that could reveal sensitive information  —  A feature in Nvidia's artificial intelligence software …
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Source: a recent Meta employee survey found 26% of respondents expressed confidence in leadership and 43% said they felt valued, vs. 31% and 58% in October 2022  —  The Facebook parent company is betting that more job security and innovations in artificial intelligence will boost the internal mood as well as the company's bottom line
John Perrino / Tech Policy Press:
Six US senators reintroduce PATA, a bipartisan bill to improve social media transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, moderation stats, and more  —  John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory.  —  The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act …

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New York Times:
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was forced out of her role on Friday, after five days on the job and hosting only one press briefing

Washington Post:
Israeli settlers attacked WaPo photographer Heidi Levine, who wore a “PRESS” vest, in the West Bank, kicking her repeatedly and taking her cameras and phone

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney and Dude Perfect sign a broad deal bringing some Dude Perfect content to Disney+; the group will create original content for events like the Super Bowl

More News

Bloomberg:
A look at Japan's expanding chip sector, aided by $14B+ in subsidies, including for TSMC's plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by narrow, jammed roads
Bloomberg:
A group of ~120 Google contract workers employed via Accenture seek to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, saying that Alphabet is their “joint employer”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
EvenUp, whose AI tool generates legal documents to assess personal injury cases, raised a $50.5M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $325M valuation

Earlier Picks

Emily Chang / Bloomberg:
Evan Williams says he was “sad” when Elon Musk bought Twitter after thinking the idea was “interesting and fun” and Musk hasn't “dialed it in quite right yet”
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apollo's developer plans to shut down the Reddit client on June 30, saying “Reddit's recent decisions and actions” make it impossible for Apollo to continue
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Google releases a conceptual framework for companies to quickly secure their AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models or steal AI training data
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Google plans to launch News Showcase, first announced in October 2020, in the US later this summer, alongside partnerships with five local news associations
Esther Webber / Politico:
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to host an AI summit in the fall with “like-minded” nations, saying the UK would be “well-placed” to convene discussions
David Pierce / The Verge:
WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast feature as “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment and other monetization services
Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law:
A radio host sues OpenAI for defamation over a ChatGPT hallucination, alleging the tool generated a false legal complaint accusing him of fraud and embezzlement
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Internal email: Google plans to consider office attendance records in performance reviews and only take new requests to work remotely full time as exceptions
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