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| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
Microsoft says DDoS attacks by hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan “temporarily impacted availability” of some of its services, including Azure, in early June 2023 — In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft's flagship office suite …
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| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Reddit's management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant content moves to other platforms — When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit's community won't ever be the same. — It's pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit.
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Twitter: @jonerp, @mukund, @happyroadkill, @davemcclure, @nicholasadeleon, and @merrittk
Forums: r/ModCoord and Slashdot
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Similarweb: Reddit had ~52M visitors on Tuesday, June 13, down from 57M the day before blackouts began; average session was 7.2 minutes, lowest in three years — The protest appears to have had a small but noticeable effect on the platform. — When more than 8,000 subreddits went dark …
More: Insider, The Verge, and Associated Press
| Bloomberg: |
How Huawei lost a ~$200M contract to build Danish telecom TDC's 5G network in 2019, after TDC opened a probe suspecting Huawei of unethical business practices — At a hastily scheduled meeting on March 5, 2019, the bidding to upgrade Denmark's cellular network crossed over into something strange.
Forums: Hacker News
| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Intel agrees in principle to build a $25B chip manufacturing plant in Israel, which is slated to begin operations by 2027 and remain active until at least 2035 — Intel Corp. has agreed in principle to build a new manufacturing plant in Israel in the latest move by the US semiconductor giant to diversify its production sources.
More: Globes Online, Reuters, Financial Times, and Livemint
| Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: |
Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey, its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, offering Coinbase and CashApp integrations; Block plans to add BTC trading — Bitkey will allow beta users to withdraw Bitcoin from Coinbase and Cashapp using “copy and paste.”
More: Coinbase Blog, The Daily Hodl, CoinDesk, and The Block
Twitter: @coinbase, @jack, @alejandro_btc, @ltgrossman, @ltgrossman, and @ltgrossman
| Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: |
Report: a group of central banks developed 33 API functionalities to test 30+ CBDC online, offline, and in-store use cases, via QR codes, phones, and more — An API layer could facilitate a wide range of central bank digital currency payment scenarios, a Bank for International Settlements and Bank of England experiment has shown.
More: Quant, NewsBTC, CryptoPotato, BIS, crypto.news, and Cryptopolitan
Twitter: @quant_network and @bis_org
| Michael Holden / Reuters: |
The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick, which Warner Music acquired in 2017 — The British government said on Sunday that tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth would head its new taskforce to look at the safety risks posed by artificial intelligence.
Twitter: @soundboy, @soundboy, and @scitechgovuk
| Stanford CRFM: |
Researchers find that major foundation model providers can feasibly comply with the EU's draft AI Act, which would improve transparency in the entire ecosystem — Stanford researchers evaluate foundation model providers like OpenAI and Google for their compliance with proposed EU law on AI.
Twitter: @dynamicwebpaige, @ampanmdagaba, @mario_gug, @alexcengler, @dwhitena, @zennerbxl, @rishibommasani, @heikirk, @responsableia, and @irenesolaiman
| New York Times: |
WhatsApp keeps banning Taliban officials' accounts due to US sanctions, causing disruptions at the nascent government, which relies on the app for communication — The Taliban administration is stuck in a cat-and-mouse game with WhatsApp, which is off-limits to the nascent government because of U.S. sanctions.
Twitter: @nytimes, @pstasiatech, @oviosu, @waheedwafa222, @jeffrigsby2, and @andreasharsono
| Farah Nayeri / New York Times: |
How architects are using AI to design workplaces, office buildings, and spaces that cater to workers' individual needs, as more companies adopt a hybrid model — With more hybrid workers and new office needs, firms like Zaha Hadid Architects are turning to artificial intelligence for solutions.
LinkedIn: Kurt Evans, Bernardo Scheinkman, and Steve Zoegall
| Takahiro Shibuya / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Huawei is seeking licensing fees from ~30 small to midsize Japanese firms over the use of its patented tech, an unusual move for a major manufacturer — Chinese telecom giant turns to patent fees to offset sales decline — China's Huawei to trying to forge a path forward amid U.S. sanctions … Sponsor Posts
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