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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking — The White House is bringing in AI's top seven companies Friday to make a series of voluntary promises to protect users.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
A report says the Microsoft key that Chinese hackers stole could have given them more access than originally assumed; Microsoft disputes the report — Microsoft is disputing a new report that claims hackers may have had access to more parts of victims' systems than previously known in a campaign …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to adopt the Message Layer Security protocol for its Messages app; MLS allows interoperable E2E encrypted messaging across services and platforms — Google today announced its support for interoperable end-to-end encrypted communication between large messaging platforms …
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| Lindsey Choo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs declined to 13M, down 70% from the July 7 peak; Similarweb: the average time spent in the app has decreased from 19 minutes to four — Data show user engagement has fallen 70% as executives focus on options such as a chronological feed
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Spotify plans to raise its US ad-free premium tier's price for the first time, by $1 to $10.99/month, and increase prices globally in the coming months — Audio company had avoided raising prices, but faces investor pressure to increase profitability
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| Rich Stanton / PC Gamer: |
Troy Hunt: the sensitive info of almost 4,000 Roblox Developer Conference attendees from 2017 to 2020 was leaked in 2021; Roblox disclosed the leak this week — This may cost the company a few Robux. — The major gaming platform Roblox has suffered a major data breach …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit removes three moderators and takes charge of r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest subreddits to close in protest of the platform's API pricing changes — Reddit is now in charge of r/malefashionadvice, which for a time was the biggest subreddit still closed in protest of the platform's API pricing changes.
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Forums: r/technology and r/RedditAlternatives
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to force some remote corporate employees to relocate as part of a mandate requiring workers to be in the office three days a week — - Requirement comes amid souring morale in wake of layoffs — Company requires workers to be in office three days a week
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| Julie Coleman / CNBC: |
Digital World Acquisition Corp., which is seeking to take Truth Social public via a SPAC merger, settles fraud charges with the US SEC for $18M; DWAC is up 50%+ — - Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. soared more than 50% on Friday after the company reached an $18 million dollar fraud settlement with the SEC.
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| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
Court filing: Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein reach a plea deal over allegedly laundering billions in cryptocurrency from Bitfinex's 2016 hack — An American couple accused of laundering billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen from the 2016 hacking …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
NYC's MTA used AI-powered surveillance software at seven subway stations in May 2023 to track fare evaders, and plans to expand to ~12 more by the end of 2023 — An MTA spokesperson said the software doesn't flag fare evaders to New York police but declined to comment on whether that policy could change.
More: The Verge, GovTech, New York Post, S.T.O.P., and Gizmodo
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Forums: r/news, r/technews, and r/nyc
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
OpenAI plans to release ChatGPT for Android next week, after launching an iOS app in May 2023 — / OpenAI is releasing the Android version of the app for ChatGPT next week after launching on iOS in May. … Since launching in November, OpenAI's ChatGPT tool has reached a number of users …
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