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Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow” — Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu …
Source: @elonmusk and @elonmusk
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| Katherine Alejandra Cross / Wired: |
Reddit and Bluesky are contrasting examples on how not to moderate, one centralizing in the worst way possible and the other decentralizing catastrophically — Moderating a site isn't easy—just ask Elon. But Bluesky and Reddit are contrasting examples of how not to do it.
More: Social Media Today and ZDNet
Bluesky: @haskell.bsky.social, @scaerietale.bsky.social, @bungdan.bsky.social, @lilithsaintcrow.bsky.social, @naptime.theolive.garden, @iluffhomer.bsky.social, @pandaexplosion.bsky.social, @davidgerard.co.uk, and @arjun.bsky.social
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| Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: |
Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley's magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end — In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Why the Vision Pro app store may get more traction than the Apple Watch or TV app stores did, despite the headset's small user base for the first few years — Third-party apps will be crucial to the success of the Vision Pro, but the pricey and niche nature of the device means that developers may not quickly flock to it.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An analysis of eight AI commitments made by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection to the White House, and their potential impact — Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they'll do with their technology. Our columnist sizes up their potential impact.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Wiz researchers: the compromised MSA signing key could have given Chinese hackers access beyond Outlook.com and Exchange Online; 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 …
Source: Wiz Blog. More: BleepingComputer, Wired, Washington Post, The Hill, The Register, and SiliconANGLE
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs — Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models. But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant
Twitter: @madhumita29, @fttechnews, @jmateosgarcia, @jmateosgarcia, @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @madhumita29, and @gavinsbaker. Forums: Hacker News
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Coinbase plans to shut down its bitcoin-backed loan program Borrow for retail customers and says loan holders must pay any outstanding dues by November 20, 2023 — - Coinbase will fully sunset its Borrow program for retail customers, effective November 20.
More: Coinbase Help, crypto.news, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, NewsBTC, Cryptopolitan, and PYMNTS.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Nearly 200 US school districts have joined lawsuits against Meta, ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet, alleging their apps cause disciplinary and mental health issues — Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube seek to dismiss federal suits, citing internet liability shield
Twitter: @joshconstine and @zg4ever
| Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: |
Similarweb: by May-end, daily downloads of ByteDance's social media app Lemon8 fell to 6.7% of its March peak; the app was in the US App Store's top 10 in March — Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers over ordinary people.
More: The Economic Times. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @mattnavarra, @anupkaphle, @restofworld, @restofworld, and @caiweic
| Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at a proposed Massachusetts bill that would let state police use face recognition for image matching, but not face surveillance or emotion recognition — A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America.| Emma Goldberg / New York Times: |
A US AT&T call center worker details working with an AI tool that transcribes calls and offers technical solutions, and wonders “am I training my replacement?” — To many people, chatbots and other technology feel like a ticking time bomb, sure to explode their work.
More: Tech Policy Press. LinkedIn: Stephen Loynd. Bluesky: @anav.bsky.social and @kashhill.bsky.social
Twitter: @michaelroston, @datasociety, @tnewmstweet, @doug_bloch, @lizrhoffman, @ccwunited, @nytimesbusiness, @flitteronfraud, @nytimesbusiness, @stevelohr, and @justinhendrix. Forums: Hacker News
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