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WordPress.com debuts a 100-year domain name registration for $38K, offering managed hosting and 24/7 customer service; domains are typically capped at 10 years — WordPress announces the availability of 100-year domain name registrations that include 24/7 assistance and managed web hosting
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
Hackers access some customer data at FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi by SIM swapping an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies — A ‘cybersecurity incident’ affected Kroll, which gathers customer claim data on behalf of bankrupt companies. — Register Now
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Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange. X: @blockfi, @ftx_official, @bantg, @bennetttomlin, @davidgerard, @functi0nzer0, @molly0xfff, @cryptoparadyme, @angelclarksays, and @corpseinorbit
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ThePPShow
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Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others — A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
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Forums: r/politics and r/news
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations — Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI.
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| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
A look at the UK's new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI — Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects
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| Joe Wituschek / BGR: |
X launches a private beta of X Hiring, a job posting feature for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” — Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube's algorithm and what counts as a view — YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators' questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, and has a ~$2B valuation, fewer than 250 staff, and 700 clients, like Microsoft — It's not just Nvidia. There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it's now competing with some of the world's most valuable companies.
X: @wsjbusiness, @coreweave, and @minzengwsj
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Cisco Talos: North Korea-backed Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and health care entities in Europe and the US — A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them — Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them. — For decades, Walla Walla High School …
More: New York Post and The Register
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| Oliver Roeder / Financial Times: |
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior” — Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results — John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work.| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other tech; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents, the most of any company — Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US — Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent … Sponsor Posts
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