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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default for one-on-one chats and calls, fulfilling a yearslong promise; E2EE for group chats remains opt-in  —  Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally fulfilling …
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Apple's guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain a push notification token's associated Apple ID “with a subpoena”; Google requires a court order  —  Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday
Alexander Martin / The Record:
The UK accuses a unit of Russia's FSB of using cyberattacks in a “sustained but unsuccessful” campaign to undermine British democratic institutions since 2015  —  The British government accused a unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday of using cyberattacks in a …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Montenegro Justice Minister Andrej Milovic has privately said he plans to extradite Do Kwon to the US rather than South Korea to face criminal charges  —  Alexander Osipovich and Marko Vešović  —  Montenegro's top justice official has privately said he plans …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Sony removing Discovery content due to licensing “arrangements” and unexpectedly banning PSN accounts are timely reminders that users don't own digital content  —  In less than a week, Sony has given us two timely reminders of the tenuousness of digital “ownership” — and both reminders involve things on PlayStation.
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Robinhood launches a commission-free crypto trading app, supporting 25+ cryptocurrencies, in the EU, a week after the company launched stock trading in the UK  —  - More than 25 tokens available to trade for free at launch  — Launch comes as Bitcoin's price recovers to 19-month high
Reuters:
Reuters temporarily removes its article titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision  —  Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued …
Erin Griffith / New York Times:
PitchBook estimates that at least ~3,200 private venture-backed US startups, which had raised a combined $27.2B in VC funding, have gone out of business in 2023  —  After staving off collapse by cutting costs, many young tech companies are out of options, fueling a cash bonfire.
Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
Sources: Bungie's October 2023 layoffs came alongside a scramble to avoid a total Sony takeover, which may happen if Bungie doesn't meet certain financial goals  —  The Destiny 2 and Marathon developer may not be able to cling to the last of its independence forever.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Users say Google's Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks  —  This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Bitzlato co-founder Anatoly Legkodymov pleads guilty in the US to operating a money transmitter for illicit funds and agrees to dissolve the crypto exchange  —  Anatoly Legkodymov says he'll dissolve the sanctioned exchange as part of his plea.  —  Register Now
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out tags on Threads, with support for multiple words and no # marks; there can be just one tag per post and the tag view is the search view  —  Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday.
Jim Norman / Nintendo Life:
Nintendo cancels Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo and delays Splatoon and Mario Kart esports events after “persistently receiving threats” against staff and spectators  —  Splatoon and Mario Kart events postponed too  —  Nintendo has today announced that the first Nintendo Live event of 2024 …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development by offering tools and evaluations for safely building open generative AI models  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to promote the responsible development of artificial intelligence systems with a new initiative called Purple Llama.
Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo:
X rolls out xAI's chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users  —  Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday.  —  Elon Musk's snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok, started rolling out to X Premium Plus users on Thursday.  X users who paid $16 a month, or $22 via the app …
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Meta's Oversight Board takes up two expedited cases, the first ever, related to the Israel-Hamas war, over removed and reinstated Instagram and Facebook posts  —  The board is going to look at two posts removed for violating Meta's policies against sharing graphic imagery and depicting dangerous organizations and individuals.

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From Mediagazer

Sara Fischer / Axios:
60 Minutes' CECOT segment, pulled by Bari Weiss, was mistakenly aired in Canada via an app owned by Global Television, which airs 60 Minutes in the country

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD's board says it will “carefully review and consider” Paramount's revised offer, which includes a full backstop personally guaranteed by Larry Ellison

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Email to staff: NPR's standards chief proposes limiting quotes from University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias, “an expert at getting himself quoted”

More News

Washington Post:
How Google, Meta, and other tech giants ramped up university donations over the years, giving them influence over AI, social media, and disinformation research
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Paytm's stock fell ~20% after the company announced plans to issue fewer personal loans under ~$600 to comply with the Reserve Bank of India's tightening rules

Earlier Picks

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI, which is building LLMs that support Indian languages, emerges from stealth with a $41M combined seed and Series A led by Lightspeed
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft plans the next major Windows version for 2024, with an AI-powered Windows Shell, an “advanced Copilot”, natural language search, and more
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Steve Hotelling, the Apple VP overseeing technologies like touchscreens, health sensors, and Face ID, and one of the inventors of Touch ID, is retiring
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
AMD launches Instinct MI300X and MI300A AI accelerators and claims the MI300X delivers up to 1.6x more performance than Nvidia's H100 HGX in inference workloads
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