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A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, including testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, Linda Yaccarino, and Evan Spiegel — The chief executives of five major tech companies are testifying Wednesday about allegations they failed to protect children from abuse …
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| New York Times: |
US lawmakers release 90 pages of Meta emails from 2021, showing Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls to bulk up resources for children's well-being and safety — Lawmakers released internal emails detailing the company's failed efforts to add staff to focus on the online safety of minors, hours before a hearing on the topic.
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
The FBI and US DOJ disrupt Volt Typhoon, a uniquely dangerous Chinese hacking operation to hijack hundreds of Cisco and Netgear routers at end-of-life status — Chinese hackers prepare to ‘wreak havoc’ against Americans, FBI Director Chris Wray tells Congress
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M — - Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen said Wednesday that there had been “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts.”| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
An FTX lawyer says the defunct crypto exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform, due to a lack of buyers — Its FTT token surged about 11% after the news. — 10 Years of Decentralizing the Future — May 29-31, 2024 - Austin …
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| Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin's website: |
A look at four major categories of promising applications that could emerge at the intersections of crypto and AI, and the prospects and challenges of each — Special thanks to the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams, Xinyuan Sun, Martin Koeppelmann and Illia Polosukhin for feedback and discussion.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says that Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Copilot features will be available on Apple Vision Pro on February 2 — Microsoft is launching a suite of its Microsoft 365 apps on Apple's Vision Pro headset later this week.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q1 adjusted revenue up 5% YoY to $9.92B, vs. $9.51B est., handset chip sales up 16% YoY to $6.69B, and net income up 24% YoY to $2.77B — - Qualcomm beat on revenue and earnings in the quarter. — The company said it shipped $6.69 billion in handset chips during the December quarter …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says GPT-4 poses “at most” a slight risk of helping create biological threats, according to early tests to evaluate “catastrophic” risks from LLMs — Artificial intelligence startup carried out tests as part of efforts to understand and prevent any “catastrophic” risks from its technology.
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| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
UK prosecutors say the Met Police seized 61K bitcoin, worth £1.4B+, in 2018, as part of a trial over an alleged ~£5B investment fraud in China from 2014 to 2017 — One of the world's largest seizures revealed during trial of woman accused of laundering cryptocurrency for her former employer
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| Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOJ says eBay agreed to pay $59M to settle allegations of violating the Controlled Substances Act by allowing the sale of pill presses and other items — Justice Department says eBay has also agreed to enhance its compliance program — EBay will pay $59 million to settle …
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| Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: |
A look at Ubisoft's problems as insiders fear further layoffs: a wild goose chase after the latest fad, like NFTs, constant delays, low player numbers, and more — As industry-wide layoffs continue to plague headlines, Ubisoft, the sixth-largest video game company by employees, is at a crossroads.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super review: a $200 price cut to $999, 16GB of VRAM, and impressive 4K performance, but a bulky adapter and outperforms the RTX 4070 a little — Nvidia's RTX 4080 Super is the third and potentially final of Nvidia's refreshed 40-series GPUs.
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| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian technocracy — Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It's past time we call it what it is.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
UMG plans to stop licensing content to TikTok after their deal expires on January 31, saying they didn't reach terms over issues like artist compensation and AI — UMG said that its agreement with TikTok is set to expire on Jan. 31. “The companies have not agreed to terms for a new agreement …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Bipartisan Senators unveil the DEFIANCE Act, which would let people sue over deepfake porn and other AI “intimate” images, after the viral Taylor Swift images — US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread …
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| Jeffrey Gottfried / Pew Research Center: |
US adults survey: 83% use YouTube; 68% use Facebook; 47% use Instagram; 27% to 35% use Snapchat, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest; 22% use X and Reddit — YouTube and Facebook are by far the most used online platforms among U.S. adults; TikTok's user base has grown since 2021
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| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
Legislators and privacy experts detail how the tech industry has sought to water down state privacy regulation in the US; 13 US states now have privacy laws — New Jersey's governor signed a hard-fought data privacy law earlier this month, making the state one of eight nationwide … Sponsor Posts
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