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A look at OnlyFake, an underground website that claims to use “neural networks” to generate highly convincing fake IDs for $15; one ID passed OKX's verification — This piece was produced with support from The Capitol Forum. — An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use … | Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Snap plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce, or ~529 employees, in part to “promote in-person collaboration”; the company cut 20% of staff in August 2022 — Social media company Snap said on Monday that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees.| Bloomberg: |
How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history — A few years ago, during one of California's steadily worsening wildfire seasons, Nat Friedman's family home burned down.
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Microsoft strikes an AI deal with Semafor for a breaking news feed called Signals; Ben Smith says it will be written by journalists, using AI as a research tool — Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from the New York Times — Microsoft is working …
More: The Verge, Microsoft On the Issues, Semafor, Reuters, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, Online News Association, Thurrott, Newmark J-School, Nieman Lab, Neowin, Engadget, MSPoweruser, and Windows Report
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LinkedIn: Kevin Grant, Justin B. Smith, Kellen Henry, Ginny Badanes, Noreen Gillespie, and Teresa Hutson. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks, which raised over $61M, shuts down after facing uneven sales and failing to get acquired — Weaveworks, a startup focusing on cloud native development tooling, announced today on LinkedIn that it would be shutting down, a sad day for any startup.| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
The Oversight Board upholds Meta's decision to not remove a maliciously edited video of Biden but urges Meta to update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy — However, the board said Meta should update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy.
More: Oversight Board, The Verge, The Hill, Ars Technica, Cybernews.com, PCMag, TechCrunch, Reuters, CBS News, SFist, UPI, Tech Xplore, Reclaim The Net, BBC, Transparency Center, Forbes, Political Wire, TIME, Financial Times, and Benzinga. Mastodon: @Laukidh@infosec.exchange
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
UK-based Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry adapts to the end of third-party cookies — Media sector scrambles to deal with fallout from phase out of cross-website trackers| Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: |
Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including Russia's most popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at ~$5.2B — - Dutch-registered firm reaches agreement to sell Russian unit — Fallout from the war in Ukraine forced tech giant to split up
More: The Record, TechCrunch, DatacenterDynamics, Yandex, Financial Times, Search Engine Land, Reuters, NV, Neowin, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Dataconomy, and Benzinga. X: @maxseddon
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Graphika: the viral pornographic Taylor Swift deepfakes originated from a 4chan challenge to bypass anti-porn filters in Microsoft Designer and OpenAI's DALL-E — - Users on 4chan forum competed to bypass anti-porn filters — Deepfakes also created of Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande
More: 404 Media, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Verge
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Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon added almost $10B to collective profits in the past two years by extending server life estimates, cutting depreciation costs — Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have all shifted estimates of how long they will use technical equipment| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Source: Bethesda considers bringing its new Indiana Jones game to the PS5 months after its Xbox and PC debut, as part of Microsoft's new multi-platform approach — Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones game is also tentatively set to launch on Sony's PlayStation 5 console.
More: Video Games Chronicle, Forbes, GeekWire, Club386, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, Engadget, XboxEra, ExtremeTech, GamesIndustry.biz, Game File, Game Rant, TrueAchievements, GameSpot, Destructoid, IGN, ComingSoon.net, MobileSyrup, Variety, SamMobile, Game World Observer, Windows Central, Cryptopolitan, Game Developer, Gameranx, T3, GamesIndustry.biz, Kotaku, TechRadar, Wccftech, MSPoweruser, Pure Xbox, TweakTown, PC Games Insider, Stevivor, Press Start, GamingBolt, Metro.co.uk, Gematsu, Aftermath, Dexerto, Neowin, Push Square, TheGamer, and Dot Esports
X: @tomwarren and @tomwarren
Forums: r/PS5, r/gaming, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, r/NoSodiumStarfield, r/BethesdaSoftworks, and r/XboxSeriesS
| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others — The round also included participation from Anatoly Yakovenko, the co-founder of Solana. — Register Now
More: Tether, SiliconANGLE, The Block, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, Reuters, CryptoSlate, NFTgators, CoinJournal, Forkast, and CoinStats. LinkedIn: David Moylan
| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
Montenegro's government says it has extradited Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs, to South Korea — Han Chang-joon was charged with carrying falsified travel documents alongside Terra co-founder Do Kwon last year. — Register Now — Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs … Sponsor Posts
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