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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.
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| 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 …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
YouTube says a “Vision Pro app is on our roadmap” but doesn't offer a timeframe; YouTube videos in 360 and VR playback modes are not viewable in visionOS Safari — Here's a little bit of an about-face: YouTube now says it has a Vision Pro app on its roadmap.
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| 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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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Forums: r/PS5, r/gaming, r/Games, r/XboxSeriesX, r/NoSodiumStarfield, r/BethesdaSoftworks, and r/XboxSeriesS
| 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
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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 equipmentSponsor Posts
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