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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
OpenAI says DALL-E 3 will embed watermarks to images with C2PA metadata and acknowledges the metadata can easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally — OpenAI's image generator DALL-E 3 will add watermarks to image metadata as more companies roll out support for standards …
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @openai, @mer__edith, @gdb, @af_mada, @iuliabaltoi, @slyon66, and @henkvaness
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
A look at Meta's plan to build interoperability into WhatsApp and Messenger under the DMA; Meta plans to make third-party chats opt-in and in a separate inbox — New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here's how that will work.
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| CNN: |
New Hampshire's AG says fake robocalls using deepfaked audio of Biden to discourage voters numbered 5K to 25K and are linked to Lingo Telecom and a Texas firm — A robocall that used an AI voice resembling President Joe Biden's to advise New Hampshire voters against voting …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces Monitor Plus, a $14/month US service that scans 190+ data broker sites and automatically submits requests for removal of the user's data — Mozilla today is introducing a new subscription service that will help people locate and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker websites around the web.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases a beta version of visionOS 1.1, which brings enterprise device management to the Vision Pro — It's been hard to avoid news about the Apple Vision Pro, the company's entry into the virtual reality market, in recent days. It was officially released on Friday to much fanfare, but how will it fare in the enterprise?
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| Nelson Wang / Unchained: |
MicroStrategy bought 31,775 bitcoin in Q4 2023 for an average cost of $39,411, taking its total holdings to 190K bitcoin acquired for a total cost of $5.93B — Software firm MicroStrategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, acquired 31,775 bitcoins in the fourth quarter of 2023 …
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware — The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.| Antoaneta Roussi / Politico: |
More: Reuters, GOV.UK, ComputerWeekly.com, The Record, iTnews, GOV.UK, and ComputerWeekly.com. Forums: Slashdot
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
| Reuters: |
The Netherlands says Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the Dutch Ministry of Defence's internal network in 2023, using a Fortinet vulnerability — Chinese state-backed cyber spies gained access to a Dutch military network last year, Dutch intelligence agencies said on Tuesday …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.38B est., DAUs up 10% YoY to 414M, a net loss of $248M, up from $288M in Q4 2023; SNAP drops 30%+ — - Snap said fourth-quarter revenue rose about 5%, while the company's net loss narrowed 14% from a year earlier.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Shanghai plans to accelerate approvals for foreign firms wanting to send their local data offshore, a major relaxation of China's stringent data rules — Shanghai plans to accelerate approvals for foreign firms wanting to send their local data offshore, four sources with knowledge … | Wall Street Journal: |
Fox, ESPN, and WBD announce a new joint venture to launch a streaming sports service in the US in the fall of 2024; each entity will own a third of the JV — The service will be available to ESPN+, Hulu and Max subscribers.
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| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
A look at OpenAI's “Democratic Inputs to AI” grant program, which awarded 10 teams $100K each to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI systems — One afternoon in early May 2023, Colin Megill nestled into a chair in a plant-filled meeting space at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple Vision Pro review: disappointing for productivity, a very narrow field of view, and the Guest User feature is bad, all making the device hard to recommend — No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. — CmdrTaco, Slashdot — My one small comfort in the cold Wisconsin winters …
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Inside Zuzalu, a co-living experiment organized by Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro in 2023, as the techno-utopian “Network State” concept inspires more projects — Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who's ready to move in? — I.| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Some top cybersecurity experts are retreating from a CISA program that enlists outside professionals, citing growing conservative backlash and management gripes — Scrutiny from conservative activists and management gripes are straining the government's plan to enlist elite security pros in the fight against malicious hackers.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
London-based Colossyan, which uses generative AI and virtual avatars to create corporate training videos, raised a $22M Series A led by Lakestar — Most people don't watch corporate training videos — or, in cases where the training's mandatory, don't give them their full attention.
More: SiliconANGLE, Colossyan Creator, FinSMEs, and Tech.eu
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M+ subscribers, up from 5M+ in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M+ channels receiving ad revenue share — CEO Neal Mohan also says more than 3 million channels now receive ad-revenue share, touts 1 billion hours viewed on TV daily
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LinkedIn: Neal Mohan and Alex Kruglov
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