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Ezza Ijaz / Wccftech:
Bluetooth SIG releases its Bluetooth 6.0 spec, which has a Channel Sounding feature that could help Find My apps locate items with “centimeter-level accuracy”  —  The Bluetooth community is dedicated to evolving its technology, introducing more features, and including more devices …
CNN:
The US DOJ seizes 32 domains used in Russian influence campaigns, as part of efforts to tackle Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US presidential election  —  The Biden administration announced a sweeping set of actions to tackle a major Russian government-backed effort to influence …
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Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
Intel cancels plans to use its Intel 20A process node for its consumer Arrow Lake processors and instead plans to use external nodes, likely from TSMC  —  Out with the Intel node, in with TSMC.  —  In a surprise move, Intel announced today that it no longer plans to use its own ‘Intel 20A’ process node …
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Kantar: 26% of marketers plan to cut back X ad spending in 2025 and 14% plan to pull budgets in 2024, over concerns about content and trust in disseminated info  —  Annual survey highlights growing concern about platform content and trust in information disseminated
Helen Bushby / BBC:
The UK CMA launches an investigation into whether Ticketmaster breached consumer protection law with the sale of Oasis tickets, including via “dynamic pricing”  —  The UK competition regulator has launched an investigation into the sale of Oasis tickets, including the use of “dynamic pricing”.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
YouTube begins limiting repeated video recommendations about fitness levels, body weights, physical features, and more to teens globally, expanding from the US  —  Platform will ensure algorithms do not keep pushing similar content to young viewers, even though it does not breach guidelines
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube expands its parental controls with a feature that lets parents link their account to their teen's account and gain insight into the teen's activity
Maia Coleman / New York Times:
US prosecutors charge a man for allegedly using AI to create hundreds of thousands of songs by fake bands to get $10M in royalties from streaming services  —  Federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with gaming the system to win royalties from streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Arkansas-based Laravel, known for its open-source PHP web framework released in June 2011 and which now has 35 employees, raised a $57M Series A from Accel  —  Taylor Otwell has done some risky demos in his life.  —  In a world where nearly every onstage demo is very controlled, Otwell …
More: FinSMEs and Laravel News
Steve Dent / Engadget:
DJI unveils Neo, a $200 drone aimed at content creators and casual users with features like palm takeoff, voice control, ActiveTrack, phone control, and more  —  It's simple to use but offers advanced features like smartphone and voice control.  —  DJI has just unveiled the Neo …
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
As national legislation on deepfake porn crawls through Congress, 39 US states have introduced laws to deter the creation and sharing of nonconsensual deepfakes  —  Legislation addressing the crisis of deepfake porn is being proposed, passing, and failing at the state level all over the US.
Forums: r/politics
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to “cultivate” AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, and plans an AI lab, a VC org, and more  —  The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
The US, the UK, the EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that AI use is “fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law”  —  We're not very close to any specifics on how, exactly, AI regulations will be implemented and ensured …
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Verizon agrees to acquire rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B including debt; Frontier reported $5.8B in 2023 revenue  —  - The deal has an enterprise value of $20 billion including debt  — Verizon to buy fiber rival to expand high-speed internet

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ABC could lose ~$50M in licensing costs to WBD and an estimated $35M in advertising revenue after abruptly pulling the new season of The Bachelorette

Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
A federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order and eliminates the March 23 deadline, now ordering 70 people due back each week

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
A district court judge rules in favor of the NYT in its suit challenging rules that limited press access to the Pentagon, citing the First Amendment

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Juby Babu / Reuters:
C3.ai reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $87.2M, vs. $86.9M est., and subscription revenue up 20% YoY to $73.5M, vs. $79.1M est.; its stock falls 16%+ after hours
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Shares of Truth Social's parent TMTG continue to slide, as the expiration date nears for a lockup agreement preventing Trump and others from selling their stock
Bloomberg:
Nvidia says it has inquired with the US DOJ and hasn't been subpoenaed, following a report that it had received a subpoena from the DOJ over antitrust concerns
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The Internet Archive loses its appeal of a US district court ruling that favored publishers in a copyright dispute over the nonprofit's ebook lending program
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