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With Musk on the Twitter board, Parag Agrawal may struggle to balance his own vision against that of an unpredictable board member with a much louder megaphone — Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power — Today, let's talk about what Elon Musk means for the future of Twitter.
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| Jillian Ward / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk refiles the SEC disclosure of his Twitter stake to classify himself as an active investor; Musk bought his stake in cash from January 31 to April 1 — Elon Musk refiled the disclosure of his stake in Twitter Inc. to classify himself as an active investor, making the change …
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Twitter says it has been working on an edit tweet option since last year and will start testing the feature in Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months — now that everyone is asking... yes, we've been working on an edit feature since last year! no, we didn't get the idea from a poll 😉 we're kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming months to learn what works, what doesn't, and what's possible.
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Sky Mavis, which runs Axie Infinity, raises $150M led by Binance, with participation from Animoca, a16z, and others, to reimburse users after the Ronin exploit — Sky Mavis, the creator of play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, has raised $150 million to reimburse its users who lost funds during … | David Uberti / Wall Street Journal: |
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Investigation reveals Worldcoin, which collects iris scans in exchange for free crypto, is wrestling with issues, from angry field operators to privacy concerns — As Kudzanayi strolled through the mall with friends, a small crowd caught his attention. At its center, three men held … | Crystal Kim / Bloomberg: |
MicroStrategy uses a loan against its bitcoin holdings to buy $190.5M more bitcoin, a first for the company; MicroStrategy now owns 129,218 BTC, worth ~$6B — MicroStrategy Inc. used a loan against its Bitcoin holdings for the first time to purchase $190.5 million more of the cryptocurrency.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
OpenAI unveils DALL-E 2, the successor to its text-to-image neural network, built using its CLIP language model and available to researchers in preview — Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance.US, the exchange's American affiliate, raises a $200M seed at a $4.5B pre-money valuation from RRE Ventures and others — Quick Take — Binance.US has closed its first funding round, raising more than $200 million at a $4.5 billion pre-money valuation.
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Center for Countering Digital Hate: a study of 8,717 DMs sent to five high profile women shows Instagram didn't act on 90% of reported abusive direct messages — Women on Instagram are exposed to an “epidemic of misogynist abuse,” according to a new report.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Interview with Tim Sweeney and Epic executives on Unreal Engine 5's launch, its “Nanite” graphic rendering tech, using it in building the metaverse, and more — Growing up in suburban Potomac, Maryland in the 1980s, Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games …
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| Kevin Marks: |
Twitter changed how embeds work for deleted tweets, causing blank spaces on websites; Twitter says it is “to better respect” when users deleted their tweets — Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06 With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it …
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| Donna Goodison / Protocol: |
Google Cloud unveils BigLake, a data lake storage engine based on its BigQuery data warehouse, to let customers analyze data across storage systems — Google Cloud plans to launch a new data lake storage engine based on its popular BigQuery data warehouse to help remove barriers preventing customers …
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| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Pinterest will ban ads and posts that feature climate misinformation, as searches about sustainability rise on the service — The virtual pinboard service will remove content that denies climate change after also blocking ads about politics, weight loss and anti-vaccine sentiment.
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| Maria Ponnezhath / Reuters: |
Intel is suspending all business operations in Russia and says it has implemented business continuity measures to minimize disruption to its global operations — Intel Corp (INTC.O) is suspending all business operations in Russia, effective immediately, the U.S. chipmaker said on Tuesday …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The DOJ charges Russian national Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov with running the Hydra Market darknet, after German police shut the service down — The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, a 30-year-old Russian national accused of a range of crimes connected to …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Grafana Labs, which develops the popular Grafana visualization tools, raises a $240M Series D led by GIC, bringing its total funding to $540M — Grafana Labs, the company behind the popular Grafana visualization tools (and other open-source projects like the Prometheus monitoring system) …
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Google AI claims PaLM, its 540B parameter, dense decoder-only Transformer model, shows breakthrough capabilities in tasks like language, reasoning, and coding — In recent years, large neural networks trained for language understanding and generation have achieved impressive results across a wide range of tasks.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD confirms a bug in its GPU driver is auto-overclocking Ryzen CPUs without the user's knowledge by changing settings in the BIOS — Radeon Adrenalin drivers have a mind of their own — AMD has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that a bug in its GPU driver is, in fact, changing Ryzen CPU settings in the BIOS without permission.| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Analysis of 150 US police reports mentioning Apple's AirTags shows 50 cases where women reported being stalked, mostly involving former intimate partners — Motherboard obtained reports of stalking, harassment, and abuse using Airtags, targeting victims of intimate partner violence. — Samantha Cole
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Uber says it plans to add long-distance travel bookings to its UK app in 2022, including intercity trains, coaches, and flights — Ride-booking group aims to become a broader travel hub as part of plan that was delayed by the pandemic — Uber plans to add long-distance travel bookings … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta introduces “Sharing to Reels”, an integration that lets developers add the ability to post videos directly to Facebook Reels from their third-party apps — Facebook is adding the ability to post Reels from third-party apps, its parent company Meta announced on Tuesday.
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Blockchain developer Near Protocol raises $350M led by Tiger Global, after raising $150M in January; CoinGecko says Near's market cap is over $10B — The blockchain developer Near Protocol raised $350 million, more than double what it got just three months ago.| Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: |
Edo, an ad measurement service for TV and streaming co-founded by actor Edward Norton, raises $80M from Shamrock Capital at a $200M+ pre-money valuation — Company, co-founded by actor Edward Norton, wants to compete with Nielsen by helping advertisers see whether consumers take action after seeing a commercialSponsor Posts
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