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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon is working on letting Alexa mimic any voice after hearing less than a minute of audio, as a way to “make the memories last” of deceased family members — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) wants to give customers the chance to make Alexa, the company's voice assistant, sound just like their grandmother — or anyone else.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google details the commercial Hermit spyware, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version contained two new zero-days — The spyware has targeted victims in Kazakhstan and Italy — Security researchers at Lookout recently tied a previously unattributed Android mobile spyware …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: the metaverse, not securing elections, is now Mark Zuckerberg's top priority; Meta has ~60 people focused on elections, down from 300 in 2020 — Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta's focus to the metaverse.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
An in-depth look at the LUNA and UST fallout, as Do Kwon says he has been “devastated” but has “great confidence in our ability to build back even stronger” — Luna's relaunch might be the ultimate act of chutzpah by the South Korean entrepreneur
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| Maddie Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
Instagram begins testing tools to verify ages, starting with 17 or under, using either Yoti's facial analysis tech, photo IDs, or adults vouching for users — Meta's new policy will make it tougher for teens to update to adult accounts. But they can still lie about their age in the first place
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| Phillip Tracy / Gizmodo: |
Microsoft announces gaming-focused features for Edge, including a new homepage, exclusive free-to-play games, and Clarity Boost for streamed games — This latest browser update adds a new gaming interface, graphics enhancements to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and easy access to free casual games. — Alerts
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Changpeng Zhao, who built Binance into the largest crypto exchange, as he navigates a regulatory crackdown in a brutal crypto winter — During the first few months of this year—back when buying digital tokens named after dog memes was still seen, at least in some of the most …
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Coinbase plans to shut down its standalone, trader-focused Pro service by the end of 2022 and replace it with Advanced Trade across its main app and website — The standalone service will be replaced by Advanced Trade, a feature within the main Coinbase app.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Spotify replaces its Concert Hub with a Live Events Feed, populated by Ticketmaster, AXS, DICE, Eventbrite, See Tickets, and other partners — Spotify has expanded its old Concert Hub and added more features to make it easier to find information and tickets for live events in your location.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool, in preview as part of AWS IDE Toolkit, supporting Java, JavaScript, and Python — At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub's Copilot …
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| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
Yelp closes its New York, Chicago, and Washington DC offices as its CEO doubles down on remote work and calls hybrid work policies “the hell of half measures” — CEO Jeremy Stoppelman calls hybrid offices “the worst of both worlds” as he doubles down on remote work| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
OSOM, founded by ex-Essential employees, scraps its OV1 phone and partners with Solana for Saga, a $1,000 Web3-focused Android phone, to be launched in Q1 2023 — The OSOM OV1 was a new Android smartphone built from the bones of Essential, but it's now being rebranded as a crypto/web3 device, the “Solana Saga.”
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| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
China issues new rules for live streamers, including requiring them to have relevant qualifications to discuss some topics, such as law, finance, and medicine — The severe acute respiratory syndrome gave the city its first major health scare since the handover, while in the years that followed … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Cryptoys, which is building blockchain-based kids toys in partnership with Dapper Labs, raised a $23M Series A led by a16z, after a $7.5M seed in October 2021 — The past several months haven't been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn't stuttered too significantly … | Evan Conrad / evanjconrad.com: |
Crypto may be “more bad than good” but decentralization is its main use case, so the claim that “there are still no use cases for crypto” is not rational — I've heard many smart people who I trust complain that “after 13 years, there are still no use cases for crypto.”
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| Financial Times: |
Singapore's fintech policy chief says the country will be “brutal and unrelentingly hard” on “any market bad behaviour” in the crypto industry — Stance marks shift in rhetoric from city-state that had courted digital currency companies
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| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
A hacktivist claims DALL-E-like Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini, generated portraits of brown-skinned women in saris almost every time he ran a blank request — The images represent a glitch in the system that even its creator can't explain. — Like most people who are extremely online …
Tweets: @mtrc, @nilchristopher, @sub8u, @flitteronfraud, and @anupkaphle
| Washington Post: |
The Senate's $52B US chip production bill, passed in June 2021, has been bogged down over unrelated disputes, like climate provisions, delaying the funds — Intel postpones Ohio groundbreaking as Congress faces a do-or-die moment on legislation to provide $52 billion for domestic computer chip production
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google will bring Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing, which helps Google track URLs to monitor dangerous websites, to its iOS app, expanding on Android and desktop — Updates to its user interface and translation features are also on the way — Enhanced Safe Browsing, the Chrome feature …
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| Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware: |
Cerebras says its “wafer-scale” chip set a record for the largest natural language processing AI model trained on a single device, at up to 20B parameters — Democratizing large AI Models without HPC scaling requirements. — Cerebras, the company behind the world's largest accelerator chip …
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Tweets: @peterjansen_ai and @karlfreund
| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell says she does not support the bipartisan privacy bill, a significant blow to long-stalled federal protections for user data — Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell said she's not close to supporting a major proposal, dealing a significant blow to efforts to revive the long-stalled bill
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is planning a “phase 2” antitrust investigation into Broadcom's $69B VMware acquisition, which could take over one year and derail the deal — Brussels competition regulators plan detailed probe in move that will delay acquisition
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| Bloomberg: |
Seeking to regain relevance, screenshots show Clubhouse is testing private rooms, internally called Houses, to encourage friendlier social interactions — Clubhouse, the voice chat app that captured the attention of Hollywood and Silicon Valley early in the pandemic, is experimenting …
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