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February 10, 2023, 2:40 PM
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Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company:
Former staff say Twitter needs to update its systems to enact Elon Musk's asks, but the mass layoffs have brought code freezes and vast concurrent code changes  —  Twitter's outage on Wednesday, which saw the site rendered unusable for most users by blocking people from tweeting within the app …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft cuts jobs in its Surface, HoloLens, and Xbox units; heavy cuts to the HoloLens hardware team raise questions about the third goggles version  —  Microsoft Corp., implementing the layoff of 10,000 workers announced last month, on Thursday cut jobs in units including Surface devices …
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Microsoft's GitHub cuts 10% of its staff, or an estimated 300+; GitLab cuts 7%, or an estimated 114; report: GitHub will close offices and shift to remote work
Brian Fung / CNN:
Some under-resourced academic and civil-society researchers say a Twitter API paywall would jeopardize studies of influence campaigns and platform manipulation  —  For years, Twitter, like other social media platforms, has freely given its platform data to independent researchers …
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Researchers: some Reddit usernames and other keywords cause ChatGPT to give bizarre responses, likely due to the web data OpenAI scraped to train its model  —  Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.  —  Chloe Xiang
Ted Chiang / New Yorker:
As ChatGPT and other LLMs repackage info into superficial approximations, like lossy compression for images, the web will become a blurrier version of itself  —  OpenAI's chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes.  Which do we prefer?  —  In 2013, workers at a German …
Michael Wayland / CNBC:
GM signs a long-term deal with GlobalFoundries to establish exclusive production capacity at the chipmaker's New York facility for the automaker's key suppliers  —  - GM has signed a long-term agreement with GlobalFoundries to establish exclusive production capacity of U.S.-produced semiconductor chips …

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Oliver Darcy / Status:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says he will attend the WHCA dinner, source says as Paramount's guest; CBS News invited Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller as guests

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, and Kansas City Star unions filed grievances with McClatchy, saying it didn't give enough notice for “major technological change”

Daniel Tilles / Notes From Poland:
Newsmax launches a Polish version, starting as a news site and planning to add a TV channel; its ties to a Serbian state-owned company have drawn criticism

More News

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft plans to demo the integration of OpenAI's language tech and the Prometheus model into Word, Outlook, and other Office apps, in March 2023
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
SEC commissioner Hester Peirce calls her agency's Kraken action “paternalistic and lazy”, questioning if closing the staking program was a “win for investors”
SemiAnalysis:
A look at the economics of Microsoft and Google inserting LLMs into search, crushing profitability and requiring massive capex, and the impact on the companies

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg Law:
A US jury finds an artist violated Hermès' rights to the Birkin trademark in 2021 by creating and selling MetaBirkin 100 NFTs depicting versions of the handbags
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Reddit suffered a cyberattack on February 5 during which hackers accessed some documents, code, and business systems; the company says users' passwords are safe
Bloomberg:
Meta submits data to the EU showing that pop up content warnings stopped Facebook users sharing 25% of flagged posts and 38% on Instagram; TikTok reports 29%
CNBC:
PayPal says its CEO and president Dan Schulman will retire and leave the company at the end 2023; Schulman, who became CEO in 2015, will stay on PayPal's board
Alexander Martin / The Record:
The US and the UK sanction seven people based in Russia, with likely FSB ties, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan
Bloomberg:
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has heard “rumors” the SEC wants to “get rid of” crypto staking for retail investors, which “would be a terrible path for the US”
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