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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend — For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
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Tweets: @oneunderscore__, @elonmusk, @wongmjane, @chai_coffee_etc, @taylorlorenz, @randfish, @rjcc, @anothercohen, @ashishmohta, @bruce_arthur, @lulumeservey, @althistoryhub, @volksverpetzer, @deanmillson, @tittertakeover, @elonmusk, @mehdirhasan, @byjasonng, @noah_l, @sassal0x, @helenkennedy, @followtheh, @fchollet, @anthony, @intelwire, and @cameronwilson
| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Twitter delays its new paid API launch by “a few more days”, claiming “there has been an immense amount of enthusiasm for the upcoming changes with Twitter API” — Twitter continues confusing shift away from free API — Without just hours of advance notice before the deadline …
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| Bloomberg: |
US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's key routes to the banking system, accelerating since FTX collapsed, pushing the industry to the fringes — Crypto's free pass is getting yanked as the most powerful US financial regulators rapidly close key doors to the country's banking system.
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CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, CNBC, Inside Bitcoins, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
Tweets: @jespow, @patrick_novum, @johnreedstark, @s_alderoty, @belisarius2020, @bitboy_crypto, @annairrera, @kmsmithdc, @leerzeit, @caitlinlong_, @emilyjnicolle, @muyaoshen, @zooko, @matt_levine, @tree_of_alpha, @nic__carter, @ellebeyoud, @thewallstbulloz, @sentosumosaba, @smdiehl, @metalawman, @johnedeaton1, @kjspeakstruth, @matthewstoller, @johnedeaton1, @zerohedge, and @smdiehl
| Dmitri Brereton / DKB Blog: |
At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife — Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype — Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.
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Macworld, The Register, The Verge, Dexerto, Fast Company, Nature, PCMag, SlashGear, Pixel Envy, and OSnews
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Tweets: @movingtothesun, @vladquant, @harrymccracken, @jamespoulos, @sonnybunch, @benedictevans, @danshipper, @benedictevans, @edzitron, @jeffgerstmann, @macwbishop, @lordravenscraft, @marceloplima, @fchollet, @noupside, @transscribe, @rachelmetz, @withinrafael, @rustybrick, @zidansports, @maxwinebach, @ted_underwood, @mcwm, @fchollet, @noahpinion, @bentossell, and @tedgioia
| Aaron Mok / Insider: |
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers — - TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
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Tweets: @realadamrose, @nickcicero, and @mattnavarra
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
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| Varsha Bansal / Wired: |
A look at the Modi administration's attempts to strengthen government control over the internet in India and its battle with Big Tech, which keeps giving in — The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in. — Akash Banerjee isn't sure whether he's allowed …
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Tweets: @shailjapatel, @peterguest, @ahmermkhan, @iamcouncil, @peterguest, and @kkomaitis
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks on its customers last weekend; the largest exceeded 71M rps, 35%+ higher than the previous record — This weekend, Cloudflare blocked what it describes as the largest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date.
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The Cloudflare Blog, DCD, Security Affairs, SecurityWeek, TechRadar, The Record, Infosecurity, The Hacker News, and SiliconANGLE
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Walmart plans to close its Austin, Portland, and Carlsbad, California tech hubs, telling staff to move and be in the office twice a week to stay employed — Retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Portland and Carlsbad and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Google's Photos iOS app is crashing at launch for users with iOS 16.3.1, the latest version; the only known workaround is not to update iOS — iOS 16.3.1 causing Google Photos to crash — A bug introduced in iOS 16.3.1 is causing Google Photos to crash at launch, so users that rely … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
E-book pirate site Z-Library relaunches with unique domain names for each user, after the US DOJ seized 200+ domain names connected to the site in November 2022 — By providing free access to millions of books, Z-Library became the go-to site for many readers in recent years.| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR Tracking, shipping in Q3 2023 — Darshan Shankar, the founder of VR's leading Internet-powered platform for watching movies together …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple's India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, infrastructure, suppliers and officials lacking a “sense of urgency”, and other issues — Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as the US tech giant faces pressure to cut its manufacturing reliance on China.
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AppleInsider, Livemint, iMore, The Economic Times, iThinkDifferent, Patently Apple, and Apple Must
Tweets: @preddy85, @johnreedwrites, @patrickmcgee_, @wholemarsblog, @noahbarkin, and @chadbown
| Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden partners with payments service MoonPay to let users buy digital collectibles using credit or debit cards, Apple Pay, or Google Pay — MoonPay has a similar partnership in place with NFT marketplace LooksRare. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
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The Block, CryptoPotato, TechCrunch, CoinJournal, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, and Decrypt
Tweets: @0xleoinrio, @cryptojohnlocke, and @t_h_nft
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
A look at the torrent of deepfake porn harassment targeted at female creators, as a Twitch streamer admits to buying deepfakes of streamers after he was caught — After Atrioc was caught buying non-consensual, pornographic deepfakes of fellow Twitch streamers, the abuse against women targeted has been endless.
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Washington Post and Dexerto
Mastodon: @drewharwell@mastodon.social, @drewharwell@mastodon.social, and @tatumhunter@mastodon.world
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for its stumbles — Andy Jassy says ecommerce giant will double down on grocery despite recent stumbles
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Tweets: @jeffnolan, @neilretail, and @jimpethokoukis
| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
CryptoSlam: Ethereum NFT sales jumped from $546.9M in December 2022 to $780.2M in January 2023, well down from ~$5B in January 2022; average prices were ~$372 — It's alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise. — Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain … | Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Eric Schmidt-backed startup Ishtari, which uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of each component — The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China.
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Insider. Tweets: @joebotxyz, @aphysicist, @ieet, @hkanji, @richzeoli, @mhbergen, and @mideastxmidwest
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Geneva-based Taurus, which offers digital asset infrastructure to European financial institutions, raised a $65M Series B led by Credit Suisse — - Swiss digital asset infrastructure company Taurus raised $65 million in a Series B round led by Credit Suisse.
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Finextra, CoinDesk, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, Silicon Canals, and Crunchbase News
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Neeva expands its AI search tool NeevaAI, which provides real-time info with citations, to logged-in users in Europe and Canada, after a US launch in January — Challenger search engine Neeva wants to replace the familiar “10 blue links” in search results with something more fitting for the modern AI age.| New York Times: |
Over 30 prominent Chinese dissidents and activists report problems with their Twitter accounts, including disappearing from search or unexplained suspensions — As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.
Tweets: @isaacstonefish and @paulmozur
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