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Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; all users can use an authenticator app or a physical security key — In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use a far …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft limits Bing chats to five questions per session and 50 questions per day; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic — Microsoft says it's implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails multiple times for users.
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
The transcripts of various interactions with Bing's AI show that the chatbot is doing what it was trained to do, albeit more broadly than Microsoft would prefer — In his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed …
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| Phineas Rueckert / Forbidden Stories: |
Leaked docs detail reputation management company Eliminalia's tactics to remove public-interest info from the internet, like via fake sites and copyright claims — Leaked documents obtained by Forbidden Stories reveal the inner world of Eliminalia, a Spanish reputation management company.
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| Cam Thompson / CoinDesk: |
OpenSea temporarily drops marketplace fees to compete with no-fee marketplace Blur, which on February 15 beat OpenSea in daily trading volume for the first time — The top NFT marketplace's policy shift stems from competition with popular zero-fee marketplace Blur.
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Biden and some GOP senators have formed a loose alliance in asking SCOTUS to change Section 230 protections when hearing Gonzalez v. Google on February 21 — WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and some of his most prominent Republican adversaries in Congress have become allies, of sorts … | Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Bitcoin's five maintainers scattered globally, who steward the open-source Bitcoin Core, after four turnovers in 18 months cited burnout or legal risk — Developers with power to change the cryptocurrency's software hold an unorthodox role, are elusive—and have been known to head off disaster for the coin
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| Bloomberg: |
US regulators expanding their crypto investigations has led some companies to look to financial hubs overseas, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Europe, and Dubai — A spate of crypto probes in the US is prompting battered digital-asset firms to look toward financial hubs overseas …
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| Li Yuan / New York Times: |
Experts say China is behind the US in AI tools like ChatGPT due to censorship, geopolitical tensions, and the government's growing control of the private sector — The state's hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs' reluctance to invest for the long term.
Tweets: @nickkristof, @julianku, @liyuan6, @pstasiatech, and @jchengwsj
| Sheena Vasani / The Verge: |
Google says Workspace users will be able to manage tasks created in Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Assistant from Google Tasks starting on March 6, 2023 — Beginning May 22nd, Google will automatically move reminders created in the Google Assistant and Calendar apps to Tasks … | Pradeep Viswanathan / BigTechWire: |
Microsoft plans to increase the price of using Bing Search APIs by up to 10x starting on May 1, including for image and news search, and adds APIs for LLMs — Microsoft Bing Search APIs allows developers to build web-connected apps and services that find webpages, images, news, videos, and more without advertisements.| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
The theft of ASML's IP in China, the company's third-biggest market, could spark even tighter controls on ASML, creating problems for its growth in the country — In the 10 years that Peter Wennink has run ASML Holding NV, China has gone from a rounding error to the chip-technology company's third-biggest market.
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