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March 2, 2023, 12:50 PM

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CyberScoop:
The Biden administration releases its cybersecurity strategy, seeking to impose minimum standards, shift responsibility to larger software makers, and more  —  The strategy represents a shift in how Washington approaches cybersecurity, veering toward a more strictly regulated approach.
Christiana Loureiro / The Block:
Coinbase switches banking partners for Prime accounts from Silvergate to Signature, after Silvergate reported being “less than well-capitalized”  —  Coinbase said it was no longer accepting or initiating payments to or from Silvergate after the troubled crypto bank said yesterday that it may be …
CoinDesk:
Filing: crypto-friendly US bank Silvergate delays its annual report, citing investigations from regulators, Congress, and the DOJ; SI plunges over 45%  —  Shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading.  —  Christy Goldsmith Romero … Commissioner  —  U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
David Z. Morris / CoinDesk:
After a report said Binance misplaced ~$1.8B in USDC, Binance offered confused and sometimes contradictory responses, continuing its petulant and defensive tone  —  The FUD is coming from inside the building, says David Z. Morris, CoinDesk's chief insights columnist.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
After Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds  —  Long story short: If you're a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps:
Elizabeth Weil / New York Magazine:
A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do  —  Nobody likes an I-told-you-so.  But before Microsoft's Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta's Galactica spewed racist rants …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft updates its Bing chatbot to let users toggle between creative, balanced, and precise tones, hoping to counter Bing's wild outbursts  —  Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing chatbot that lets you toggle between different tones for responses.
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
Email app BlueMail's co-founder says Apple blocked an update that added ChatGPT-powered features over inappropriate content concerns, requiring a 17+ age limit  —  iPhone maker asks email app with AI-language capabilities to set a 17-and-older age restriction  —  Regulation of Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: EU regulators seem likely to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, satisfied by the company's Nintendo and Nvidia licensing deals  —  EU antitrust regulators are not expected to demand that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) sell assets to win approval for its $69 billion acquisition …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
CRM startup Attio, which claims better performance than Salesforce and its rivals, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Redpoint and crossed $1M ARR in December 2022  —  While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm.
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John Tozzi / Bloomberg:
Teladoc Health, which runs BetterHelp, settles with the FTC for $7.8M and agrees to stop sharing data with Meta, Snap, and other companies for ad purposes  —  Teladoc Health Inc.'s online mental health unit will be banned from sharing information with Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc …
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Microsoft unveils Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM the company claims can analyze images for content, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and more  —  Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI.  —  On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1 …
Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity:
Researchers detail BlackLotus, a UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022  —  The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality
Reuters:
Sources: the FDA rejected Neuralink's clinical trial application, citing dozens of issues to fix before human testing, like the device's removal and its battery  —  Musk has said his brain implant company, Neuralink, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs.
John Koetsier / Forbes:
Apptopia: TikTok's IAP revenue has grown for seven straight quarters, earning $205M more than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter combined so far in 2023  —  Big social networks are pulling a massive revenue U-turn since Apple's introduction of App Tracking Transparency.

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