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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.
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| 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 …
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Filing: crypto-friendly US bank Silvergate delays its annual report, citing investigations from regulators, Congress, and the DOJ; SI plunges over 40% — Shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading. — Christy Goldsmith Romero … Commissioner — U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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| 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.
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| 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:
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| 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 … | 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
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| 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.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snap plans to let Snapchat users pause Streaks by buying Streak Restores for $0.99 each time and will soon let Snapchat+ subscribers pause Streaks indefinitely — Maintaining Snap Streaks — where you send a snap to your friend once every 24 hours — is really important to a lot of Snapchat users.
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft researchers unveil Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM they claim can understand image content, pass visual IQ tests, and accepts a variety of input formats — Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI. — On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1 …
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| 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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| Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: |
Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, 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
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| 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 …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese officials have declined to process Arm China's transfer to a new Vision Fund entity, holding up Arm's plan to exit the joint venture — Unresolved restructuring looms over SoftBank's plans for blockbuster listing of UK chip designer — China is holding up Arm's plan … | Reuters: |
Sources: the FDA rejected Neuralink's trial application, citing dozens of issues to resolve before human testing, including the device's battery and removal — Musk has said his brain implant company, Neuralink, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs.
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| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Apptopia: so far in 2023, TikTok has generated $205M more in IAP revenue than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter combined — Big social networks are pulling a massive revenue U-turn since Apple's introduction of App Tracking Transparency. The user privacy feature …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Wunderkind, which lets brands target web visitors through emails, texts, and more, raised a $76M Series C, bringing its total funding to $150M+ — Wunderkind, a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Following criticism, OpenAI says the company won't use data submitted via its API for “service improvements” like AI model training, unless a customer opts in — As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy …
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