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Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined Twitter in 2021 after the company acquired his startup Ueno — If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want it.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks — Gigi Sohn notified the White House she would drop out; her nomination was stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: the FTC demanded Twitter turn over internal messages on Elon Musk, details about layoffs, and the names of journalists with access to company records — Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter's compliance with settlement
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy-preserving and speech-protecting service after one year — Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2023 with a “limited live audience” for May 10, when Android 14 details, Pixel 7a's debut, and a Pixel Tablet launch date are expected — Following the literal input/output puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2023 is taking place Wednesday, May 10.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe how Google stalled the release of a powerful chatbot for years due to the risk AI demos could pose to its reputation and search ads business — Researchers developed a powerful chatbot years before rival ChatGPT went viral. After management stalled its release, they quit.
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
US senators unveil the bipartisan RESTRICT Act to let the US ban foreign-linked app and hardware makers the Commerce Department deems a national security risk — A dozen US senators unveiled bipartisan legislation Tuesday expanding President Joe Biden's legal authority to ban TikTok nationwide …
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
How Silicon Valley became obsessed with effective altruism, championed by SBF before he dismissed it as a dodge, and doomsday scenarios like killer rogue AI — Sonia Joseph was 14 years old when she first read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, a mega-popular piece of fan fiction …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Google and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual language model with 562B parameters, integrating vision and language for robotic control — ChatGPT-style AI model adds vision to guide a robot without special training. — On Monday, a group of AI researchers from Google … | Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Panic launches Catalog, a curated game store for its handheld Playdate console with 16 titles, and raises the device's price by $20 to $199 starting in April — As part of a showcase event, Panic announced that Catalog, a game store for its Playdate handheld, would be launching today.
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| CoinDesk: |
A New York bankruptcy judge says Voyager Digital can sell its $1B+ worth of assets to Binance.US, overruling objections by the US SEC and state regulators — The bankruptcy judge in the Voyager Digital case chose to allow the deal with Binance.US over objections from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators.
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@cryptowendyo and @cduhaime
| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Meta tests returning messaging features to the Facebook app, nearly a decade after moving them to Messenger, hoping to “differentiate” Facebook from TikTok — New York CNN — — Nearly a decade after Facebook angered some users by splitting off messaging features …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple's upcoming 15-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro will feature an 8-core M3 chip, the same core count as the M1 and M2 — We've been hearing rumors about a new MacBook Air for a while, but some details about it remain unclear. 9to5Mac has now heard …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Silvergate is in talks with FDIC officials about ways to avoid a shutdown, including lining up crypto-industry investors to help shore up its liquidity — US regulators have been sent to the headquarters of Silvergate Capital Corp., as the troubled crypto-friendly bank looks for a way to stay in business.
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| Glen Allsopp / Detailed: |
A look at the 16 companies behind 562 brands dominating Google Search results, their take on AI and SEO, their niches and the ones they're taking over, and more — In the Academy Award-nominated Food Inc, filmmaker Robert Kenner reveals how the extensive range of products we see on supermarket shelves … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An oral history of LinkedIn, which turns 20 in May, as told by Reid Hoffman and its co-founders, current executives, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, and others — Social media, for work? The world was skeptical. But 20 years and a few white-knuckle moments later, LinkedIn has become synonymous …
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@fastcompany, @jill_bernstein, @adamnash, @jhong, @harrymccracken, @thekenyeung, @greylockvc, @jlindzon, and @max_uf. Thanks:@technologizer
| Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators asked Twitter to hire more moderators and fact-checkers over concerns that Twitter aims to use more volunteers and AI to monitor content — Regulators are concerned that platform aims to use more volunteers and artificial intelligence to monitor content| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on rolling out a dedicated video feed, Google and search, moderation, AI, NFTs, growing its 500M+ MAUs, and more — Reddit announces a scrolling video view for your timeline. … Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago …
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@allisonlcarter and @bigb0yszn
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LA-based Believer, a studio founded by ex-Riot executives that plans to build open world games using generative AI, raised a $55M Series A led by Lightspeed — Gaming is at a crossroads these days: A decades-old business that has had remarkable staying power banked around classic concepts …
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