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Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15 — Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …
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@malwaretech@infosec.exchange, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @paul@tapbots.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @rodhilton@mastodon.social, @joshuatopolsky@mastodon …, @joeross@mastodon.social, @pollak@mstdn.social, @andrew@esq.social, @jerry@infosec.exchange, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, @malwaretech@infosec.exchange, @willoremus@mastodon.social, @lolennui@mstdn.social, and @ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social
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@elonmusk, @eve6, @buccocapital, @dieworkwear, @mikescollins, @noahgarfinkel, @bestofdyingtwit, @fiercemilder, @chafkin, @pixelatedboat, @espiers, @buccocapital, @astroehlein, @jeffjarvis, @bmkibler, @saruman1, @chrismessina, @tomwarren, @kris_willis, @epro, @jamesrbuk, @nycsouthpaw, @jonlionfineart2, @seyitaylor, @pitdesi, @ultimashadowx, @internethippo, @tszzl, @jarvis, @daveleeft, @edzitron, @matthew_d_green, @seyitaylor, @skillupyt, @carnage4life, @0xgaut, @rleighturner, @modeledbehavior, @heydudeimadam, @emmakennedy, @ashleymayer, @willoremus, @oneunderscore__, @franklinleonard, @benjysarlin, @drewb, @rjcc, @bradfross, @angryblacklady, @mollywood, @willoremus, @mnateshyamalan, @jonfavs, @selviano, @carnage4life, @daveleeft, @turtlesongfarm, and @semaforben
| Zoë Schiffer / Platformer: |
Documents: Twitter has a list of ~35 accounts which it monitors and offers increased visibility to, including AOC, Biden, Marc Andreessen, Musk, and @catturd2 — Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron? — Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under …
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@mmasnick@mastodon.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @Jbat@mstdn.media, @mmasnick@mastodon.social, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @sharearea@mastodon.online, and @rodhilton@mastodon.social
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| Binance Blog: |
Binance CEO CZ says CFTC's complaint contains “incomplete recitation of facts” and Binance does not agree with “characterization of many of the issues alleged” — Today, the CFTC filed an unexpected and disappointing civil complaint, despite our working cooperatively with the CFTC for over two years.
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LinkedIn:
Adrian Pape. Tweets:
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Disney eliminates its metaverse unit, cutting ~50 jobs, and ceases work on an Amazon Prime-like program integrating Disney+ and other Disney platforms — The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees — Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.
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LinkedIn:
Theo Priestley, Chris Keller, and Charlie Fink
| Reuters: |
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers and prosecutors agree on new bail terms, including giving SBF a phone without internet and a monitored laptop with limited functions — Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried said they reached an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on Monday on revised bail conditions …
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| Reuters: |
US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of directing the transfer of $40M+ of cryptocurrency in bribes to Chinese government officials — U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, charging the founder of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange … | Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba plans to reorganize its businesses into six independent entities and devolve operational decisions to each unit's CEO, in its biggest restructuring ever — Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
Europol details how LLMs can be exploited to fuel fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism, and claims people are already using ChatGPT to carry out illegal activities — There is no honor among chatbots — Criminals are already using ChatGPT to commit crimes, Europol said in a Monday report …
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@garymarcus, @sebastienmoras, and @garymarcus
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer plan to step down as CEO on April 17 and president on June 30; ex-Amazon executive David Risher is set to be CEO — - Lyft's cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will step back from their day-to-day roles as CEO and president, respectively.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Google asks a US judge to dismiss a DOJ suit alleging it illegally abused its ad dominance, arguing the government had excluded rivals while defining the market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google asked a US judge to dismiss the government's case against its dominance in the digital advertising market.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Many of the top VPN services and apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices while disguising their ownership, like ties to China — SAN FRANCISCO — As Congress weighs an unprecedented ban of the wildly popular Chinese-owned TikTok over supposed security concerns … | Rest of World: |
A look at Meta's “spirit of the policy” exception that lets the company break its moderation rules in conflict zones and crises; critics want more transparency — An Oversight Board case from Sri Lanka shows the power of Facebook's “spirit of the policy” exception
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@hkanji, @decka227, @decka227, @restofworld, @mvzelenks, and @m_karanicolas
| BBC: |
The UK cancels plans to launch an NFT, proposed in 2022 by Rishi Sunak in a bid to make the UK a crypto hub, and says it will keep the proposal “under review” — Plans for a government backed non-fungible token (NFT) produced by the Royal Mint have been dropped, the Treasury has announced.
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The Guardian, Metaverse Post, Engadget, The Block, The Register, Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, Micky, and Forbes. Tweets:
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| Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters: |
Japan's FTC says it does not expect the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal to stifle competition and closes its review without issuing a cease and desist order — Japan's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it did not expect a merger between Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Activision Blizzard …
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jftc.go.jp, Game Developer, TrueAchievements, GameSpot, Video Games Chronicle, IGN, Destructoid, GamingBolt, Wccftech, and Gamereactor UK. Tweets:
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts iOS 16.4 with 21 new emoji, Safari push notifications for web apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, Crash Detection tweaks, and more — Apple today released iOS 16.4, the fourth major update to the iOS 16 operating system that initially came out last September. iOS 16.4 comes …
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WebKit, Apple Support, Emojipedia, MacRumors, Laptop Mag, Tom's Guide, iMore, MacStories, GSMArena.com, gHacks Technology News, and iThinkDifferent
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@tomayac, @jensimmons, @openwebadvocacy, @openwebadvocacy, @natebirdman, @firt, @saeeddicaprio, and @jonoringer
| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Meta plans to reduce the bonus multiplier from 85% to 65% and restricted stock awards for staff who “met most expectations” in the 2023 year-end review — Meta Platforms adjusts performance review process, saying it is ‘optimizing’ for year ahead| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon opens Sidewalk to developers, providing SDKs and hardware development kits, and claims over 90% of the US population can now access the public network — It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on.
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Light Reading, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wired, gHacks Technology News, and Stacey on IoT
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@fredericl and @gigastacey
| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
A look at the non-consensual deepfake porn economy, with video sites easily accessible via top Google search results and some accepting Visa and Mastercard — The nonconsensual deepfake economy has remained largely out of sight, but it's easily accessible and some creators can accept major credit cards.| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
Filing: a federal judge grants the US government's request to temporarily halt Voyager's bankruptcy plan, putting its proposed ~$1B sale to Binance.US on hold — A federal judge granted the US government's request to temporarily halt Voyager Digital Ltd.'s bankruptcy plan …
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CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, Bitcoinist.com, Micky, Coinspeaker, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoPotato. Tweets:
@holo__of
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Venti Technologies, which develops autonomous vehicle tech for industrial and logistical hubs, raised a $28.8M Series A led by LG Technology Ventures — We are still likely many years away from wide-scale deployment — let alone adoption — of fully autonomous vehicles on our streets …
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Reuters
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: Microsoft-owned GitHub lays off its entire engineering team in India, eliminating 100+ jobs, as part of a ~10% cut announced in February — GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India in an unusual move as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts …
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Tech in Asia, Inc42 Media, Techlusive, Moneycontrol, and TechCircle
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