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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Elon Musk claims Substack links were never blocked and Substack tried to “download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone” — Elon Musk broke his silence about the Twitter CEO's conflict with the online publishing site Substack and one of its biggest writers Matt Taibbi on Saturday.
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| Matt Taibbi / Racket News: |
Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes — On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess — Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.
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| The Verge: |
Twitter starts marking Substack links with a warning stating the link “has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe” — Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe. If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL …
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| Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: |
Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded” — Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR's account this week …
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| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Tests show Twitter has lifted restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin's, with some appearing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy — Elon Musk's social media site lifts restrictions on Kremlin-linked tweets — Twitter has removed restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts …
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| Prashant Jha / Cointelegraph: |
South Korean prosecutors identify ~$314M in illicit assets associated with Do Kwon and associates, and say Kwon converted most of the ~$69M linked to him to BTC — South Korean prosecutors have contacted Binance to request a halt on withdrawals linked to Do Kwon. — 6397 Total views
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Experts say that when ChatGPT confabulates, the bot is reaching for information not in its training data and filling in the blanks with plausible-sounding words — A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
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| New York Times: |
Bob Lee's murder in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the local tech community to become more involved in city politics — Bob Lee's death has stirred outrage among tech leaders and comes at a precarious time for the industry — and the city it calls home.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers' cash after Signature Bank's collapse and is using at least one middleman to store user funds — As a stopgap, the exchange is using at least one middleman to store user funds on its behalf
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
An interview with Victor Wong, Google's senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple's ATT, and more — To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.” Here's an exclusive peek into how it will work.
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| Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: |
How the gambling industry has kept up with decades of computer-assisted tech developed to beat roulette, like wearable devices, timers, and predictive software — One spring evening, two men and a woman walked into the Ritz Club casino, an upmarket establishment in London's West End.
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| Aric Toler / bellingcat: |
The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before appearing on Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets — In recent days, the US Justice Department and Pentagon have begun investigating an apparent online leak of sensitive documents, including some that were marked “Top Secret”.
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