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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: |
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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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| 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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Eric Starkman. Mastodon:
@brienneofsnark@ohai.social, @juddlegum@journa.host, and @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net
| 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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John Connolly. Tweets:
@ritholtz, @jaredhstocks, @rxgamble, @venkatananth, @mattglassman312, @trengriffin, @chris_skinner, @business, and @akston_capital
| 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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| 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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The Privacy Sandbox. Tweets:
@thomasgermain, @jonassickler, @vkw, @spencertrask, and @vkw. Thanks:@thomasgermain
| Nathan Lambert / Democratizing Automation: |
An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout — Fear, FOMO, and the scientific exodus driven by ChatGPT — Every single person I know working in AI these days …
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@gowthami@sigmoid.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
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@ericjang11, @bg_learning, @rsbutner, and @anderssandberg
| 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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Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, and Reuters
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@bitfinexed, @aosipovich, and @smtuffy
| 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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In the future …, Simon Willison's Weblog, ILLUMINATION, CryptoGlobe, gHacks Technology News, and Gizchina
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Calvin Chan. Tweets:
@benjedwards, @simonw, @martinfowler, @larerbloggen, @smpl5, @iethics, @mmitchell_ai, @cherthedev, and @fabiochiusi
| 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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@rweingarten, @arictoler, @tara_writer, @jason_koebler, @anarchocorvidae, @vicenews, @evanhill, and @evanhill
| Reuters: |
Baidu sues “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake apps for its Ernie bot on the App Store; Ernie, launched in March 2023, doesn't have an official app — Chinese search engine giant Baidu (9888.HK), has filed lawsuits against “relevant” app developers and Apple Inc …
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