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WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging apps sign a letter urging the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill, which would weaken privacy on the internet — Encrypted messaging services have jointly called for changes to parts of the UK Online Safety Bill (OSB).
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| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
A winner at the Sony World Photography Awards rejects the award, saying his submission was AI-generated and meant to test if such competitions were ready for AI — A winner at this year's Sony World Photography Awards wasn't a photo at all. — Jordan Pearson
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Peter Ogden. Tweets:
@scalzi, @harrymccracken, @nickfromupnorth, @elunaai, and @julianrademeyer
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Bittrex and its ex-CEO for allegedly operating an unregistered securities exchange, claiming tokens like Algorand and Omise Go are securities — The agency said Bittrex failed to register as an exchange, broker or clearing agency. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged …
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John Reed Stark. Tweets:
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple launches its Apple Card Savings account, announced in October 2022, letting users deposit Daily Cash rewards into a 4.15% high yield account with no fees — Months after its first announcement, Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users, with users able to route Daily Cash rewards …
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LinkedIn:
Paul de Ruijter and Nami Baral
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says “anything is on the table, including relocating” from the US if regulatory clarity for the industry does not emerge — Armstrong said “anything is on the table” in terms of Coinbase's plans should greater regulatory clarity not emerge in the U.S.
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@brian_armstrong, @brian_armstrong, @ruskin147, @ryan_browne_, @raoulgmi, and @ctolarsson
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter plans to introduce labels on tweets for which the company has limited searchability or visibility due to a violation of its hateful conduct policy — Twitter is introducing new labels it will show on tweets the company limits for breaking its rules.
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| Bailee Hill / Fox News: |
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk says he's working on “TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe” — Tucker Carlson's exclusive interview with Musk airs Monday at 8pm ET on Fox News
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@parismarx, @foxnews, @jamespmanley, @mnateshyamalan, @martinsfp, @jimstewartson, @charlesarthur, @carnage4life, @epro, and @rob_sheridan
| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
Documents detail hundreds of ICE investigations into employees allegedly misusing its database, from stalking and harassment to passing information to criminals — Documents obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of investigations by the US agency into alleged database misuse that includes harassment, stalking, and more.| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
Illinois, Michigan, and seven other US states join the DOJ lawsuit against Google, jointly filed with eight states in January 2023, for alleged ad tech monopoly — Nine more U.S. states on Monday joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed earlier by the Justice Department against Alphabet Inc's Google … | Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
A look at autonomous AI agents like Auto-GPT and BabyAGI, which perform multistep tasks by iteratively taking output from GPT-4 and feeding it back into itself — AutoGPT and BabyAGI run GPT AI agents to complete complex tasks iteratively. — Since the launch of OpenAI's GPT-4 API …
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@trengriffin, @sharongoldman, @brianroemmele, @guygadboisguyg1, and @carnage4life
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon creates a PR project called Ratatouille to boost its image in France through TV ads, promotion of French-made products sold on Amazon, and more — Amazon.com Inc. has cooked up a public-relations project called “Ratatouille” to boost its image in France, where the company isn't as popular as in other European markets.
Tweets:
@rmac18
| Wall Street Journal: |
US attorneys charge 40+ staff at China's domestic security agency, alleging they made thousands of fake profiles on Twitter and elsewhere to pose as US citizens — Complaint depicts vast effort to disguise criticism of U.S. policies as coming from Americans
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US Department of Justice, The Register, The Record, Engadget, Associated Press, and Slashdot
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian customers are yet to fully benefit from Apple's India initiatives due to prohibitively expensive products and services like Apple Pay being unavailable — The reality is that millions of Indian consumers continue to purchase Apple products despite feeling like second-tier customers.
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@shivaroor, @dmuthuk, and @tds19
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
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LinkedIn:
Amit Gupta and Viren Sood
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@madhuridixit, @tim_cook, @tim_cook, @2shar, @macworld, @jimcramer, @markgurman, @imore, @markgurman, @tariqkrim, @connectgurmeet, @c_aashish, and @chandrarsrikant
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