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Matt Binder / Mashable:
Microsoft plans to drop Twitter support from its ad platform on April 25; users won't be able to access or manage Twitter accounts through Microsoft's tool  —  Yet another big B2B service passes on paying for Twitter's new high-priced API.  —  Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
After Microsoft Advertising said it was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” over training “illegally using Twitter data”  —  Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants …
Financial Times:
Internal presentation: Google plans to deploy generative AI in ads, allowing advertisers to supply creative material which will be “remixed” to create campaigns  —  Big tech groups are racing to incorporate the groundbreaking new technology into their products
Bloomberg:
The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, with rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024  —  European lawmakers on Thursday gave their final blessing to an ambitious law that will give the European Union its first rules to govern the crypto industry.
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Coinbase says it received a license to operate in Bermuda; source: the company plans to launch an offshore derivatives exchange in Bermuda as soon as next week  —  Coinbase has received a license to operate in the off-shore haven of Bermuda, signaling that the company is doubling-down on plans …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
NCC Group measured a record 459 ransomware attacks in March 2023, up 91% MoM and 62% YoY, saying the surge is likely due to exploits of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT  —  March 2023 was the most prolific month recorded by cybersecurity analysts in recent years, measuring 459 attacks …
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes  —  The company's AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky for Android is now available on the Play Store, after first launching on iOS in February 2023, but the service is still invite-only  —  Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized Twitter alternative, now has an Android app.  The launch follows the release of the service's iOS app, which came out in late February.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft starts naming threat actor groups after weather events, like typhoon, sandstorm, and blizzard; each name represents a nation state or a motivation  —  Microsoft has started naming hackers after the weather in a new naming taxonomy update.  Hackers will now be named after events like storms …
Financial Times:
A look at the India Stack, a set of government-backed APIs on which third parties can build apps integrated with state services for payments, loans, and more  —  New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4bn.  But there are privacy and data protection concerns
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
NYC-based CoreWeave, which provides access to SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M  —  CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues …
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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Seagate agrees to settle with the US Department of Commerce for $300M over shipping $1.1B+ worth of hard drives to Huawei, a violation of US export control laws  —  April 19 Reuters) - Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (STX.O) has agreed to pay a $300 million penalty in a settlement …

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From Mediagazer

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules

Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a “rolling infomercial”

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The New York Times wins three 2025 Polk Awards, including for its Trump coverage; The Boston Globe, ProPublica, AP, and Business Insider also won

More News

Matt Novak / Forbes:
Twitter bans Wired's Dell Cameron for covering that anti-trans activist Matt Walsh's account was hacked; Wired denies breaking Twitter's hacked materials policy
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.4% YoY to $14.25B, vs. $14.35B est., net income up 26% YoY to $927M, and software revenue up 2.6% YoY to $5.92B, vs. $5.83B est.

Earlier Picks

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Atlassian launches Atlassian Intelligence, an AI assistant that uses the company's LLMs and OpenAI's, to offer AI features for Confluence and Jira in the cloud
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk:
Microsoft and decentralized data service Space and Time, in which M12 invested, partner to offer developers real-time blockchain data from the Azure Marketplace
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The US, the UK, and Cisco warn Russian hacking group APT28 is deploying custom malware on Cisco IOS routers, allowing unauthenticated access to the devices
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Snap expands My AI to all users for free and says the chatbot can now be added to group chats and recommend AR filters or places, and will soon generate photos
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Stability AI debuts StableLM, its first suite of instruction fine-tuned LLMs, in alpha, starting with 3B and 7B parameters, with 15B to 65B versions to follow
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The UK CMA opens a consultation on Google's proposal to let developers use alternative payment methods for IAP and reduce its cut to settle an antitrust probe
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