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A US appeals court affirms a lower court's 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple's App Store policy banning third-party app stores is illegal — Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store's policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud — Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities …
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Coinbase asks a US federal court to force the SEC to respond to a petition Coinbase filed in July 2022, demanding clearer crypto regulations — The cryptocurrency exchange filed the petition along with a long list of questions last July. … Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote …
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| Max Tani / Semafor: |
With Facebook's pivot away from news and Twitter's decay, media outlets return to digital media's foundational concepts of the early 2000s like homepage traffic — What year is it? Consider the following: — The Drudge Report is the biggest political website in the country.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: to avoid a formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, after a complaint from Slack to the EU — Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: Twitter signed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd's murder; Twitter stopped paying and is trying to sell the stakes — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — With Twitter expected to default on millions still due …
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| Xerox Newsroom: |
Xerox announces the donation of the Palo Alto Research Center, which it founded in 1970 and established as an independent company in 2002, to SRI International — PARC researchers to continue developing pioneering technologies while Xerox focuses on core print, digital and IT services to support clients' hybrid workplace needs.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat sees a spike in 1-star reviews in the US App Store as users pan My AI, its GPT-powered chatbot feature that launched to all users globally on April 19 — The user reviews for Snapchat's “My AI” feature are in — and they're not good. Launched last week to global users after initially …
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| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
Google announces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, powered by the Sec-PaLM LLM, to rival tools like Microsoft's GPT-4-based Security Copilot — Today in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, at RSA Conference 2023 (RSAC), Google Cloud announced Google Cloud Security AI Workbench …
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Common ChatGPT phrases like “as an AI language model” and “I cannot generate inappropriate content” are appearing in and exposing fake Amazon reviews and tweets — The phrase ‘as an AI language model’ is starting to flood Amazon user reviews and Twitter bot accounts.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, and not to AI systems — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent …
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| James Hercher / AdExchanger: |
On April 23, a Meta ad system glitch caused some campaigns to overspend beyond their daily cost cap; agencies say they have had “next to no feedback” from Meta — Hope you had a peaceful Sunday. — If you're a Facebook advertiser, though, that may not have been the case.
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