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Documents: Google plans to make search more “visual, snackable, personal, and human”, incorporating short videos, social media posts, and conversations with AI — Changes aim to respond to queries that can't be easily answered by traditional ‘10 blue links’ web results
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| Kylie Robison / Fortune: |
Bluesky says it can't “accommodate heads of state” as it seeks to control growth during its beta; Bluesky currently has ~60K users and a waitlist of 1.2M people — Bluesky, the buzzy social media platform that's emerging as a Twitter competitor, said on Friday that it will not allow …
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
An independent researcher's data shows that out of the ~150K Twitter Blue subscribers in November 2022, just ~68,157 were still subscribed on April 30 — The early birds cancel their subscriptions. — Twitter Blue's struggles since its launch nearly six months ago are more severe than previously revealed, new data suggests.
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Sources: the US DOJ is investigating if Binance was used to let Russians skirt US sanctions, alongside a probe into its alleged use to evade sanctions on Iran — The Justice Department is investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. was used illegally to let Russians skirt US sanctions … | Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content — From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling “right to be forgotten” requests — The European Union's fight with ChatGPT is a glance into what's to come for AI services.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of IEEE's Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, more — “That's always an exciting place to be — a place where nobody's ever been before." — Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted — The FT's Cristina Criddle on discovering she'd been surveilled by the controversial social media company
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed — Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Discord says it will let “high-visibility users” secure usernames to minimize the risk of impersonation, as some users criticize its plans to change usernames — A race to reserve usernames is kicking off on Discord. — Starting in the next couple of weeks …
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| Lora Kelley / New York Times: |
A profile of Roger Lee, who runs Layoffs.fyi that has catalogued ~450,000 tech job cuts and Comprehensive.io that tracks compensation in tech job postings — Roger Lee has cataloged hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts on his site Layoffs.fyi. He still believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back.
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@loracorkelley, @pkafka, @bmorrissey, @dealbook, @jordynjournals, and @emmabgo
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
An Idaho federal judge dismissed an FTC lawsuit against location data broker Kochava, saying the agency had not provided adequate evidence to show consumer harm — The ruling was a blow to the commission's intensifying efforts to crack down on the sale and use of sensitive personal information.
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