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Netflix cracks down on password sharing in the US and offers paid sharing, which lets some accounts add an extra member outside their household for $7.99/month — Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks — The Florida governor will announce he is running for president on Twitter Wednesday evening in a conversation with Musk.
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| Philip Bump / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk's intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight — It was only a year ago that Elon Musk, then simply the guy who was hoping to buy Twitter, insisted that his politics sat squarely at the center of the national spectrum.| Frank X. Shaw / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft plans to adopt the same plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot offerings — You only need two simple letters to accurately convey the major shift in the technology space this year: A and I. Beyond those letters …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to use generative AI to boost the relevance of Search ads based on query context and debuts a conversational experience for creating ad campaigns — Google is going to start using generative AI to boost Search ads relevance based on the context of a query, the company announced at its Google Marketing Live event today.
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| Vjeran Pavic / The Verge: |
Final Cut Pro for iPad review: touch-friendly design and accessible pricing but limited Mac interoperability and lacks the blade tool, stabilization, and more — The long-awaited iPad version of Final Cut Pro is here and, with it, a touch-friendly design and accessible pricing.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China — And it's happening in plain sight. — Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares …
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| Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: |
European gaming giant Embracer says a “groundbreaking” partnership worth $2B+ has collapsed and lowers its financial forecasts, sending shares crashing by 40%+ — One of Europe's largest gaming companies has slashed its profit forecast for the year after a planned partnership fell through worth …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google launches the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program, a bug bounty program for its Android applications, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $30K — Google has launched the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty program that will pay security researchers … | Will Gendron / Insider: |
Spotify is building AI tools trained on its hosts' voices to create targeted ads, per Bill Simmons, the founder of the Spotify-owned podcast network The Ringer — - Bill Simmons, founder of The Ringer, hinted at Spotify's future AI plans. — He said that the streaming service is working on technology for AI-generated ads.
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| Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: |
A study suggests that the human brain and artificial general-purpose neural networks process language sounds in similar ways — Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills. — How do brains learn?| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds AI-generated app review summaries to the Microsoft Store and an AI Hub to highlight AI apps, designed to guide customers on their “AI journey” — Microsoft is making a big AI-focused change to the Microsoft Store: AI-generated review summaries are going to start appearing across …
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| Reuters: |
Sources, reports, and analysis: Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government from late 2019 until at least 2022 to find information on debt owed to China — Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions …
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| Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 18.9% YoY to ~$8.4B and a ~$596M net income, up from a ~$75M loss in Q1 2022, both above estimates, as cost cutting helps margins — Xiaomi Corp. quarterly revenue slid 19% in a reflection of crumbling demand for electronics and internet services in a sputtering Chinese economy.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
New York-based OpenFin, which offers tools for financial institutions to build unified, digital workspaces, raised a $35M Series D led by Bank of America — Not unlike a post-Internet-era Bloomberg Terminal, OpenFin was a startup which joined the revolutionary world of user interfaces to fast-moving information, back in 2010.
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| Wired: |
Multilingual language models may not be effective tools to moderate content on social networks due the systems' shortcomings in detecting harmful content — Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems' shortcomings can have vast consequences.| Stephen Witt / Rest of World: |
An influx of digital nomads, mostly from the US, in Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities is boosting local economies, as locals complain of being priced out — Cities from Canggu to Medellín are welcoming tech workers, but locals complain they're being priced out.
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony says it sold ~600K PS VR2 units during the first six weeks of availability since launching on February 22, 8% more than PS VR sales six weeks from launch — PlayStation VR2's early sales are ahead of what its PS4-powered predecessor managed, Sony has claimed.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Copilot in Power Pages in preview, letting US customers use an AI assistant to build business data-centric websites using natural language — Microsoft wants to take the pain out of designing web pages. AI is its solution. — Today marks the launch of Copilot … Sponsor Posts
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