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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.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Linda Yaccarino's main challenge at Twitter will be improving advertiser relationships while keeping Elon Musk happy; sources say she wants to raise her profile — Elon Musk joked in December that he'd step down as Twitter's chief executive officer once he found someone “foolish enough” to take his place.| New York Times: |
Sources and documents: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on messaging tool Lark, used by ByteDance, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns — Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.| Bloomberg: |
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The US Treasury sanctions four entities and one individual over North Korea's “army” of illicit IT workers, often based in Russia and China, and cyberattacks — The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against four entities …
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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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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony sold ~600K PlayStation VR2 units during the first six weeks of availability after its February 22 launch, 8% more than PSVR 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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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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| Financial Times: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US chip export controls has put the US tech industry at risk of “enormous damage”, as Chinese firms start building their own chips — Jensen Huang tells lawmakers to be ‘thoughtful’ about imposing more export controls on Beijing
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Pro X owners say the cameras stopped working this week; a workaround suggests the problem could be related to an expired security certificate — Surface Pro X owners are reporting that the cameras on their devices have stopped working this week.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Six weeks after Amazon demoed its generative AI tools with an unusually vague announcement and just one testimonial, many cloud customers do not have access — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud customers are clamoring to get their hands on the ChatGPT-style technology the company unveiled six weeks ago.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Both AMD's $269 Radeon RX 7600 and Nvidia's $399 RTX 4060 Ti disappoint for 1440p gaming, working better at 1080p, but still offer good performance at the price — I wish 1440p GPUs were more mainstream after years of 1080p dominance. … I'm disappointed.
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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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| 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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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Sudowrite's Story Engine, a generative AI tool for long-form fiction that works better than previous options but still has big limitations — Thoughts are swarming my mind like a nest of cyber-rats. … Last week, generative fiction tool Sudowrite launched a system for writing whole novels.
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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?| Bloomberg: |
Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a $2B valuation, up from $1.22B during its $121M Series D in March 2022, taking its funding to $274M — Insider, a Turkish artificial intelligence-backed marketing platform, was valued at almost $2 billion in a funding round … Sponsor Posts
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