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Sources: as part of its layoffs, Meta cut an ambitious project that would have let third-party fact-checkers like Reuters add comments at the top of articles — - Meta, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter have all drastically reduced the size of their teams focused on internet trust and safety … | Scott J. Shapiro / IEEE Spectrum: |
How three US teenagers built Mirai, a DDoS botnet that exploited IoT devices, and avoided prison by helping the FBI with cybercrime and cybersecurity matters — First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they can't get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe.| Bloomberg: |
DCG plans to shut down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023 — Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400 self-acceleration issues — A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints … | Akriti Sharma / Reuters: |
Neuralink says the company received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants and plans to offer more details soon — Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs — - JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law — OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting … | Financial Times: |
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Sources: the record $279M whistleblower award issued by the SEC earlier this month stemmed from a 2019 bribery case in which Ericsson paid a $1.1B settlement — The largest-ever award in the SEC's cash-for-tips program was related to Ericsson's bribery case| The Block: |
Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and Web3 mentions from its website's home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI — - VC firm Paradigm is taking its crypto-only focus to include “frontier” technologies such as AI, two sources with knowledge of the situation told The Block.| Bloomberg: |
France's CNIL says Microsoft agreed to change the way it tracks Bing users; CNIL fined Microsoft €60M in December 2022, and threatened fines of €60K per day — Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine.| Emily A. Vogels / Pew Research Center: |
A survey from March 2023: 58% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT but only 14% have tried the tool themselves; roughly four in ten say ChatGPT is somewhat useful — About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) are familiar with ChatGPT, though relatively few have tried it themselves, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March.| Wired: |
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more — We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.| WABetaInfo: |
A WhatsApp beta on Android suggests the company is working on adding usernames, which may let users chat without sharing their phone numbers — WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.11.15. — What's new in this update?
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Get your favorite apps talking to Zoho Sign with Zapier — Your business didn't come together overnight. It's something you've built, refined, and fine-tuned over time. Every tool you use has a purpose …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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