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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
At an all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg addressed Apple's Vision Pro, saying “that could be the vision of the future of computing” but “not the one that I want” — / Zuckerberg directly addressed Apple's Vision Pro unveiling in a meeting with Meta employees today …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Chris Cox showed Meta's staff its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app integrated with ActivityPub; documents say the app could be called Threads — One of Meta's top executives showed employees a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor during …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a plan to employees on Thursday that will see it put generative AI text …
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| Rahat Sandhu / Reuters: |
Binance.US suspends USD deposits and notifies customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13 — Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat …
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A database on Microsoft's Xandr containing 650K+ “audience segments” shows how data brokers classify consumers by surveilling their online and offline activity — A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr's website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Barracuda asked its Email Security Gateway customers on June 6 to replace infected appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20 — It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apollo's developer plans to shut down the Reddit client on June 30, saying “Reddit's recent decisions and actions” make it impossible for Apollo to continue — Popular third-party Reddit app Apollo will be shutting down as of June 30, Apollo developer Christian Selig announced today.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Spotify is testing a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which will automatically save a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening — / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’| Emily Chang / Bloomberg: |
Evan Williams says he was “sad” when Elon Musk bought Twitter after thinking the idea was “interesting and fun” and Musk hasn't “dialed it in quite right yet” — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, who watched Elon Musk's advances on the company in 2022 with great interest …
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| John Perrino / Tech Policy Press: |
Six US senators reintroduce a bipartisan bill to improve social media transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, moderation stats, and more — John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory. — The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US — Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Google releases a conceptual framework for companies to quickly secure their AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models or steal AI training data — - One example is social media, where users were so eager to connect with one another on new platforms that they paid little scrutiny …
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| Hilary Allen / Financial Times: |
After the SEC's recent actions and failures of FTX, Celsius, and Luna, Republican lawmakers proposing a crypto market bill is a jarring gift to the industry — Republican proposal for new legislation would legitimise the digital asset industry and undermine investor protection| Bloomberg: |
The Dutch government asks TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the platform, with plans to analyze how the algorithm functions — The Dutch government asked ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the social media platform in a bid to protect users online.
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Aided by $14B+ in subsidies, a look at Japan's expanding chip sector, including TSMC's plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by terrible roads and traffic — Every morning, some of the world's top chip engineers can be found stuck in traffic on Kumamoto Prefecture's Route 30 … | Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: |
A US judge rejects a request to relinquish control over $7.3B in disputed FTX assets; liquidators in the Bahamas argued a local judge should oversee the process — Liquidators had argued the assets should be overseen by a court in the Bahamas during a bankruptcy hearing for the exchange on Thursday.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $661.4M, vs. $642M est., subscription revenue up 12% YoY, and a $539K net profit, up from a $27.4M net loss in Q1 2022 — Shares of the e-signature company DocuSign Inc. are trending higher today after it delivered a solid first quarter earnings … | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Blackpoint Cyber, which offers managed cybersecurity detection and response services, raised a $190M Series C led by Bain Capital with participation from Accel — Blackpoint Cyber, a startup that provides managed cybersecurity services using an internally developed software platform, has raised $190 million in fresh funding.
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