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Platformer:
Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether  —  Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
Nigeria's SEC orders that Binance halt operations in the country, deeming them illegal as the local unit is “neither registered nor regulated by the Commission”  —  The order against Binance Nigeria Limited follows U.S. SEC allegations that the exchange had violated federal securities laws.
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Reddark: over 100 subreddits have gone dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's recent remarks on API changes in an AMA, and thousands plan to follow  —  The version of Reddit we'll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself.  More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark …
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
In an AMA on Reddit's API changes, CEO Steve Huffman says the company can no longer “subsidize commercial entities”, criticizes the Apollo developer, and more
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums  —  While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons.
Washington Post:
Verizon report: median amount lost from business email compromise is $50K in recent years and median ransomware damage doubled to $26K over the last two years  —  A smorgasbord of data in Verizon's annual breach report  —  When a vulnerability in the ubiquitous open-source tool log4j …
Washington Post:
NHTSA data shows Tesla's FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents  —  Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Researchers claim their model can detect academic writing from ChatGPT with 99%+ accuracy at the document level and 92% accuracy at the paragraph level  —  Researchers say their algorithm can detect scientific writing by robots with surprising accuracy.  —  Scientists from the University …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Apple Vision Pro's biggest potential advantage will be the ability for developers to easily plug their iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS using familiar tools  —  Apple's developers already have the tools they need to create apps for the system. … It has dual 4K displays …
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
In a test, researchers find that 90%+ of 1,008 jokes generated by GPT-3.5 were not new but rather the same 25 jokes likely learned during the model's training  —  When tested, “Over 90% of 1,008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes.”  —  On Wednesday, two German researchers …
Bloomberg:
A comparison between US data and 5,100 Stable Diffusion-generated images related to job title and crime finds the tool amplifies gender and racial stereotypes  —  Stable Diffusion's text-to-image model amplifies stereotypes about race and gender — here's why that matters …

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