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The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure — The House vote, set for Wednesday, is expected to mark the first time a chamber of Congress has greenlit legislation to ban a social media platform.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As TikTok faces a divestment bill in the US, a look at how lawmakers and the Biden administration quietly planned the legislation and caught TikTok by surprise — Executives of the video-messaging app thought they had fended off attacks. Behind the scenes, lawmakers and Biden officials were working to force its ban or sale.
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| CNBC: |
The EU Parliament approves the AI Act, voting 523 in favor and 46 against, despite competition fears; the Act, born in 2021, puts AI tech into risk categories — - The European Union Parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern … | Ali Winston / Wired: |
An analysis of 3M+ Discord and Telegram chats in 50+ groups finds a global network of thousands of violent predators who target, groom, and extort kids online — A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Spotify rolls out music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in beta in 11 markets, including Brazil, Italy, and the UK, available to Premium subscribers — Spotify is adding music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in some markets. They are tightly integrated with the company's music library …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google paid out $10M to 632 bug bounty researchers in 2023 via its Vulnerability Reward Program, including $3.4M for Android bugs; the highest bounty was $113K — Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Sora, set for release later in 2024, its training data, red-teaming Sora, working with the film industry, and more — In an exclusive interview with our columnist, CTO Mira Murati explains the company's new Sora AI video tool and how it plans to roll it out| Chris Eggertsen / Billboard: |
Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying “Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation” — The singer-songwriter previously had his music removed from the platform over what he deemed the spread of vaccine misinformation on the Joe Rogan Experience.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A US jury convicts Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov for operating crypto “tumbler” Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021, laundering 1.2M+ BTC worth ~$400M — Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021.| Timmy Shen / The Block: |
A study by the US Copyright Office and USPTO concludes that existing laws are sufficient to address NFT copyright concerns and there's no need to change IP laws — - The intellectual property authorities in the U.S. noted in an NFT study that the current laws are sufficient to address infringement concerns.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Memo: John Collison says Stripe is in “no rush” to go public and payments volume rose 25% YoY to $1T in 2023; source: Stripe hit $1B in net revenue in Q3 2023 — Payments company has become a Silicon Valley bellwether as its valuation has risen and fallen over the past few years| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Cerebras announces the WSE-3, a TSMC-made 5nm chip almost the size of a 12-inch wafer with 4T transistors, up from 2.6T in the WSE-2, for training AI models — The race for ever-larger generative artificial intelligence models continues to fuel the chip industry.
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| Patricia Hernandez / Polygon: |
How MrBeast dominates this ostentatious YouTube era, using a fast, frantic, and omnipresent editing style, as his videos slowly evolve to focus on storytelling — Jimmy Donaldson warped YouTube in his image — but YouTube is warping him back — In the fall of 2023, a clip ripped from a video …
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind details SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills to play like a human; SIMA trained on No Man's Sky, Goat Simulator 3, and other games — Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills so it plays more like a human instead of an overpowered AI that does its own thing.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky open sources its collaborative moderation tool Ozone and plans to let users run their own independent moderation services later this week — Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced today that it's open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets individuals and teams collaboratively review and label content on the network.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Tor releases WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship by hiding connections in plain sight — The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting the Tor network by hiding connections in plain sight.
More: Tor Project blog, ZDNet, and Cybernews.com
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Brave says after Apple added a default browser choice screen in the EU, daily installations of Brave on iOS jumped from ~8K to over 11K — Brave has seen a sharp increase in users installing its privacy-focused Brave Browser on iPhones after Apple introduced changes to adhere to the new European Digital Markets Act.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
How Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, who returned in 2015 during a leadership crisis, grew the website to $800M+ in annual revenue and 2,000 staff, up from 80 in 2015 — The site, a throwback to an earlier era of social media, is poised to go public as soon as next week. It hasn't been easy to reach this point.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Arm unveils its first Neoverse chips for self-driving cars, seeking to grow its non-smartphone revenue; the first vehicles are likely in four to five years — SoftBank-backed group targets automotive sector as it diversifies from declining smartphone market
More: SiliconANGLE and Arm Newsroom
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
RevenueCat survey of nearly 30K mobile subscription apps finds that only 17.2% of them will reach $1,000 in monthly revenue and only 3.5% will reach $10,000 — Investors know that most startups fail, but something that may be less understood is how few mobile apps actually make money.
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Forums: r/apple and r/androiddev
| Bloomberg: |
A February 21 hack of Change Healthcare has seized the US health care system for over three weeks, halting billions in payments; Change processes $2T per year — The Change Healthcare cyberattack brought the routine flow of billions of dollars in payments to a halt, putting medical practices under pressure nationwide| Financial Times: |
Docs: Nigeria, which has held two Binance execs since February during a crypto exchange crackdown, is pushing for data on Binance's top 100 local users and more — Authorities hold senior company executives for two weeks after crackdown on cryptocurrency websites
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