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April 5, 2024, 5:55 AM

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Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:

Disney CEO Bob Iger says Disney+ will start cracking down on password sharing in June in some countries and more broadly in September — New York CNN — — Disney is curbing password sharing for its Disney+ streaming service as part of a larger effort to boost signups and revenue.

More: CNBC, The Verge, The Sun, Silicon Republic, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, Livemint, BetaNews, T3, Wall Street Journal, Ghacks, CNET, Business Today, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, CBC News, Dow Jones Newswires, Business Insider, CNBC, Lifewire, Tom's Guide, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, Forbes, PCMag, BGR, Neowin, GameSpot, MacDailyNews, The Hollywood Reporter, and Cord Cutters News

X: @stufflistings and @1alokjoshi

Forums: r/cordcutters, r/Piracy, and r/technology

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:

YouTube launches genre-specific YouTube TV Plans as lower-cost alternatives to the $82.99 monthly subscription; the Sports Plan is priced at $64.99 per month

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:

E. W. Scripps agrees to sell its multicast network Court TV to Law&Crime owner Jellysmack, as it seeks to reduce debt tied to its Ion and Katz acquisitions

Scott Feinberg / The Hollywood Reporter:

The Academy will no longer show Oscar-nominated films to members on big screens after the screenings drew “an average of five members” over the last years

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María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg:

CCData: crypto trading volume on centralized exchanges hit an all-time high of $9.1T in March, with spot trading volume of $2.94T, the highest since May 2021

More: CoinDesk, CoinGape, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Crowdfund Insider

Platformer:

A look at the rocky launch of Shine, the photo-sharing app developed by Marissa Mayer's startup Sunshine whose cofounder Enrique Muñoz Torres resigned this week

More: Business Insider. Threads: @crumbler, @kylie.robison, @reporterzoe, and @kylie.robison. LinkedIn: Enrique Munoz Torres

Brian Heater / TechCrunch:

How Meta's VR bet has played out a decade after its acquisition of Oculus; the company's metaverse division lost $42B between the end of 2020 and Q1 2024

More: CNET. Threads: @daveleebbg

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:

Filing: Meta rejects the FTC's bid to amend its 2020 privacy settlement, saying it voluntarily disclosed two Messenger Kids bugs and had no parent complaints

More: International Business Times, Reuters, Benzinga, and FTC

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross

More: Vimeo, Reuters, and Deadline. X: @quinnypig

Niamh Rowe / Fortune:

Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm

More: Ellipsis Labs, The Block, Cryptonews, New.blicio.us, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, and NFTgators

X: @buffalu__, @puntium, @jarxiao, @0xmert_, @0xshittrader, @ellipsis_labs, @jasonyanowitz, @cc2ventures, @frankieislost, @ellipsis_labs, @dj_d_sol, @dougfeagin, @0xdoug, @uriklarman, @avichal, @0xdirichlet, and @yashhsm. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:

OpenAI expands its Custom Model training program with “assisted fine-tuning”, letting organizations set up training data pipelines, evaluation systems, and more

More: OpenAI, SiliconANGLE, Maginative, ZDNet, The Hill, Voicebot.ai, The Verge, The Crypto Times, The Decoder, and VentureBeat

X: @altryne, @shyamalanadkat, @therealadamg, @stevenheidel, @weights_biases, @asenkut, @kvibhor, @openaidevs, @gdb, @openai, @danielgross, and @slessans. LinkedIn: Felix Wunderlich

Earlier Picks

Chris Vallance / BBC:

Google expands Search Generative Experience to the UK, after launching the feature in preview in the US in May 2023, starting with some logged-in users

More: Verdict, The Indian Express, GreekReporter.com, Root-Nation.com, CoinGape, TIME, ExtremeTech, NewsBytes, Fresno Bee, Search Engine Land, CoinXposure, and Business Insider

Jason Koebler / 404 Media:

Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor

More: Tech Xplore and New York Times

Mastodon: @clairegiordano@hachyderm.io, @mhoye@mastodon.social, and @doctormo@floss.social

X: @davidgerard, @iethics, @emanuelmaiberg, @samleecole, @iethics, @jbhall56, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox

Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, and r/Android

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:

Ripple plans to launch a stablecoin later in 2024 that is “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents”

More: Ripple, Finbold, CNBC, Bankless Times, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, PYMNTS.com, CoinGape, Milk Road, ZyCrypto, The Daily Hodl, CCN.com, Crypto Briefing, NFTgators, The Verge, CryptoPotato, NewsBTC, Watcher Guru, CryptoGlobe, Blockworks, The Block, and The Crypto Times

Bluesky: @robert.hill.cx. X: @bgarlinghouse, @ripple, @borissimo_, @joelkatz, @monicalongsf, @ddisparte, @vet_x0, @panosmek, @dizer_ym, @seanmcbride16, @x__anderson, @aakaashyadav, @haider, and @moonlamboio

Forums: r/XRP and r/Ripple

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

Cohere releases Command R+, an AI model for business customers the startup says performs competitively against OpenAI and others on “business-critical” tasks

More: Context by Cohere, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Maginative, Towards Data Science, The Crypto Times, BetaKit, and MSPoweruser

X: @aidangomez, @sullyomarr, @simonw, @cohere, @aidangomez, @max_nlp, @cohere, @aidangomez, and @aidangomez

LinkedIn: Robin Gainer, Vinod Devan, Rishit Dholakia, Meini Heuberger, Ellen Gilsenan-McMahon, Sudip Roy, Alexandre Matton, and Jesse Willman

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

A profile of hacker Alejandro Caceres, aka P4x, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively

More: BBC. Mastodon: @fraggle@octodon.social, @singe@chaos.social, and @mattburgess@infosec.exchange

X: @dinodaizovi, @awawawhoami, @a_greenberg, @a_greenberg, @a_greenberg, and @a_greenberg

Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/TrueReddit

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money

More: CNBC, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Android Authority, MobileSyrup, Android Headlines, Cointelegraph, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptonews, Entrepreneur, News.ng, US District Court, Southern District of New York, The Record, Wccftech, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, Invezz, BeInCrypto, Protos, Bitcoin Insider, The Block, Coinspeaker, Quartz, crypto.news, Blockworks, TechSpot, The Paypers, Todayq News, Milk Road, CoinXposure, DailyCoin, and CoinGape

X: @kent_walker, @joemerante, and @vidushi_law

LinkedIn: Kent Walker and Halimah DeLaine Prado

Forums: r/Scams and r/ethtrader

The Guardian:

Sources: Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza used Lavender, an AI system that identified 37,000 potential human targets based on their apparent links to Hamas

More: CNN, Al Jazeera, Caitlin Johnstone, BGR, The Verge, Fortune, Telegraph, +972 Magazine, Business Today, ScheerPost.com, Cryptopolitan, Gizmodo, FRANCE 24 English on YouTube, The Sun, The Times of Israel, Firstpost, Daily Kos, and The i Paper

Mastodon: @JapanProf@mastodon.social, @ErikJonker@mastodon.social, @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org, @shentonfreude@mastodon.online, @65dBnoise@mastodon.social, @Khrys@mamot.fr, @Khrys@mamot.fr, @yanone@typo.social, @anilmc@hachyderm.io, @bpettis@mastodon …, @makingarecord@friend.camp, @left_adjoint@tilde.zone, @seriouslyjeff@social.jeffl.es, @risottobias@tech.lgbt, @jesopo@chaos.social, @reedmideke@mastodon.social, @reedmideke@mastodon.social, and @Mer__edith@mastodon.world. Bluesky: @saddestrobots.bsky.social

X: @samfbiddle, @mer__edith, @kunktation, @samfbiddle, @tomgara, @rafaelshimunov, @docmattmoudi, @alonso_gd, @tomgara, @lana_tatour, @jehadabusalim, @peterharling, @heerjeet, @sturgeons_law, @nickkristof, @psychicyogamat, @mehdirhasan, @btselem, @paulbernaluk, @dirkmoses, @spectrathegame, @pixelatedboat, @mitchprothero, @bonzerbarry, @ugarles, @hamzamsyed, @provisionalidea, @masadfrost, @bcmerchant, @arictoler, @brian_castner, @heidykhlaaf, @evanhill, @evanhill, @mrjoncryer, @thegreenebj, @madamajab, @jeremiahdjohns, @hermit_hwarang, @mer__edith, @rohantalbot, @schock, @charlie533080, @arictoler, @arictoler, @jakegodin, @adhaque110, @yanisvaroufakis, @yuval_abraham, @bcmerchant, @robertdownen_, @ggreenwald, @elivalley, @evanhill, @rosen_br, @rnaudbertrand, @evkontorovich, @tksshawa, @rnaudbertrand, and @972mag. LinkedIn: Ana Brandusescu