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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Nvidia confirms a “rare” manufacturing issue affecting under 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs, which are missing render units, the latest hitch since launch  —  Where did the ROPs go? … In the grand scheme of things, that doesn't sound like a lot of affected GPUs …
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn  —  Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has seen total outflows of over $5.5 billion after it suffered …
RT Watson / The Block:
Arkham says ZachXBT submitted proof that North Korea's Lazarus Group is behind Bybit's $1.5B hack, which is the largest single theft in crypto history  —  - Arkham Intelligence said Lazarus Group hacked Bybit for over $1.5 billion, citing information provided by online sleuth ZachXBT.
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world
Bloomberg:
Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens
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Forums: r/news, r/Buttcoin, r/technology, and Slashdot
Evan Ratliff / Wired:
A deep look at “the Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree  —  A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world.  For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist …
Enock Nyariki / Poynter:
A Maldita study of nearly 1.2M Community Notes on X published globally in 2024 shows that professional fact-checkers are among the three most cited sources  —  Notes that cite fact-checkers earn more trust from X users and combat misinformation faster  —  When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
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A look at India's Svamitva Scheme, which has digitally mapped out landholdings using drones in 300K+ villages as of January 2025, as concerns mount over errors  —  The Svamitva scheme seeks to use drones to map out landholdings in inhabited rural areas.  But so far, work has been opaque and riddled with errors.
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Some journalists are taking freelance jobs with AI training data companies like Scale AI, which recruit them for tasks such as fact-checking and prompt drafting  —  The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs).
Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
X is rolling out Grok-powered AI tools for advertisers to generate ready-to-use ad copy and imagery and provide campaign performance analysis  —  The company is betting on AI to help recover some of the millions it has shed in ad revenue over the last two years

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is working on revised terms for its WBD acquisition and has discussed making its offer all cash for the studios and streaming businesses

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Source and memos: Politico is laying off 3% of staff, plans buyout offers for Magazine staffers, and more, and plans a subscription service for investment pros

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Cade Metz / New York Times:
OpenAI says it found evidence of an AI-powered surveillance tool used by a Chinese security operation to identify anti-China posts on social media in the West
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do
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