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Google's Bard announcement tweet included a GIF of the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer to a question about the James Webb Space Telescope; GOOG drops 7%+ — Google published an online advertisement in which its much anticipated AI chatbot BARD delivered inaccurate answers.
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Twitter lets US Blue subscribers tweet up to 4,000 characters; in timelines, longer tweets will be capped at 280 characters and have an option to “Show more” — need more than 280 characters to express yourself? we know that lots of you do... and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to Tweet everything all at once. we get that. so we're introducing longer Tweets! you're gonna want to check this out. tap this 👉... https://twitter.com/...
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The CISA publishes a recovery script for the ESXiArgs ransomware that encrypted files at 3,800+ organizations across the US, France, Italy, and other countries — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a process for recovering files for organizations affected …
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Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has heard “rumors” the SEC wants to “get rid of” crypto staking for retail investors, which “would be a terrible path for the US” — Coinbase Global Inc.'s head Brian Armstrong escalated his war of words with the Securities …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases the first Android 14 developer preview, for Pixel phones, offering multi-device experiences, customization features, security changes, and more — Google announced the Android 14 Developer Preview today. The February release was expected and matches last year, while it comes as 13 QPR2 is still in beta.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Many Twitter users reported issues on February 8, from outages to not being able to tweet except by scheduling or via an API; the issues seem to be almost fixed — Shortly after Twitter launched its huge increase in max character count to 4,000 today, many users aren't able to tweet this afternoon.
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| David Friend / Canadian Press: |
Netflix rolls out its long-anticipated password sharing rules in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain; other countries will be added in the next few months — Under new rules, premium and standard account holders will be given option to add extra members for $7.99 per month| Brian Fung / CNN: |
NetBlocks: Turkish ISPs restore Twitter access, limited after an earthquake, after officials “remind Twitter of its obligations” on takedowns and disinformation — Access to Twitter has been restored in Turkey, according to internet monitoring company Netblocks.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, using AI to improve search as a product, competition with Google, the Prometheus model, and more — I'm coming to you from Microsoft's campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: Apple names Carol Surface as its first chief people officer, shifting human resources responsibilities away from SVP of Retail Deirdre O'Brien — Apple Inc. is hiring its first chief people officer and shifting human resources duties from its head of retail … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google's AI demo in Paris paled in comparison to Microsoft's “new Bing” event, highlighting why Google needs to widely release its ChatGPT rival service Bard — Google demoed its latest advances in AI search at a live event in Paris on Wednesday — but the features pale in comparison …
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| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA finds Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition would harm competition in the UK's gaming market, suggests and asks Microsoft for remedies — Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will harm competition in the UK gaming market … | @twitterdev: |
Twitter's free APIs will work until February 13, when the company will launch a low-usage $100/month plan and a limited free plan and deprecates its Premium API — We have been busy with some updates to the Twitter API so you can continue to build and innovate with us. We're excited to announce an extension of the current free Twitter API access through February 13. Here's what we're shipping then 🧵
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Clay Bavor, a Google veteran of 18 years who recently led the company's AR/VR efforts, leaves to start an AI company with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor — For the past few years, Google's AR and VR efforts have been led by Clay Bavor. The longtime executive is now set to leave the company next month.
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| Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $380M, net loss down 61% YoY to $166M, MAUs down by 0.8M QoQ to 11.4M, and full-year revenue down 25% YoY to $1.36B — Robinhood Markets Inc (HOOD.O) reported a 5% rise in fourth-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as interest income surged at the online brokerage …
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Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too — Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives.Sponsor Posts
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