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Friday, March 31, 2023
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
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https://ift.tt/rvgmY2J Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, w...
LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and some other celebrities with millions of followers say they won't pay for Twitter Blue (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
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https://ift.tt/7pdJ69z Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and some other cel...
Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
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March 31, 2023
https://ift.tt/0KgiN9T Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt : Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should b...
Filings: BlackRock cut the valuation of India's most valuable startup Byju's from $22B to $11.5B and Invesco cut Swiggy's valuation from $10.7B to ~$8B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
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https://ift.tt/tzmF2CY Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Filings: BlackRock cut the valuation of India's most valuable startup Byju's f...
Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials' accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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https://ift.tt/BhI2uWJ Sara Fischer / Axios : Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top...
Thursday, March 30, 2023
South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country's semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities (Bloomberg)
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https://ift.tt/kMIlnfW Bloomberg : South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country's semiconductor industry by increasing tax...
Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers (Manya Saini/Reuters)
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https://ift.tt/5xDSCcd Manya Saini / Reuters : Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of Dec...
Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found it could have let anyone alter Bing search results and breach Office 365 accounts (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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https://ift.tt/mshw90p Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found it could have let any...
E3 2023 has reportedly been canceled (The Verge)
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https://ift.tt/jNgGQTE The Verge : E3 2023 has reportedly been canceled … Gaming's big summer show was set to return in person in Lo...
Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed orgs that have been previously verified from paying $1K/month for a checkmark (New York Times)
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https://ift.tt/nAsE7qZ New York Times : Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed orgs that have be...
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal (Chloe Xiang/VICE)
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https://ift.tt/ZPD8bc6 Chloe Xiang / VICE : Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others tu...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble (Jon Victor/The Information)
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https://ift.tt/xDdEmoa Jon Victor / The Information : Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project k...
WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
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https://ift.tt/Wm9zxqC Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal : WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dro...
How NetEase and Activision's 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China's tech crackdown, as filings show the deal was worth ~$750M in annual revenue (New York Times)
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https://ift.tt/e4wqLDx New York Times : How NetEase and Activision's 14-year partnership fell apart, in part due to China's tech ...
EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)
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https://ift.tt/DsNMRw4 Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incu...
As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about issues like potential abuses and hallucination (Financial Times)
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Docs: investments in 4chan include $5.6M from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura and his company plus $2.4M from Japanese company Good Smile, which makes toys for Disney (Justin Ling/Wired)
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https://ift.tt/uh1roq4 Justin Ling / Wired : Docs: investments in 4chan include $5.6M from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura and his company plus ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Micron reports Q2 revenue of $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., down from $7.79B YoY, and a record net loss of $2.31B due to an inventory write-down of $1.43B (Jeremy C. Owens/MarketWatch)
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https://ift.tt/g4LjqQF Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch : Micron reports Q2 revenue of $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., down from $7.79B YoY, and a ...
A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation over its Play Store policies (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
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https://ift.tt/frkOJYK Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg : A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of ...
Google plans to add a "Perspectives" carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an "About this author" feature for US English searches (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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https://ift.tt/zQECcZB Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top ...
Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
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https://ift.tt/2dh7Ys1 Andy Greenberg / Wired : Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud...
Filing: a California court grants Twitter's request to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
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https://ift.tt/3qPdIRn Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg : Filing: a California court grants Twitter's request to subpoena GitHub for informa...
Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later this year and will be the first "touch-enabled board" to run Teams Rooms on Windows (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
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March 28, 2023
https://ift.tt/fM3XmIg Zac Bowden / Windows Central : Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later this year an...
Review of 2K+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and surveillance systems to find and arrest scores of protesters and even prevent them from protesting (Lena Masri/Reuters)
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https://ift.tt/59xWtRu Lena Masri / Reuters : Review of 2K+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and surveillance systems to find ...