Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation would be provided publicly
The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …
CI/CD service CircleCI says hackers infected an employee's laptop and used 2FA credentials to breach the company's systems and steal its data in December 2022
CircleCI's chief technology officer said malicious hackers infected one of their engineer's laptops and stole elevated account privileges …
Researchers detail reproducibility issues in health care AI; a 2021 review found health-related ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures
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Adding touchscreens to Macs is paramount to Apple's goals of unifying software and services on its devices and keeping up with a younger, touch-first generation
Apple's upcoming move to Macs with touch screens is about the future of its user base. Also: The company kicks …
How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts impacted large markets outside the US, like India, with more hate speech, and Japan, with less political trending topics
With 75 percent of its audience outside the U.S. and Canada, the impact of Elon Musk's moderation cuts has been great elsewhere Mastodon: @MsAnthropist@sfba.social and @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange Twe...
How Finland, ranked first of 41 European countries in a media literacy survey, teaches students to spot misinformation on social media, starting in preschool
The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Here's what other countries can learn from its success. Tweets: @cendemtech , @slwalter123 , @enjig , @manoj_naandi , @ivana...
An FTX lawyer told Delaware's bankruptcy court that SBF ordered FTX co-founder Gary Wang to open a secret backdoor to let Alameda borrow $65B of clients' money
- Bankruptcy lawyers said Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda had access to a $65 billion credit line from FTX.
Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% to 538.4B units in 2022, the first annual drop since at least 2004, after growing 17% in 2021 and 22% in 2020
China's imports of integrated circuits declined in 2022 for the first time in almost two decades.
Hackers have begun exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used web hosting interface
Patch NOW Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Exploitation of Control Web Panel Vulnerability Starts After PoC Publication TechRadar : Hackers target and exploit major Control Web Panel security flaw Msmas...
Two years after the Bahamas launched the world's first CBDC, the Sand Dollar's adoption has been sluggish as FTX's demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism
Before FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the Bahamas synonymous with the crypto crash, the country was known as a pioneer of digital fiat.
TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms expect age verification measures in the UK's Online Safety Bill to reduce user numbers, hitting ad revenue
UK's Online Safety Bill requires stronger age verification measures for platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat
A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more
Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. Tweets: @glenngabe , @billyperrigo , @paulroetzer , @time , @eileentso , @jeffnesbit , @sarthakgh , @deepmind , a...
A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay park salaries and for infrastructure projects
Congo's Virunga — was broke. Then they built a hydropower plant in the park and started mining Bitcoin. This led to earnings of $150K a month and offset tourism income. https://www.technologyreview.co...
Amazon is testing a ~$12/year Prime Lite in India with free two-day shipping and ad-supported Prime Video in standard definition; Prime costs ~$18/year in India
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SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the US worth ~$200B since 2020, as the US realizes that chips are now as central to modern economies as oil
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @caitleg , @greg_ip , and @jchengwsj Tweets: Caitlin Legacki / @caitleg : Extremely thorough look at the importance of CHIPS over the next 50 years, including how @SecRa...
Emails: Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad spending up to $250K, if the $500K of ads are run by February 28, a period that includes the Super Bowl
I decided long ago (for better or for worse) … Tweets: Susan Rinkunas / @sueonthetown : Oh yes because the reason brands left is that Twitter ads were too expensive https://twitter.com/... Lou Paskali...
China's central bank says Ant Group and 13 other firms “have basically completed business rectification” under financial regulators' guidance and supervision
Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group and 13 other platform companies “have basically completed business rectification” … Tweets: @briantycangco Tweets: Brian Tycangco / @briantycangco : Cap hi...
How popular tech podcast All-In, with hosts Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and David Friedberg, gives some insight into Elon Musk's Twitter
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Strava subscribers say the rollout of the company's first price hike in over a decade, impacting nine regions, has been unnecessarily convoluted and confusing
Victoria Song / The Verge :
Meta is vacating a Seattle office and a Bellevue office, and Microsoft doesn't plan to renew a Seattle office lease, amid job cuts and remote work's popularity
and softness in the office market here — Facebook and Microsoft are vacating buildings in Seattle and Bellevue. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...
Google Cloud unveils an AI tool designed to help retailers track their inventory by analyzing videos and images from ceiling cameras, robots, and store workers
As technology continues to advance, the e-commerce industry is also rapidly evolving. Google Cloud : Google Cloud Unveils New AI Tools for Retailers Anirban Ghoshal / CIO.com : Google Cloud for Retail...
Three ex-employees say SoundHound laid off ~200 people, or nearly 50% of its staff, offering two weeks of severance, paid only if the company raises more money
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo :
A San Francisco federal judge rules that five laid-off Twitter workers must pursue severance claims in individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit
Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg :
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