Twitter cuts off API access to Movetodon, a useful tool for finding and following one's Twitter followers on Mastodon; it's unclear if the tool broke any rule
from the trying-to-lock-the-barn-doors dept — People keep claiming that Mastodon isn't scaring Elon Musk …
A federal jury in San Francisco finds Elon Musk not liable in a Tesla shareholder suit over 2018 tweets in which he said he was considering taking Tesla private
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk was found not liable in a shareholder class-action suit stemming from 2018 tweets in which he said he was considering taking Tesla private.
The LockBit ransomware gang claims ION Trading UK paid a ransom after the group's cyberattack on the software firm upended derivatives trading around the world
The hacking group behind the attack on ION Trading UK — the software firm that was struck by a cyberattack earlier this week …
Utah lawmakers are fast tracking two bills that would require social media companies to age verify users, grant parents access to their kids' accounts, and more
The evidence-free moral panic over social media keeps getting stupider, and when things get particularly stupid about the internet …
Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of killing many useful bots, like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, @_weather_bot_, and more
we're talking earthquake alerts, severe weather alerts, tornado alerts. https://twitter.com/... Anthony DeRosa / @anthony : Not all bots are bad, in fact some of them are wonderful and they'll all be ...
Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn't give details
People don't engage with content they agree with. — Getting ratioed is the way to make money, lol. Toni Aittoniemi / @gimulnautti@mastodon.green : @Techmeme “Reply now to receive a special treat fro...
A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of Trump but writes one about Biden; sources: OpenAI doesn't know why
Even ChatGPT's creators can't figure out why it won't answer certain questions — including queries about former U.S. President Donald Trump …
After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people's eye surgery, critics raise questions about “stunt philanthropy” and “charity porn”
Is it stunt philanthropy or self-funded charity in the YouTube age? — A YouTuber just helped treat 1,000 people with blindness and low vision.
Q&A with Sam Altman on AI systems replacing search engines, Microsoft's OpenAI investments, how artificial general intelligence may “break capitalism”, and more
In a rare interview, OpenAI's CEO talks about AI model ChatGPT, artificial general intelligence and Google Search.
Amazon reports content spending up 28% YoY to $16.6B in 2022, of which ~$7B went to originals, live sports, and licensed third-party content included with Prime
The expenses related to video and music content were up 28 percent from 2021, when the tech giant spent $13 billion.
ChatGPT testing shows the chatbot struggles with basic arithmetic questions, confidently offering entertaining but wrong answers, an inherent problem with LLMs
‘Large language models’ supply grammatically correct answers but struggle with calculations — Cheating With ChatGPT: Can an AI Chatbot Pass AP Lit?
Alphabet, Amazon, and other tech firms begin 2023 by championing austerity after facing the worst year on Wall Street in 2022 since the 2008 financial crisis
After years of expansion and billions in profits, Big Tech is pulling back from its famously lavish spending as a long boom finally ends.
A US judge denies the FTC's bid to stop Meta's acquisition of Within, rejecting the regulator's concerns of the deal reducing competition in the AR/VR market
A judge on Friday released a ruling denying the Federal Trade Commission's request to stop Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) …
Inside ChatGPT's rushed launch, as some OpenAI executives feared rivals upstaging them; Sam Altman worries about a regulatory backlash and inflated expectations
Kevin Roose / New York Times :
Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without receiving a ransom
At first the attack on Ireland's public-health system fell into a depressingly familiar pattern.
Flipkart-owned Indian fashion retailer Myntra is penalizing users who return items too often; studies: 25% to 40% of clothes sold online in India are returned
Across India, e-commerce giants like Myntra and Flipkart are canceling free returns to boost profits. — • BENGALURU, INDIA Tweets: @nilchristopher , @alexgonzor , @webaficionado , and @anupkaphle Tw...
Activision Blizzard settles with the SEC for $35M, over claims of violating federal whistleblower protections and not maintaining adequate disclosure standards
Activision Blizzard gave separation agreements to departing employees that the SEC says violated a whistleblower protection rule. They required employees to disclose whether the SEC reached out for in...
Internal messages: Twitter wants to charge brands $1,000 per month to keep their gold verification badges, plus $50 per month for each affiliated account
Twitter is likely to charge brands $1000 a month to keep their gold verification badge, plus $50 a month for each affiliated account …
Background check services TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate confirm a data breach after hackers leak a 2019 database allegedly containing the info of 20M users
PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach …
Tim Cook estimates iPhone revenue would have grown “absent the supply constraints”, currency fluctuations were a challenge, and that layoffs are a “last resort”
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies
Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies. Tweets: @martinsfp , @pt , @gabor , @stevenlevy , and @ch...
As the spat between Binance and WazirX escalates, Binance invites the Indian crypto exchange to withdraw its assets held in Binance wallets after February 3
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk :
Global smartphone shipments declined by 12% YoY to 1.2B units in 2022, the lowest since 2013; Apple captured 48% revenue and 85% profit share of the market
Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research :
Court document: a Colombian judge used ChatGPT to ask legal questions about a case and included its responses in his decision, to save time writing the judgment
Janus Rose / VICE :
Amazon Q4: revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and employees down 4% to 1.54M; stock is down 5%+
Up 28% from 2021 Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Amazon Revenues Up 9 Percent to $149.2 Billion in Q4 Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Amazon reports content spending up 28% YoY to $16.6B in 2022, of...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocks Wikipedia in the country, saying the site failed to remove “sacrilegious” content within a 48-hour deadline
Kamran Haider / Bloomberg :
Sources: Google invested ~$300M in Anthropic for a ~10% stake, making the generative AI startup use the money on Google Cloud, echoing Microsoft's OpenAI deal
Sources: the FTC is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, though the timing remains in flux, and is also scrutinizing Amazon Prime's bundling practices
Onehouse, a cloud data lake service based on the Apache Hudi platform, raised a $25M Series A led by Addition and Greylock, bringing its total funding to $33M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
An analysis of 68 news domains: 45 ranked worse in UK Google search results in January 2023 vs. January 2022; those with non-news content saw the biggest gains
https://guardian.com/ lost the most visibility points over the year (125) - a relative fall of 36% as its score dropped from 351 to 266. https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Valencia-based Jeff, which provides a frontend app, data insights, and other tools to manage businesses, raised a $90M Series C, split ~50/50 in equity and debt
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / Sifted :
Germany-based Sdui, whose software provides communication and diary tools for schools, raised an $18M Series A extension, bringing total Series A to €25M
Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu :
Treasury Prime, which offers APIs to help businesses integrate with banks, raised a $40M Series C led by BAM Elevate, bringing its total raised to about $73M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ycombinator Tweets: @ycombinator : Congrats to @jimbru, Chris, and the entire @treasuryprime team on the $40M Series C! Treasury Prime (YC W18) gives business...
LeafLink, whose e-commerce marketplace connects 3,700+ cannabis brands with 8,400+ cannabis retailers, raised a $100M Series D co-led by CPMG, L2, and Nosara
Dan Primack / Axios :
Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group is working with AI startups Jasper and Nota to help produce articles from its own content library and pitch journalists
Italy's privacy watchdog orders San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker Replika to stop processing local users' data over concerns its tech poses risks to minors
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Neko Health, founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek and Watty founder Hjalmar Nilsonne, comes out of stealth and plans to build an AI-powered full body scanner
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