The FDIC plans to sell Signature Bank's deposits to Flagstar Bank, excluding those in its digital banking business, some loans, and Signature's 40 branches
A subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (NYCB.N) has entered into an agreement with U.S. regulators to purchase deposits and loans …
As concerns over Tesla's Full Self-Driving rise, former employees blame Elon Musk's erratic leadership, cost-cutting measures like removing radar, and more
Tesla's campaign to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle has suffered amid mounting safety concerns — and the boss's Twitter distraction
An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more
“This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023.
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000 jobs in January
- Amazon will lay off 9,000 more employees in the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday.
Microsoft plans to launch a mobile app store for games as soon as 2024 if the Activision bid is cleared and the EU's DMA rules for app stores come into effect
Xbox boss Phil Spencer says store could launch as soon as next year if regulators clear Activision Blizzard deal
Source: in his upcoming testimony to Congress on March 23, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to reveal TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020
When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal data that suggests …
Researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their “artistic IP” by adding almost imperceptible “perturbations” to their art
Generative art's style mimicry, interrupted — The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists …
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections
A major lawsuit against the nonprofit Internet Archive threatens the future of all libraries. Chrisfreeland / Internet Archive Blogs : Here's how to participate in Monday's oral arguments Tweets: @fig...
Netflix plans to launch 40 games in 2023 and has a further 70 in development, after releasing 55 titles since adding games in November 2021
Netflix has announced that it has 40 games slated for launch this year and has 70 in development with its partners.
India cuts mobile internet for a second day in Punjab, a state with ~27M people, as officials try to catch a Sikh separatist and curb “fake news” and unrest
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Early screenshots show Microsoft is testing a non-custodial Ethereum crypto wallet built into Edge that lets users send and receive cryptocurrencies and NFTs
The FDIC says it will break up SVB and hold two auctions for its traditional deposits unit and its private bank, after failing to find a buyer last week
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Monday decided to break up Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and hold two separate auctions …
Researchers detail “aCropalypse”, a bug in Google Pixel's Markup fixed in March 2023, where some edited screenshots can be retroactively unredacted or uncropped
Screenshot recovery utility Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : Pixel vulnerability that hits the Markup screenshot editing tool is potentially dangerous Emma Roth / The Verge : Google Pixel exploit reverses...
Research: ByteDance's video editing app CapCut, launched in 2020, has 200M+ MAUs and 400M+ downloads in 2022, up 43% YoY, surpassing TikTok in recent weeks
Let's sift through the noise. Tweets: Martijn Rasser / @martijnrasser : CapCut says in its privacy policy that to provide services, it collects content such as photos and videos that users upload, as ...
A look at four publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which hinges on defining the legal ownership of ebooks, ahead of oral arguments on March 20
Replika and Character.AI now block adult content in their chatbots, angering users who became deeply involved with them, some considering themselves married
After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home.Tweets:@carnage4life,@lazydaizgaming,@alondra,@gregbensinger,@fabioc...
OpenAI's GPT-4 failed a CFA Institute exam, the finance world's self-styled toughest test, scoring eight out of 24, despite the answers being available online
Artificial intelligence versus arbitrary irrelevance — It's an algorithmic mystery box that inspires fear, awe and derision in equal measure. Tweets: @bgurley , @mbrookerhk , @robinwigg , and @zerob...
China's anti-graft watchdog begins to investigate ex-Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo, the latest executive to be ensnared in its chip corruption dragnet
China's top anti-graft watchdog has begun an investigation of former Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo …
Runway, which helped create Stable Diffusion, announces its Gen 2 system to generate three second snippets of video from prompt words, available via a waitlist
Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images. For months, services like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion …
A look back at PLATO, an educational computer system released in 1960 that some consider a precursor to graphics, touchscreens, messaging apps, games, and more
Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier reached ~1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company fulfilled its forecasted deliveries to advertisers
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An interview with Microsoft CVP of Design and Research Jon Friedman about the company's vision for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Bing AI lessons, AI ethics, and more
How open source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping debunk claims
Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
Sources: in 2021 the phone of a US and Greek national who worked on Meta's security and trust team was infected with Predator spyware, from an Athens-based firm
Artemis Seaford, a dual U.S.-Greek national, was targeted with a cyberespionage tool while also under a wiretap by the Greek spy agency … Tweets: @jsrailton , @runasand , @citizenlab , @matinastevis ,...
Some investors are concerned that SVB's collapse and its US government rescue, after Silicon Valley investors' lobbying, could lead to tougher tech regulation
Taiwan's Ministry of Finance data: chip exports to China and Hong Kong fell 31.3% YoY in February, the worst decline since 2009 and above January's 27.1% fall
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Sources give an overview of the FTC's Amazon pursuit: considering challenging the $1.7B iRobot deal, retail antitrust case, dark pattern investigation, and more
The Biden administration is planning to take action soon on at least three of its half-dozen investigations of Amazon …
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