Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94
Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 2...
A researcher finds Verification settings in Twitter's app showing that the company may be working on letting Blue subscribers hide their blue checkmark
Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription.
A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users
The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change.
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023
Ahead Of Twitter's Looming Verification Rollback Muskaan Saxena / TechRadar : Twitter's blue-check doomsday date is set and it's no April Fool's joke Megan Ellis / MakeUseOf : Twitter to Start Removin...
A federal judge decides in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending program
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OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers' personal info
OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.
Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but forcing it to divest its US operations could undermine TikTok's ability to fight adversarial threats
from the when-government-demands-backfire dept — Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting …
Twitter Blue rolls out globally, but the subscription service is still missing promised features like prioritized ranking in conversations and half as many ads
Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM which the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford's Alpaca model
Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space …
Sources: Microsoft threatens to cut rivals' Bing search index access if they use it for their AI chat tools and warns at least two customers of violating terms
Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines …
In his first visit to China since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple's “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid Apple's moves to diversify from the country
Chief executive's visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US
Sensor Tower: Twitter Blue had 385K+ subscribers on iOS and Android and made $11M on mobile in its first three months, including ~$8M from 246K US subscribers
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An investigation finds US homeowners associations teaming up with police to install Flock Safety's license plate surveillance cameras, without telling residents
At a city council meeting in June 2021, Mayor Thomas Kilgore, of Lakeway, Texas, made an announcement that confused his community. LinkedIn: Gerry Kennedy . Tweets: @monsieuramerica , @georgiagee14 , ...
TikTok says Enes Freedom, a former NBA player critical of China, was banned for 12 days due to an error by US moderators before being reinstated on March 23
Nasdaq expects its custody services for digital assets to launch in Q2 2023, starting with bitcoin and ether, after announcing the project in September 2022
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The UK CMA narrows its probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard bid, saying new evidence “provisionally alleviates” concerns about UK game console supply
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Tether estimates the company will make $700M in profit in Q1, taking its excess reserves to back its USDT stablecoin to $1.66B, above $1B for the first time
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AI chatbots comparison test: ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited
The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT.
Sources: Fortra told GoAnywhere customers that their data was safe after a ransomware attack by the Clop gang, but two said they later received ransom demands
But then came the ransom demands. … Tweets: Keith / @kwm : Clop, a ransomware group known to use Cobalt Strike, claims to have breached 130+ companies via GoAnywhere GoAnywhere is a product by Fortra ...
An affidavit shows how the FBI arrested Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the alleged admin of BreachForums; the DOJ says it caused the forum to go offline
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A look at Amazon's efforts to offset its shipping costs by raising Prime subscription prices, increasing the minimum purchase free shipping threshold, and more
There is no such thing as free shipping. — Even so, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other online retailers who use so-called free delivery …
Sources: China released chip investor Chen Datong, detained in 2022 during a chip industry crackdown, as the country seeks experts to navigate western sanctions
Authoritarians are a wild ride.... Tweets: Dan Wang / @danwwang : If Beijing is releasing detained chip officials because it values their talents, then it has the air of Stalin rehabilitating purged g...
ChatGPT set off a VC rush to invest in generative AI startups; PitchBook says AI startup investments grew from $1.5B in 2020 to $5.9B+ since the start of 2022
LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry
scholarly, creative, economic, etc—are going to fall away, as people are freed to do things only limited by their imagination, or, more practically, by the old costs of producing software” https://twi...
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