First Citizens agrees to buy the commercial banking business of Silicon Valley Bank from the FDIC including all deposits and loans
First Citizens BancShares Inc. agreed to buy Silicon Valley Bank which was seized by regulators following a run on the lender.
Filing: some Twitter source code was leaked by user “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” on GitHub, which removed the code to comply with Twitter's DMCA notice on March 24
The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.
Sources: Apple last week demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite
Apple's push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch.
Eight current and former Apple employees share their concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, its utility, and the unproven AR/VR market
Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan says crypto does not “bring anything useful for society” and other processing power uses like AI are more worthwhile than crypto mining
Tech chief says the development of chatbots is a more worthwhile use of processing power than crypto mining
The French government bans TikTok and all other recreational apps from staff phones, claiming none have sufficiently robust security for government devices
Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action — The government of France has banned TikTok - and all other recreational apps - from phones issued to its employees.
Sources: the Hong Kong arms of three Chinese state banks have reached out to offer services to crypto businesses in recent months, despite a mainland crypto ban
Crypto firms rushing into Hong Kong after the city opened its doors to the battered sector are finding a surprising source of potential support: China's state-owned banks.
Sources: Jack Ma returned to China after more than a year; sources: China Premier Li Qiang urged Ma to return since late 2022 to allay private sector fears
Alibaba (9988.HK) founder Jack Ma has returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed as reflecting …
The CFTC sues Binance, CEO CZ, and an ex-chief compliance officer, calling Binance's compliance efforts “a sham” and corporate structure “intentionally opaque”
Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has filed …
Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M in Jan. 2022, and says it has rebuilt Teams to be twice as fast, rolling out to Windows' Public Preview program
Teams, Microsoft's Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry.
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company now holds ~$4.14B worth of BTC
- MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers. — MicroStrategy scooped …
Ammo maker Nammo says its growth is hit by a TikTok data center using all spare electricity, as energy demand from data centers and others grows in the Nordics
Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity
Kaspersky: some versions of Pinduoduo, suspended by Google from its app store, exploited Android vulnerabilities to install backdoors and gain user data access
Security researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have identified and outlined potential malware in versions …
Sonos Era 300 review: best spacial audio from any speaker, flexible connectivity options, but poor Sonos app UX and quality of spatial audio varies by track
Chris Welch / The Verge :
A mid-March Midjourney update seemingly fixed one of the AI image generator's major failings: its inability to depict lifelike human hands with five fingers
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post :
A look at OBNBrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' accounts, mainly on Instagram, and extorting for “reactivation”
https://www.propublica.org/... … @craigsilverman@mastodon.social : OBN, a mysterious fraudster, says he made hundreds of thousands of dollars by exploiting Instagram's security gaps. — He's eluded M...
Porn creators in Germany face fines and imprisonment as regulators use AI to spot porn not protected by age verification tech on social media and messaging apps
Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography. Creators face fines and potential prison sentences. Tweets: @mikestabile and @gadgetlab Tweets: Mike Stabile...
Activist investor Elliott Management decides not to nominate its own directors to Salesforce's board, citing the company's FY23 results, growth plans, and more
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant, adding the ability to generate whiteboards using text prompts, provide recaps of meetings, and more
Emma Roth / The Verge :
A look at Modulate's ToxMod and other AI-based tools that help gaming companies moderate voice chats in online games, amid concerns of accuracy and user privacy
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal : LinkedIn: Rob Schoeppe . Tweets: @saraheneedleman , @jeffjarvis , @pavtalk , @wsj , @speechlyapi , @gunraidersvr , and @saraheneedleman LinkedIn: Rob Schoep...
Huawei says it has built tools to design chips as advanced as 14nm, about four generations behind the latest available, to help Chinese firms replace US tech
Bloomberg :
A profile of Atlanta-based Yellow Card, Africa's largest centralized crypto exchange, which raised $57M and facilitated $1.75B in transactions since 2019
After India's legal orders this week, Twitter blocked the tweets of 122 users, including reporters and politicians, from Indian users; it used to push back more
https://restofworld.org/... Lauren Weinstein / @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org : Instead of pushing back as #Twitter used to do, Elon now bends over for India's requests to block accounts. - http...
Alex Szapiro, co-head of SoftBank's nearly $8B Latin America fund, says he is confident about securing extra capital from its parent despite a ~$900M paper loss
Michael Pooler / Financial Times :
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