ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16
The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary” — Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software …
Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark
Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter's privacy and data practices.
Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”
The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.
The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will
BuzzFeed isn't ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense. — Pranav Dixit
Japan plans to restrict exports of 23 types of chip manufacturing equipment starting July 2023, amid the US push to curb China's ability to make advanced chips
Japan's government on Friday said it plans to restrict exports of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment …
Twitter launches its Verified Organizations program, which allows companies to get a verified checkmark for $1,000/month and their affiliates for $50/month each
How Apple's standalone classical music app fixes the genre's biggest problem of search and discovery with better metadata created by Dutch company Primephonic
Forget the metaverse. The future is metadata. It's how the world's most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.
Researchers say hackers have compromised the VoIP desktop client of 3CX's Phone System, used by 600K+ companies and 12M+ DAUs, in an ongoing supply chain attack
https://www.3cx.com/... Any vendor of software and services that pull in code from NPM, PIP, RubyGems etc … Eitan Erez : This supply chain attack started unfolding not long ago as 3CX VOIP desktop cl...
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turn out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal
I marvel the technology. But. … Kyle Dent : An open letter calls for companies to pause building AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to “profound risks to society and humanity.” … Peter Peng : Co...
Insiders say crypto firms are struggling to access banking services and facing lengthy application procedures amid bank collapses and regulatory scrutiny
US banks, already hesitant to work with crypto customers, are now even warier of providing services to the industry after a string …
Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users' Office 365 data
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Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models starting this week, regulation, and more
“Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly."
Microsoft is exploring new ad experiences in Bing Chat, like citations, and sharing ad revenue with “partners whose content contributed to the chat response”
and it's likely a good thing. Here's why Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog : Microsoft is ‘Exploring’ Ads within Bing Chat Mashable : Oh great, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot is getting more ads Barry ...
China launches a cybersecurity review of products sold in the country by US memory chip manufacturer Micron, citing national security risks
China's cyberspace regulator will conduct a cybersecurity review on products sold in China by U.S. memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology (MU.O), the regulator said on Friday.
Sources: India is looking for alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, and is seeking to spend between $16M and $120M
Modi government seeks alternatives to software made by NSO Group following snooping scandals around the world Tweets: @yusufdfi , @advait_px , @apar1984 , @meenakandasamy , @langamahesh , @rezhasan , ...
South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country's semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities
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Huawei reports 2022 revenue up 0.9% YoY to ~$93.4B and net profit down 69% YoY to ~$5.18B, its biggest drop since 2011, amid pandemic controls and US sanctions
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Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers
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Sources: YMTC expects to begin production at a new chip plant in H2 2024 by relying more on domestic suppliers, boosting China's self-sufficiency efforts
Memory-chip maker to rely on local equipment suppliers for 2024 manufacturing plans — Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp … Tweets: @chadbown Tweets: Chad P. Bown / @chadbown : YMTC, China's leading me...
Agreena, which uses AI-based monitoring by satellite imagery to let farmers earn carbon credits, raised a €46M Series B, after a €20M Series A in 2022
The startup helps European farmers reduce carbon emissions and trade in carbon credits — While fingers are being pointed …
Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more
BuzzFeed quietly started publishing fully AI-generated SEO-driven travel posts by non-editorial staff on March 14; a spokesperson calls the posts an experiment
Apple wins a US appeal to uphold a patent tribunal's ruling over two of VirnetX's VPN patents that invalidated a $502.8M patent infringement verdict from 2020
but one verdict awaits United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit : VirnetX v. Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Apple MacDailyNews : Apple wins U.S. appeal over patents in $502 million Virne...
Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba's strategy and engineered the company's split from overseas, telling executives it would make Alibaba nimble
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @newley and @jingyanghk Tweets: Newley Purnell / @newley : Jack Ma's return in recent days followed repeated outreaches over recent months from Beijing, through retired ...
Audible is “conducting limited testing” of ads in audiobooks; non-members may hear up to eight ads in 24 hours for “access to a limited set of Audible titles”
Midjourney ends free trials, citing “extraordinary demand” and “abuse”, after fake images of Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis wearing a coat went viral
Invite-only Twitter alternative T2 plans to let Twitter users who are about to lose their checkmark on April 1 to carry over the verification to its service
Pathmatics: the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent just $7.6M on ads in the past two months, down 89% from the $71M spent from September to October 2022
Synopsys claims to launch the first full-stack AI-powered EDA suite that covers all stages of chip design, including architecture, design, and manufacturing
env0, which develops Infrastructure as Code workflow automation and management software, raised $18.1M led by Venture Guides, bringing Series A total to $35.1M
Meir Orbach / CTech : Mastodon: @jay@cuthrell.com Mastodon: Jay Cuthrell / @jay@cuthrell.com : @Techmeme Seeing investments in companies that bring convergence thinking and greater abstraction to Inf...
Seattle-based Fixie, a cloud service for helping developers integrate any LLM into their applications, raised a $17M seed led by Redpoint Ventures
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