Twitter open sources a portion of its code on GitHub, including its algorithm for recommending tweets in For You but excluding its ad recommendation algorithm
As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code, including the algorithm it uses …
Twitter's For You code tracked metrics to categorize users as “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon” to keep algorithm tweaks from harming any group
Musk said he had no idea it was doing that! — Twitter has just released …
LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and other athletes and celebrities with millions of followers say they won't pay for Twitter Blue
April 1 is the dumbest day on the internet, and this year, it's not just because brands will try to prank you by selling “hot iced coffee.”
An investigation details how a Georgia man was wrongfully arrested based on a bad facial recognition match and other tech meant to make policing more effective
Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail …
Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, telling users to withdraw funds by April 30, but plans to continue to operate Bittrex Global
The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States.
Email: The White House will not pay for Twitter Blue for its staff; the White House and top officials' accounts like POTUS will likely maintain gray checkmarks
The White House will not pay to have its staff's official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by Axios.
A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after talking for six weeks with an AI chatbot that presented itself as an emotional being in the app Chai
The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models. — Chloe Xiang
Google confirms putting a 5M-file limit per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February 2023 without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug
The new file limit means you can't actually use the storage you buy from Google. — “Please delete 2 million files to continue using your Google Drive account.”
The NLRB says Activision Blizzard broke US labor law by illegally surveilling staff during a walkout and threatening to close Slack channels amid a union drive
Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI.O) violated U.S. labor law by illegally surveilling employees during a walkout and threatening …
GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches
otherwise, it's hard to imagine why GM would take such a radical step & risk alienating consumers by completely ditching Apple CarPlay GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help ht...
How researchers, including at Meta's AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition
Thought is ever-changing electrical patterns unconnected to individual neurons. Meta is working on a system to read your mind. Tweets: @hellohypercube , @hkanji , @wsj , @singularityumia , and @kevin...
Filing: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC on March 14, part of James Zhong's 50K stolen BTC, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk :
Sources: ByteDance generated $80B+ in 2022 revenue, up 30%+ YoY, after growing 70% between 2020 and 2021; TikTok represented ~12% of ByteDance's total revenue
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, generated more than $80 billion in annual revenue last year, up more than 30% … Tweets: @madhavchanchani and @anthony Tweets: Madhav Chanchani / @madhavchanchan...
Ocado wins AutoStore's lawsuit after the UK High Court invalidated two of AutoStore's warehouse automation patents for being publicly disclosed before filing
Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report :
How GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen abandoned his e-commerce push for the company to refocus on its ~4,400 stores, leading to GameStop's first profit in two years
GameStop has decided to hit the brakes on its eCommerce push to refocus on its 4,400 brick-and-mortar locations. … Tweets: Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : It's quite the comeback story, and it's a 180 from ...
A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution
The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia
Google updates Bard by incorporating some of its PaLM models to better answer math and logic questions and promises that coding capabilities are “coming soon”
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Binance plans to keep the $985M+ BUSD the company moved from its industry recovery fund, launched in November 2022 amid FTX's collapse, in its corporate wallets
Leo Schwartz / Fortune :
Sources: Lyft co-founders' departures followed months of staff worries as the company's market cap fell 85% to under $3.5B in two years, while Uber fared better
Wall Street Journal :
Sources: the FTC plans to file a complaint against Amazon alleging Alexa speakers violate COPPA by collecting data about kids under 13 without parental consent
Josh Sisco / Politico :
Roblox plans to hide advertisements from users 13 and younger, after nonprofit Truth in Advertising filed an FTC complaint in April 2022 against the company
Jeffrey Rousseau / GamesIndustry.biz :
Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat : Tweets: @timsweeneyepic Tweets: Tim Sweeney / @timsweeneyepic : Talking about the metaverse with @deantak. Lots of detailed future thoughts: https://venturebeat.com/...
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