The Australian Securities and Investments Commission cancels Binance Australia's derivatives license, giving the exchange until April 21 to close all positions
The exchange will close all of its customers' open derivatives positions by April 21. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission …
Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor
The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
macOS users find a copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper on every Mac running macOS Mojave or newer, as a sample document for a hidden “Virtual Scanner II” app
While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped …
Google says Play Store apps that allow account creation will soon need to let users “initiate account and data deletion from within the app and online”
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Google plans to restrict personal loan apps from accessing sensitive user data like photos, videos, and contacts from May 31, in response to predatory behavior
Google plans to restrict apps that offer loan to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos and contacts …
OPNX, an exchange for trading bankruptcy claims from 3AC founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davie, had just $13.64 in volume in its first 24 hours; OPNX's FLEX drops 27%+
- OPNX did not start off with a bang. — The exchange's token, FLEX, is down 27%, trading at $1.95.
Tests show that Twitter's “stay informed” labels, added in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia- or China-controlled media, no longer appear
Twitter is no longer taking steps to limit the reach of Chinese and Russian state-controlled media outlets, violating the social media platform's own stated policies.
OpenAI details its approach to AI safety, including evaluating AI systems, improving safeguards based on real-world use, protecting kids, and respecting privacy
OpenAI is committed to keeping powerful AI safe and broadly beneficial. We know our AI tools provide many benefits to people today.
Twitter adds a “US state-affiliated media” label to NPR's account, seemingly contradicting Twitter's previous policy that used NPR as an example of an exception
Matt Novak / Forbes :
An interview with Sundar Pichai on plans to add generative AI to Search, why chatbots do not threaten Google's Search ads business, efficiency drive, and more
‘More work left to do’ in efficiency drive, chief executive says — Google plans to add conversational artificial-intelligence features …
Report: Phil Harrison, the head of defunct cloud gaming service Google Stadia, left the company in January 2023; Harrison joined Google as a VP in January 2018
When Google launched Stadia, it put gaming industry veteran Phil Harrison at the lead. Now, it's been confirmed Harrison has left the company. Source: Insider .
Samsung announces a multi-year extension with AMD on their IP licensing agreement to bring multiple generations of AMD Radeon graphics to more Exynos SoCs
Samsung said on Thursday that it has signed a multi-year extension with AMD on their licensing agreement which gives …
Utah's bills restricting kids' social media use have galling civil-liberties concerns and hazy enforcement plans, and will likely face constitutional challenges
Most people seem to agree that something should be done to protect kids from what sure looks like an addictive product.
Lower-income US students feel they are at a disadvantage when pursuing Big Tech internships, as the selection process exhibits longstanding inequities in hiring
Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges. LinkedIn: Judith Spitz , Ruthe Farmer , and Michael Martin Tweets: @de...
A Mastodon user since 2018 details issues with the service despite decentralization's promise, like few Twitter friends, little diversity, and tone policing
I first joined Mastodon in 2018 (even though my old profile says 2016?), so I'd say I've seen a lot of its evolution. Mastodon: @evan@cosocial.ca , @reselsnark@mastodon.social , @musictraveler@mastodo...
Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras between 2019 and 2022 on internal messaging apps, including a child being hit by a car
Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”
MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on Android at Google, dies after being stabbed in San Francisco on April 4
I worked with Bob Lee when I first started working at Google. … Jenny Lee : Last night, I heard about Bob Lee's passing. I am completely devasted and heartbroken. — Bob was our Chief Product Office...
A look at Russia's tech industry decline, accelerated by the country's war against Ukraine, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation
Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family's belongings, canceled the lease … Tweets: @mashaborak , @phuenermund , and @eileenguo Tweets: Masha Borak / @ma...
Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations
After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe. Tweets: @sidhubaba , @carnage4life , @aggichr...
Sensor Tower: US advertising on TikTok grew by 11% in March despite the threat of a ban, with Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon, and Apple among the top spenders
Digital advertising on the Chinese-owned video app grew by 11% in March — Advertisers are increasing their spending on TikTok …
Meta releases its Segment Anything Model and Segment Anything 1-Billion mask dataset, hoping to help researchers with computer vision and object identification
and Meta is sharing the code Katie Paul / Reuters : Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images GitHub : Segment Anything — Meta AI Research, FAIR — [Paper] [Project] [Demo] [Data...
Research: Chinese officials and state media pushed back on a US TikTok ban on Twitter, echoing the Huawei defense, showing Beijing's investment in TikTok's fate
The company has tried to distance itself, but the information push shows just how deeply invested Beijing is in its fate.
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group plans to acquire US-based mobile game maker Scopely for $4.9B; Scopely was reportedly valued at $5.4B in October 2021
End of 2019 I made the big jump from Europe to the US. … Mike DeLaet : Congrats to all of my friends and former colleagues at Scopely for such a tremendous outcome! It was great to see a lot of you a...
US Census data: US chip imports rose 17% YoY to $4.86B in February 2023; Asia accounted for 83%, led by Malaysia at 20%, Taiwan at 15.1%, and Vietnam at 11.6%
Thailand, Vietnam, India and Cambodia have emerged as early winners this year as semiconductor production begins to move away …
A week before Ethereum's Shanghai and Capella upgrade, ether jumps ~6% in the past three days to ~$1,900, reaching a nine-month high and outperforming bitcoin
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
As Revolut and other “e-money” companies grow in the EU and the UK, customers complain of inadequate customer support, leading to a UK FCA warning in March 2023
Financial Times :
In a probe begun in October 2022, Ofcom finds Amazon, Microsoft, and Google may be harming UK cloud market competition and plans to refer the case to the CMA
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg :
Decentraland says 26K users attended its virtual fashion week in March 2023, down 76% YoY from 108K, despite Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas, and others sponsoring shows
RT Watson / The Block :
Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and other telecoms in South Africa scramble to stay online as the power grid crumbles, spending millions on alternative power sources
Nqobile Dludla / Reuters : Tweets: @nqobile_d Tweets: Nqobile Dludla / @nqobile_d : As the national power grid crumbles, leaving Africa's most advanced economy in the dark for up to 10 hours a day, m...
Source: Binance rejected buying Tron founder Justin Sun's Huobi stake due to Huobi's alleged ties to China; Sun's Huobi involvement is shrouded in secrecy
A look at Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022, and the FTX deal for a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022
and snowballed beginning in 2018 after Scaramucci, back from Washington, hired a friend from Harvard Law School who's been behind the money-losing push into crypto. https://www.bloomberg.com/... @prof...
Researchers say Twitter's open sourced For You code is missing context to fully explain the service's recommendations, despite a supposed push for transparency
part of the CEO's new approach to media inquiries.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : Twitter's decision to “open source” its algorithm is unprecedented—and filled with problems, @mimbsy...
Substack unveils Notes, letting users share posts, quotes, images, links, and more, shown in a short form feed that “may look like familiar social media feeds”
India amends its IT law to prohibit social media platforms from hosting “misleading” content about the government and requiring them to use its fact-check unit
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Sources: Bengaluru-based quick commerce site Dunzo raised $75M in convertible notes from Google and others, lays off 30%, and plans to close 50% of dark stores
Digbijay Mishra / The Economic Times :
India's Ministry of Electronics and IT says the government does not plan to regulate AI growth, calling the sector “significant and strategic” for the country
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Sources: Chinese state-owned telecoms are planning a $500M undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia, the Middle East, and Europe
Joe Brock / Reuters : Tweets: @bonnieglaser Tweets: @bonnieglaser : Just one of an expanding number of areas of US-China competition: China plans $500 million subsea internet cable to rival U.S.-back...
Kyoto-based Kyocera plans to spend ~$470M over six years on a new chip materials plant in Nagasaki prefecture, its first domestic production facility since 2005
Nikkei Asia :
China-based SJ Semi, a middle-end-of-line foundry offering a 12-inch wafer bumping and testing service, raised a $340M Series C extension at a $1.8B valuation
Stephanie Li / DealStreetAsia :
Stripe processed $817B in transactions in 2022, up 26% YoY, vs. 60% growth from 2020 to 2021; new customers grew 19% YoY, of which 55% were outside of the US
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