Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes
On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess — Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.
Google plans to end support for the Dropcam and the Nest Secure home security system on April 8, 2024, continuing to drop products outside of Google Home
Google is ending support for the Dropcam and the Nest Secure home security system in exactly one year, on April 8th, 2024.
Twitter starts marking Substack links with a warning that the link “has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe”
Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe. If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL …
Experts say when ChatGPT confabulates, it is reaching for information that is absent from its training data and filling in blanks with plausible-sounding words
A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots. — Over the past few months …
How Uber revamped its app, attracting more drivers and extending its lead on Lyft; YipitData: Uber's US market share grew from 62% in early 2020 to 74% now
Dara Khosrowshahi and other executives realized drivers' complaints were valid. They revamped the app, helping Uber attract workers and extend its lead on Lyft.
Substack's founders criticize Twitter, saying the abrupt change is a reminder of why writers need a platform “that protects the free press and free speech”
/ Substack's founders say this serves as a reminder of why writers need a platform that 'puts them in charge …
MSI confirms a data breach after a ransomware gang claimed to have stolen its source code, and warns users not to download updates from third-party sources
The ransomware group is reportedly demanding $4 million or it will leak the stolen data, which includes company source code.
Anthropic's Series C pitch deck shows the AI startup aims to raise up to $5B over the next two years to take on OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries
Anthropic plans to train a powerful model with billions in new funding — AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise …
Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs
Programmers' high pay is just a sliver of the company's multibillion-dollar metaverse investment
Substack shares its financials as required by crowdfunding rules: $11.9M in 2021 gross revenue vs. $2.4M in 2020 and a $22.9M net loss in 2021 vs. $2.3M in 2020
When newsletter platform Substack last month launched a crowdfunding campaign, its writers and fans responded with more than $7.5 million …
Samsung plans to cut memory chip production to a “meaningful level” after estimating that its Q1 operating profit fell 95%+ YoY to ~$450M, its lowest since 2009
no, like, really bad Msmash / Slashdot : Samsung To Cut Chip Production as Profits Plunge by 96% Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Samsung scales back memory chip production as profit craters TechPowerUp ...
Sources and docs: ChatGPT's success made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks with their ethical guidelines for ensuring tech doesn't hurt society
Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry's next big thing.
The US Treasury warns that DeFi services that aren't compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”
US Treasury Damilola Lawrence / Cryptopolitan : U.S Treasury report reveals how North Korea and criminals use DeFi services to facilitate money laundering Florence Muchai / Cryptopolitan : US Treasury...
Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls
including mobile phones, laptops, circuit boards and semiconductors — to Russia since February 2022. https://www.ft.com/... Richard Shearman / @dickshearman : Sanctions UK style: ‘Significant control’...
Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers' cash after the failure of Signature Bank and is using at least one middleman to store funds
As a stopgap, the exchange is using at least one middleman to store user funds on its behalf — The U.S. affiliate …
A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates
Joel Khalili / Wired :
Sources: Meta told political campaigns in March that the company reviews AI-generated images via its fact-checking program, which exempts candidates and parties
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post :
Twitter seemingly removed a journalist's tweet about India's Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”
The Hindu : Tweets: @officialsauravd , @martinsfp , and @akhmxt . Thanks: @aroondeep See also Mediagazer Tweets: @officialsauravd : “My tweets have been withheld not just in India, but worldwide. I d...
Tencent and ByteDance's Douyin sign a deal authorizing Douyin to distribute Tencent's video content, after years of copyright disputes between the two companies
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
Bitdefender survey of 400+ IT and security professionals: 42% were told to cover up data breaches that should have been reported and 29.9% admit doing so
Have you ever wondered how many companies are keeping their data breaches under wraps? … Tweets: Phil Muncaster / @philmuncaster : With 42% of IT pros (and 70% in the US) told to keep quiet over data ...
Amazon bans the sale of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, tagging the product as a card-skimming device
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Sources: Stability AI wants to bring in a Sheryl Sandberg-like executive after burning through much of the $100M raised in 2022 while generating little revenue
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Tweets: @greglinden , @greglinden , @levynews , and @reedalbergotti Tweets: Greg Linden / @greglinden : If your AI demo is mediocre most of the time and crap 20% of the ti...
Denver-based True Anomaly, founded by ex-Space Force members to make “autonomous orbital pursuit” intelligence satellites, raised $30M including a $17M Series A
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch :
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