NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent
The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
Ethereum successfully completes its Shanghai, or Shapella, update, letting users withdraw staked ether; around 1.2M ETH are expected to be withdrawn in a week
The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade.
AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features
The world's largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly break even”, grew agitated over misinformation and hate speech questions, which he avoided, and more
The Elon Musk portion of the Twitter Files story meets its M. Night Shyamalan ending. Chris Stokel-Walker / The i Paper : Elon Musk says he never wanted Twitter, but there's no way out for him now Mik...
Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022, after awarding him a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more in his annual letter
Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 …
FTX's attorneys say the company recovered $7.3B in liquid assets and is considering using creditors' holdings to reopen the exchange; FTX's FTT token jumps 70%+
FTT's price more than doubled. FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed spectacularly in November …
Sources: SFPD arrested tech executive Nima Momeni allegedly for Bob Lee's killing; they purportedly knew each other and were driving together before the killing
Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing …
Sources: Apple made $7B+ worth of iPhones in India in the FY ended March 2023, exporting ~$5B worth; India accounts for ~7% of iPhones made, up from ~1% in 2021
Apple Inc. assembled more than $7 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal year, tripling production in the world's fastest …
The stocks of Apple suppliers Cirrus Logic and AAC fall 12%+ and 14%+, respectively, after Ming-Chi Kuo said iPhone 15 Pro models won't have solid-state buttons
- Shares of Cirrus Logic fell after Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the next iPhone wouldn't feature expanded use of Cirrus' technology …
Sources say Apple is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand and the company has been mass producing the Apple Watch in the country for over a year
U.S. tech giant turning out Apple Watch in Southeast Asian country — For Apple and other tech companies …
Discord says it is cooperating with US law enforcement's investigation into the classified material breach
Instant messaging platform Discord said on Wednesday it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement's investigation into a leak of secret U.S. documents that has grabbed attention around the world.
Filings: SoftBank sold ~$7.2B of Alibaba shares in 2023, reducing its stake in the company to just 3.8%, after a record $29B selldown in 2022; BABA drops 5%+
Japanese investor makes $7.2bn from forward sales of shares in Chinese ecommerce group as lucrative partnership wanes
An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building a “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without knowing the ramifications
The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report
Italy outlines its compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT's suspension, including requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing and age gating
Italy's data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month …
How the US is making arrests and seizing crypto funds, like James Zhong's 50K+ bitcoin, using Chainalysis and other tools to identify criminals via transactions
Federal authorities are making arrests and seizing funds with the help of new tools to identify criminals through cryptocurrency transactions
A study finds that assigning ChatGPT a persona using its API, like “a bad person” or a certain historical figure, increases the chatbot's toxicity sixfold
It's no secret that OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things.
A profile of Paul Dochney, the man behind pseudonymous character @dril that emerged from Something Awful to become one of the most influential Twitter accounts
Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act? Tweets: @kriswernowsky , @scottnover , @en_cohen , @whet , @joeyn...
Adobe rolls out support for images and PDF in Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing in Premiere Pro in May 2023
Adobe has announced several product updates ahead of the 2023 NAB Show, including the addition of text-based video editing features to Premier Pro and the expansion …
European Data Protection Board sets up a ChatGPT task force, an important first step toward a common EU policy on setting privacy rules for AI
Toby Sterling / Reuters :
Warner Bros. Discovery officially announces Max as the new name of its flagship streaming service, launching in the US on May 23 with HBO and Discovery+ content
HBO, a three-letter stand in for “excellence”—and want to trash it because they think reality TV watchers are intimidated by it. https://twitter.com/... Paul Wick / @paulswhtn : “this tv channel is no...
SoftBank plans to sell SoftBank Ventures Asia, which manages ~$2B in assets, to an entity led by Masayoshi Son's brother Taizo Son, for an undisclosed sum
Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg :
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill requiring that social media companies verify new users' ages and get a parent's consent for users under 18
The fight for a Montana bill to ban TikTok, which passed in the Senate and will likely pass in the House, previews the legally perilous road for a federal push
A state rep asked if “this generation” was, through TikTok, choosing the CCP “as their new god” — AT&T talked its way out of having to block the app — TikTok quietly used campaign-style tactics to ral...
Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, adding sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent back arrow, per-app language preferences, and more
Today we're releasing the first Beta of Android 14, building around … Mustafa Mahmoud / KitGuru : Android 14 beta officially available Damien Wilde / 9to5Google : Android 14 Beta 1 hands-on: Top new f...
Nansen: ether worth $1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue after the Shapella upgrade; Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day
Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters :
LinkedIn announces free identity verification via company email for all users globally and via a government ID and phone number for US users using CLEAR
Here's the TL;DR: — 1.) … Ken Y. : You can now have a verified account on LinkedIn...for free! — That's right...the verification craze has caught up with LinkedIn. … Matt Navarra : LinkedIn just l...
Taiwan Ministry of Finance data: chipmaking machine exports to the US rose 42.6% YoY to a new high of $71.3M in March 2023 while exports to China fell 33.7% YoY
Yoshihiro Sato / Bloomberg :
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its instruction-following LLM released two weeks ago, with a dataset of 15K+ records generated by its staff
Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat :
Denmark-based LMS365, an online learning management system focused on training in Microsoft 365 and Teams, raised $20M in its first institutional funding round
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy defends cutting 400 employees, saying the move was vital to keep the service viable, and plans to meet with creators to allay their fears
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :
The European Commission finds that Broadcom's $61B VMware acquisition could restrict competition for Fibre Channel host bus adapters and storage adapters
Sources: IBM explores selling its weather unit for $1B+; IBM reportedly paid $2B+ for The Weather Company's B2B, mobile, and cloud-based businesses in 2015
Wall Street Journal :
Google plans to shut Currents, its Google+ replacement for G Suite launched in 2019, on August 8 so users don't have to work in a “separate, siloed destination”
Mitchell Clark / The Verge :
A look at researchers' use of deep neural networks to examine historical documents and the related risks, like ML slipping bias or falsifications into records
and the ways in which artificial intelligence could upend our relationship to history itself https://twitter.com/... Yannis Assael / @iassael : Thank you @techreview for the insightful article! The fu...
A look at Argentinian crypto company Generación Zoe and its pastor founder Leonardo Cositorto, who is accused of a $120M+ Zoe Cash cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme
Facundo Iglesia / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld and @restofworld Tweets: @restofworld : Generación Zoe brought in hundreds of millions in investments by promising a gold-backed cryptocurrency ...
Sources: ByteDance is offering to pay some developers who have made VR apps for Meta to bring them to its Pico headsets, paying between $15K and $25K per title
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @newley Tweets: Newley Purnell / @newley : New: ByteDance is offering to pay developers who have made virtual-reality software for Meta to bring their apps to its own fa...
A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems
hundreds of thousands of them — powering AI. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @ycombinator : “There's two things I deeply believe. One, AI is a huge force for good, and it needs to b...
NYC-based Cybersyn, a data-as-a-service startup that aims to make economic data more accessible, emerges from stealth with a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake
Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat :
Google launches Assured Open Source Software to help developers defend against supply chain attacks for free, with support for 1,000+ Java and Python packages
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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