Twitter increases the tweet length for Blue subscribers to 10,000 characters, up from the 4,000 set in February 2023, and adds bold and italic text formatting
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WhatsApp rolls out new device verification and account protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and other social engineering attacks
WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features. The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users …
Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more
Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021. — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 …
AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features
As Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in his new shareholder letter … Matt Garman : I'm really excited about the AWS announcement today around our new generative AI capabilities. Amazon Bedrock makes generat...
The SFPD arrested IT company owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee, and say the two men knew each other and were driving together before the killing
Hacking Policy Council launches to advocate for laws that protect security researchers' work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel
“There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne.
Intel becoming a chip foundry is its biggest business shift in nearly 40 years, meaning US industrial policy rests on one of tech's most complex turnarounds yet
Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech's most complex turnrounds
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions
Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation? — It is fair to say that Substack …
Sam Altman says OpenAI won't train GPT-5 for “some time” and the letter to pause AI development missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”
In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO and co-founder …
BeReal fights to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app's daily users fell to under 6M in March 2023 from ~15M in October 2022
BeReal was pitched as Gen Z's safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long.
Spotify plans to shut down Heardle on May 5, after acquiring the Wordle-inspired music guessing game in July 2022, to focus on other music discovery objectives
Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum.
Parlement Technologies sells Parler to digital media company Starboard, which plans to temporarily shut down the right-wing social network ahead of a relaunch
Social network popular with conservatives will be overhauled for a relaunch — Parler, a social network that was popularized …
Sensor Tower: Twitter's top 50 advertisers spent $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, Volkswagen, and Stellantis haven't returned
Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies …
Meta open sources AI project Animated Drawings, which turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings, after releasing a web tool in 2021
Bring children's drawings to life, by animating characters to move around! Meta Open Source on YouTube : Introducing Animated Drawings: An Open Source Project by Meta AI Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :...
Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal if they use copyrighted material
Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material — The European parliament …
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%+
Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk :
The European Data Protection Board sets up a ChatGPT task force, a potentially important first step toward a common EU policy on setting privacy rules for AI
Spotify brings its “broadcast-to-podcast” tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts
Publishers will be able to input the URL to a livestream of their broadcasted content and automatically have a podcast created from that programming … Tweets: Abubakar / @iatalkspace : I thought Clubh...
One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures”
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch :
Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Adobe rolls out support for images and PDFs in cloud-based video collaboration service Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing to Premiere Pro in May 2023
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM acquired in March
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A look at the impact of TerraUSD's collapse and FTX's implosion on the South Korean crypto industry, as the media reports TerraUSD had ~200K local victims
Emily Parker / CoinDesk :
Virginia-based digital ID service ID.me, used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+
Nansen: after “Shapella”, ether worth ~$1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue; due to transaction limits, Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day
Denver-based Elevate, which provides a dashboard for employees to manage their pre-tax benefits, raised $28M led by Anthemis, bringing its total funding to $43M
Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis …
Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a constellation of optical satellites to send data at 2.5Gbps to low Earth orbit satellites, raised a $92M Series C
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch :
Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, adding sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent in-app back arrow, per-app language settings, and more
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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