In a campaign called #BlockTheBlue, some Twitter users, including popular ones like @dril, are asking people to block anyone who subscribes to Twitter Blue
After Elon Musk removed legacy verified users' checkmarks, Twitter's biggest users are blocking everyone who pays.
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...
WhatsApp introduces Keep in Chat, an option that allows recipients of disappearing messages to save them if the sender consents
Something to consider before sending a risky text via WhatsApp is that now, disappearing messages are a bit more optional. Mark Zuckerberg is announcing …
Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri demoed an AI-powered screenless wearable with a projector to display info, voice and gestures for input, and no phone required
Humane, the startup founded by ex-Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, has given a first live demo of its new device …
Sources: Twitter removed its “visibility filtering rules”, or “shadow bans”, for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government accounts and state-affiliated media
Dmitry Medvedev, a leading government official and former president of Russia, took to Twitter earlier …
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua
Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX Matt Novak / Forbes : Russia's RT Editor-In-Chief Thanks Elon Musk For Scrapping ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label On Twitter ChinaTechNews.com : Elon Musk Drops All Media Label...
Sources: Google halted construction of its 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase, and doesn't plan to revive the project soon
- Google has halted construction of its proposed 80-acre campus in San Jose, California, after the first demolition phase.
On April 7, Google patched the GhostToken GCP vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to backdoor Google accounts using malicious OAuth applications
Google has addressed a Cloud Platform (GCP) security vulnerability impacting all users and allowing attackers to backdoor …
The US Department of Homeland Security announces a task force to explore potential uses of AI to protect the country, including better cargo screening systems
- The Department of Homeland Security will establish a new task force to examine how artificial intelligence technology can be used …
Google gives Bard the ability to generate, debug, and explain code in 20+ languages including C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, and Python, and export code to Colab
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
Sources and analysts share insights on Apple's plans in financial services, as the company lays the technical groundwork for taking a bigger share of the market
The tech giant's ventures into financial services signal greater ambitions to take on Wall Street
Mandiant says the North Korea-linked hack of VoIP company 3CX's customers is the first confirmed incident of one software-supply-chain attack enabling another
perhaps the first confirmed case of one software supply chain attack causing another. https://www.wired.com/... Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : I've updated story about 3XC/X_Trader with new info: per @syma...
Sources: Lyft plans to lay off 1,200+, or 30%+ of its 4,000+ staff, days after its new CEO took over, aiming to cut its costs by 50%; Lyft cut ~700 jobs in 2022
at least 30% of its staff. It's struggling to keep up with Uber. Lynn Doan / Fortune : ‘We need to bring our costs down’: Lyft plans to slash another 1,200 jobs after losing ground to rival Uber and s...
Survey of 11,004 US adults: 62% believe AI will have a major impact on workers, 28% think AI will impact themselves; 71% oppose AI use in final hiring decisions
62% believe artificial intelligence will have a major impact on jobholders overall in the next 20 years, but far fewer think it will greatly affect them personally.
A federal jury in Texas orders Samsung to pay $303M to computer memory company Netlist for infringing five patents related to improvements in data processing
Computer-memory company Netlist Inc (NLST.PK) convinced a federal jury in Texas on Friday to award it more than $303 million …
The EU Parliament approves the Markets in Cryptoassets, or MiCA, regulation for the crypto industry, including rules for stablecoins set to apply from July 2024
Google announces Google DeepMind, a unit combining DeepMind's team and Google Research's Brain team, to be led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as its CEO
Sources: Joe Biden plans to sign an EO in the coming weeks limiting new investments by US businesses in China, focusing on chips, AI, and quantum computing
President Joe Biden aims to sign an executive order in the coming weeks that will limit investment in key parts of China's economy …
A California jury clears Tesla of any blame for a 2019 crash involving Autopilot as the company's user manual warned against using the system on city streets
Mullvad VPN says Swedish police visited its office with a search warrant but left with nothing after the company revealed its no-logging policy on customer data
Michael Kan / PCMag :
A profile of Runa Sandvik, who started Granitt in June 2022 to help journalists, lawyers, activists, and other at-risk people keep their data safe from hackers
Runa Sandvik has made it her life's work to protect journalists against cyberattacks. Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business. LinkedIn: Patrick Boehler . Tweets: @runasand and @mediaphyter...
The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork is causing transactional disputes and increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : LinkedIn: Rashi Shrivastava and Patrick von Sychowski Tweets: @antoniocasilli , @fabiochiusi , @sazeracnela , @zachweiner , and @kevinokeefe See also Mediagazer LinkedIn:...
Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany's Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B
Andrew Pollack / Bloomberg :
Sources: UK plans to propose a bill next week enabling CMA's digital markets unit to target Big Tech companies with revenues of £25B+ globally or £1B in the UK
Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA's digital markets unit on a statutory footing Tweets: @fosspatents Tweets: Florian Mueller / @fosspatents : The last laugh may be on #Apple, not @CMAg...
Documents, photos, and videos show TikTok's US datacenters have faced security failures and use servers made by Inspur, which the US sanctioned in March 2023
Emily Baker-White / Forbes :
The Linux Foundation launches the TLA+ Foundation to promote and develop the TLA+ programming language; inaugural members include AWS, Oracle, and Microsoft
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