Google posts an unlisted video ad featuring high-res images of the Pixel Fold, expected to be announced at I/O, showing the hinge, a darker color, and more
Ahead of the announcement at I/O 2023 tomorrow, Google has released an ad that features NBA stars with the Pixel Fold.
Twitter lets users reply directly to any DM with a threaded message and react to messages with a wider range of emojis
Twitter has released two new updates for DMs, which have been in the works for a few months, but are now getting a full launch in the app.
What to expect at Google I/O 2023: Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7A, foldable-focused Android 14 details, a Pixel 8 and 8 Pro preview, Bard updates, PaLM 2, and more AI
Google AI plans just leaked ahead of I/O 2023 Hannah Cowton / Tech Advisor : How to watch the Google I/O 2023 keynote livestream C. Scott Brown / Android Authority : Watch Google I/O 2023 here to see ...
The American Psychological Association issues an advisory on social media use by adolescents, saying social networks are “not inherently beneficial or harmful”
One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set guidelines designed to protect children …
In a Twitter video, Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his Fox show on the social network; Elon Musk says Twitter did not sign a deal “of any kind whatsoever”
The former Fox News host tweeted a video saying he's moving his show to the social media site.
Sources: EU regulators are expected to approve Microsoft's Activision acquisition next week, most likely on May 15, three weeks after the UK blocked the deal
EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) $69 billion acquisition of Activision (ATVI.O) next week …
UK citizen Joseph James O'Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, pleads guilty for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts and other crimes
PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O'Connor, a UK citizen connected to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting many high-profile accounts …
A US judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against Block over its 2021 Tidal acquisition, saying the company was “free to make a terrible business decision”
A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition …
Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on the revamped Rooms feature, flexible work, making principle decisions, the future of AI, inspiration from Apple, and more
Airbnb is revamping its Rooms feature while eyeing AI and betting on work from anywhere. — Brian Chesky, the co-founder …
Sources: Jump Crypto and Jane Street are pulling back from US crypto trading over regulatory uncertainty; Jump is expanding globally while Jane scales back
Jane Street Group and Jump Crypto — two of the world's top market-making firms — are pulling back from trading digital assets …
Uber launches flight bookings on its UK app in partnership with travel booking company Hopper as part of its efforts to become a travel “super app”
Ride-booking giant expands offering after rolling out train, coach and Eurostar ticket tool — Uber has launched flight bookings …
Sam Altman plans to testify to Congress for the first time on May 16 about AI oversight, alongside IBM VP Christina Montgomery and professor Gary Marcus
Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief, will appear for the first time as AI scrutiny soars in Washington — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify …
Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.79B est., its first profitable Q1 with a $117M net income, and a cautious outlook for Q2; ABNB drops 10%+
Key Financial Measures Q1 2023 Revenue Revenue of $1.8 billion increased 20% … Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Airbnb stock price tanks on news of cheaper plans and bookings miss. Here's what's happ...
Tether reports a $1.5B net profit in Q1, $2.44B in excess reserves, and $81.8B+ in assets as of May 9, including $1.5B in bitcoin and $3.3B in precious metals
- Tether reported $1.5 billion of net profit for the first quarter — more than double its Q4 2022 net profit.
GitHub makes its push protection feature, which automatically blocks a leak of sensitive data like API keys and access tokens, free for all public repositories
GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.
A critique of a16z's State of Crypto 2023 report, which seems to be an exercise in propaganda with the sole goal of bolstering the VC firm's bottom line
Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so. Mastodon: @shauna@social.coop . Twe...
A profile of Dark Avenger, a pseudonymous PC virus writer from Bulgaria who gained notoriety in the 1990s after the country became known as the “virus factory”
Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. Tweets: @realhackhistory , @jkosseff , @scottjshapiro , @gcluley...
Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $655.3M, bookings up 23% YoY to $773.8M, DAUs up 22% YoY to 66M, and a $268M loss, up from $160.2M in Q1 2022
- Roblox beat analyst expectations on the top line but reported a wider-than-expected loss per share of 44 cents.
The US says the FBI disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage operation by inspecting FSB's Snake malware and decrypting and decoding its communications
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop :
“Religious” chatbots, based on the Bhagavad Gita, emerge in India, with millions using them, some answering ~50K questions per day and others condoning violence
Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script. — • NEW DELHI, INDIA Tweets: @cengizyar , @hare_brain , and @karan_singhs Tweets: Cengiz / @cengizyar : Talk to you...
Sources: ByteDance postpones opening TikTok Shop to US sellers, planned for spring, to June at the earliest after the service struggled to attract merchants
Doubts over app's future and tepid adoption of live-streaming e-commerce in the U.S. slow plans for full launch
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”
and only if you are not particularly insightful. https://twitter.com/... @dangoodin001 : In today's installment of why it's hypocritical for activists and journalist to stay on Twitter: https://www.vi...
iOS 16.5 beta mentions new Beats Studio Pro, which a source says come in four colors with a Transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, and better ANC
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac :
How Japan-based Rapidus is trying to become a globally competitive chipmaker by 2027, aiming to mass produce 2nm chips just two years after TSMC and Samsung
Tetsuro Higashi is taking on what seems like an impossible task: Create a globally competitive semiconductor manufacturer in Japan from scratch - and do it in four years. Tweets: @gavinsbaker , @rodol...
An investigation finds Google Maps isn't proactively deleting location data consistently when users visit abortion clinics, after Google pledged to in July 2022
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post : LinkedIn: Zach Praiss and Heidi Saas Tweets: @snowjake , @abortionfront , @alphabetworkers , @biancarecto , @washingtonpost , @washingtonpost , and @washingtonp...
OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads”
look, we can explain some neurons in GPT-2! That's so cool! Another way to read it: we can explain 0.3% of neurons in GPT-2, which is 0.00017% the size of GPT-4. So we *really* don't understand these ...
New Jersey-based UVeye, which uses computer vision and ML to inspect vehicles, raised a $100M Series D led by Hanaco VC, a source says at an ~$800M valuation
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
EA reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.9B, a $12M net loss, down from a $225M net income YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.9B, and FIFA net bookings up 31% YoY
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter :
As Miami prepares to host Bitcoin 2023 on May 18, the city and its mayor, who continues to take his salary in bitcoin, have mostly moved on from crypto
On the eve of the annual bitcoin conference, the city and its mayor have mostly moved on from crypto — A year ago, when the annual … Tweets: @silvermanjacob , @deborahacosta , and @mdudas Tweets: @s...
Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots
How does a language model decide which questions it will engage with and which it deems inappropriate? Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI, Anthropic aim to quell concerns over how AI works Damir Yalalov / Met...
Binance launches Capital Connect to connect VIP clients and investment fund managers; the exchange has 128M+ users, of which VIPs are a “very small percentage”
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
A US judge sentences ex-Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi to two years in prison for crypto insider trading; Wahi pled guilty to two counts in February 2023
Goldman, Microsoft, Deloitte, Cboe, and others plan to test the Canton Network blockchain in July 2023, linking apps using Digital Asset's Daml smart contract
A Binance executive says the past six months in the US have been “very confusing” and the company will do “everything we possibly can” to be regulated in the UK
World's largest cryptocurrency exchange says it is ‘very difficult’ to do business in US after moves by Washington regulators Tweets: @smtuffy and @nikasgari Tweets: Sean Tuffy / @smtuffy : I'm old en...
Sources: India plans to reopen applications for incentives from a $10B chip fund, after only getting three applicants in 2022, all of which made little progress
Bloomberg :
Twilio reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.01B, vs. $1B est., 300K+ active customer accounts, up from 268K+ YoY, and Q2 guidance below estimates; TWLO down 13%+
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
A look at Locksmith, a disk copy program that let Apple II users duplicate floppy disks, kickstarting one of the earliest copy protection battles of the PC era
Laine Nooney / VICE : Tweets: @janusrose , @sierra_offline , @motherboard , and @motherboard Tweets: @janusrose : i'm lowkey obsessed with @Sierra_OffLine's history of early software piracy & copy pr...
Coupang reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $5.8B, a $106.8M operating income, compared to a $205.7M loss in Q1 2022, and active customers up 5% YoY to 19M+
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg :
Affirm reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $381M, vs. $370M est., a $205.7M net loss, up from $54.7M YoY, and $4.6B GMV, up from $3.9B YoY; AFRM drops 8%+
We had an excellent quarter: ● Gross Merchandise Volume was $4.6 billion … PYMNTS.com : Affirm Sees ‘Tepid’ Demand for Discretionary Goods The Information : Affirm's Revenue Growth Slows as Loss Widen...
Carriers in dozens of US states are tearing out Chinese equipment, a difficult process the FCC says has already cost $5B+, well over its $1.9B reimbursement pot
Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin plans a Shanghai IPO, sources say after US chip toolmakers assured the equipment the company needs is exempt from export controls
Financial Times :
An EU draft document proposes non-EU cloud providers seeking an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data must set up a joint venture with an EU company
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
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