Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024
Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation — Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …
A UK Treasury Committee crypto report recommends the government regulate trading and investment in unbacked crypto as gambling instead of a financial service
Bitcoin , ether and other cryptocurrencies should be regulated as gambling given the significant risks they pose to consumers …
SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh
Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Binance Australia can no longer offer Aussie dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, “our payment processor's partner bank”, and warns of disruptions
The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access …
Survey: 60% of Americans who used Twitter in the past year have taken a break from the social network; 25% say they are not likely to use Twitter in a year
A majority of Americans who have used Twitter in the past year report taking a break from the platform during that time …
Sources detail Apple's headset ahead of WWDC: shifting the vision from eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook's product noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more
Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category …
Chipmakers TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron, Applied Materials, IBM, and Rapidus announce plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships in Japan
Seven of the world's largest semiconductor makers have set out plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships in Japan …
YouTube unveils 30-second unskippable ads on top-performing videos on TVs and says 150M+ unique US viewers watched YouTube or YouTube TV on TVs in December 2022
Google's video giant says it reaches more than 150 million U.S. monthly viewers on TV screens
Amazon plans to invest $12.7B into its AWS infrastructure in India by 2030, on top of a previous $3.7B, and says its spending will support 131.7K full-time jobs
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud infrastructure in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday …
Tether plans to invest up to 15% of its profits in bitcoin, as the stablecoin developer shifts its reserves toward crypto and away from US government debt
- Tether is set to purchase bitcoin on a regular basis from its profits. — It held $1.5 billion in bitcoin as of the end of the first quarter …
Grayscale says the US SEC warned that the Filecoin token meets the definition of a security and asked Grayscale to withdraw its Filecoin Trust application
Grayscale announced last month that the SEC suggested FIL might be a security. — to withdraw its Form 10 that sought …
Fertility tracking app Premom settles with the FTC and state AGs for $200K over allegedly sharing sensitive user information with third parties without consent
The app allegedly shared sensitive user information with China-based companies known for privacy problems
Sources: Apple plans to get directly involved in microLED display production to reduce its reliance on Samsung, after spending $1B+ on R&D in nearly 10 years
iPhone maker makes billion-dollar bet on micro-LED screens — Apple is taking a hands-on approach to production of micro-LED screens …
An investigation finds that hundreds of freelancers hired as customer service staff catfish users into paying for subscriptions on niche dating and hookup sites
Hired as customer service reps, these freelancers were instead tasked with luring in the lonely and lovestruck through a network of dating and hookup sites.
Meta's unusual move to open source LLaMA stands out from its rivals' approach, driven by the belief that sharing its work will help spread its influence in AI
The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
An investigation finds ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the company was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below his claims of $50M and $100M
Years of tax filings give the most complete picture yet of OpenAI's early finances — It's no secret that Elon Musk …
A survey of 70 cybersecurity experts: 64% favor reauthorization of FISA's Section 702, set to expire at the end of 2023, with some changes to address abuse
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! It's good to be back from Denver. There, a 6-year-old repeatedly defeated me and/or incapacitated … Tweets: @peterswire , @dnvolz , and @kimzetter Tweets: Peter Swi...
Google plans to migrate 1% of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and disable third-party cookies for them in Q1 2024 and deprecate third-party cookies in H2 2024
Google's Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage …
Logitech partners with iFixit to help with DIY repairs, supplying spare parts, batteries, and guides for select Logitech hardware starting this summer in the US
Broken Gear? We've Got the Fix. — Click your device's model to find … Logitech International : Logitech Partners with iFixit to Advance Circularity Goals Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Logitec...
Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and work on two chips: MTIA to train and run AI models, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, to accelerate video workloads
At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads …
Netflix says its ad tier has nearly 5M MAUs globally six months after launch and makes up 25%+ of signups in countries with the option; the median age is 34
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter :
Q&A with the FBI's Bryan Smith on how the agency generated 300+ decryption keys from Hive's servers and gave them to victims, avoiding ~$130M in ransom payments
While there was excitement when they actually got that access, there was no time to kind of enjoy that moment …
Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$30.3B, a ~$3.2B net income, up from a ~$2.9B net loss in Q4 2022, and plans to spin off its cloud unit and IPO others
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg :
Amazon has made just 100 Prime Air drone deliveries so far, after projecting 10K US deliveries in 2023; Wing has made 330K deliveries, Zipline has made 600K
WATCH NOW — Amazon drones make 100th delivery, lagging far behind Alphabet's Wing and Walmart partner Zipline Tweets: @theo_wayt Tweets: Theo Wayt / @theo_wayt : Amazon told CNBC today that it's mad...
FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh, claiming the trio knew Alameda was insolvent when acquiring clearing platform Embed for nearly $250M
Colin Wilhelm / The Block :
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, says governments need to act quickly to “protect the public”
Computer science professor becomes latest expert to voice concerns over rapid rollout of large language models Tweets: @superwuster , @adamkovac , @aidangomezzz , and @alondra Tweets: Tim Wu / @superw...
Ripple acquires Switzerland-based digital asset custody startup Metaco for $250M in cash and stock and plans to keep the brand and founder Adrien Treccani
Amazon announces the new $40 semi-circle design Echo Pop, updates the $90 Echo Show 5, $100 Echo Show 5 Kids Edition, $50 Echo Buds, expands Echo Auto, and more
A look at eNaira, Nigeria's 18-month-old government-backed digital currency that hasn't converted crypto users and has been hindered by limited internet access
Temitayo Lawal / Rest of World :
An in-depth look at the impact of LLMs on music and recording artists, reflecting on Vocaloid's first software in 2004, Hatsune Miku, Drake, and Louis Armstrong
@elite_gz h/t @jjvincent https://twitter.com/... @elite_gz : tl;dr: it's just vocaloid. this technology has existed for twenty years, it's just easy enough to use now to justify doing illegal things w...
An update to Google's Personal Safety app for Android suggests the company plans to offer a Dashcam recording feature for Pixel phones and other select devices
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $14.6B, vs. $14.4B est., net income up 6% YoY to $3.2B, also beating estimates, and a strong Q4 sales forecast
Bloomberg :
Micron plans to invest up to ~$3.6B in Japan over the next few years, including to build a DRAM chipmaking plant in Hiroshima prefecture with government support
Nikkei Asia :
Sources: the Irish DPC is set to hand Meta a record EU privacy fine and order the company to stop all data transfers to the US that rely on certain clauses
Coinbase launches its Coinbase One subscription in the US, the UK, Germany, and Ireland, offering zero trading fees, 24/7 customer support, and more
Coinbase One will launch in 35 countries, starting with US, UK, Germany and Ireland — Coinbase, the world's second-largest crypto exchange …
Sources: Snowflake is in advanced talks to acquire Neeva, possibly for AI tools to help companies search internal data; Neeva also shopped itself to Databricks
The Information :
Sources: private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG plan a $5B+ bid to acquire observability software company New Relic; a deal may be reached in weeks
Laura Cooper / Wall Street Journal :
Voyager expects users to recover ~35% of their crypto deposits as a US judge approves its liquidation plan, letting the company return ~$1.33B in crypto assets
Dietrich Knauth / Reuters :
PitchBook: VC funds invested $187.7M into the startups that develop deepfake technologies in 2022 and another $50M so far in 2023, up from just $1M in 2017
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg :
Draft doc: European telecoms propose that companies accounting for 5%+ of a provider's peak average internet traffic help fund the rollout of 5G and broadband
Grammarly announces Grammarly Business, which uses generative AI to summarize key points in email threads, compose replies, and more, rolling out in June 2023
Diana Li / Bloomberg :
IBM plans to give $100M and Google plans to give $50M for quantum computing research to the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo
Docs: Google plans to use new AI models for ads, customer service, and to help YouTube creators, and is working on an internal Stable Diffusion-like product
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
After FiscalNote, which offers data to US lobbyists, shared plans to use ChatGPT, OpenAI told the company the chatbot can only be used for grassroots campaigns
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