Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks
280 characters at a time Nancy Cook / Bloomberg : Ron DeSantis to Join Elon Musk on Twitter Wednesday to Announce 2024 Run Lawrence Richard / Fox News : Florida college student who shared location of ...
Netflix cracks down on password sharing in the US and offers paid sharing, which lets some accounts add an extra member outside their household for $7.99/month
Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is.
Elon Musk's intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight
DeSantis to share '24 campaign debut with Musk Madeline Berg / Insider : Twitter is starting to look a lot like Fox News Sofia Lotto Persio / Quartz : 🌎 DeSantis's risky gamble The Guardian : With DeS...
The US Treasury sanctions four entities and one individual over North Korea's “army” of illicit IT workers, often based in Russia and China, and cyberattacks
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against four entities …
European gaming giant Embracer says a “groundbreaking” partnership worth $2B+ has collapsed and lowers its financial forecasts, sending shares crashing by 40%+
One of Europe's largest gaming companies has slashed its profit forecast for the year after a planned partnership fell through worth …
Both AMD's $269 Radeon RX 7600 and Nvidia's $399 RTX 4060 Ti disappoint for 1440p gaming, working better at 1080p, but still offer good performance at the price
I wish 1440p GPUs were more mainstream after years of 1080p dominance. … I'm disappointed.
Sony sold ~600K PlayStation VR2 units during the first six weeks of availability after its February 22 launch, 8% more than PSVR sales six weeks from launch
PlayStation VR2's early sales are ahead of what its PS4-powered predecessor managed, Sony has claimed.
Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China
And it's happening in plain sight. — Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares …
TikTok CEO Shou Chew says Oracle has begun reviewing TikTok's source code and the app is “on track” to have all US user data hosted and overseen by Oracle
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says US chip export controls has put the US tech industry at risk of “enormous damage”, as Chinese firms start building their own chips
Jensen Huang tells lawmakers to be ‘thoughtful’ about imposing more export controls on Beijing
Microsoft Surface Pro X owners say the cameras stopped working this week; a workaround suggests the problem could be related to an expired security certificate
Surface Pro X owners are reporting that the cameras on their devices have stopped working this week.
Final Cut Pro for iPad review: touch-friendly design and accessible pricing but limited Mac interoperability and lacks the blade tool, stabilization, and more
here's why Jason Cipriani / ZDNet : Final Cut Pro on the iPad: A surprisingly touching experience KDigitalStudio on YouTube : Final Cut Pro on iPad: Effortless Editing Chris Niccolls / PetaPixel : App...
US filing: South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix ask the US to review its chip subsidy criteria, concerned over the impact on limiting chip investment in China
Soo-Hyang Choi / Reuters :
Sources and documents: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on messaging tool Lark, used by ByteDance, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns
Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents. Tweets: @sapna , @sapna , @sapna , a...
Logic Pro for iPad review: translates the pro app's UI to a touch screen well and is very fun with few compromises, but can't load a lot of third-party plug-ins
Microsoft plans to adopt the same plugin standard that OpenAI introduced for ChatGPT, enabling interoperability across ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot offerings
We are showcasing how AI is redefining what developers build, as well as how AI is accelerating new business value. … Mastodon: Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung@mastodon.social : Imagine being Cortana and the...
Spotify is building AI tools trained on its hosts' voices to create targeted ads, per Bill Simmons, the founder of the Spotify-owned podcast network The Ringer
- Bill Simmons, founder of The Ringer, hinted at Spotify's future AI plans. — He said that the streaming service is working on technology for AI-generated ads.
A study suggests that the human brain and artificial general-purpose neural networks process language sounds in similar ways
Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills. — How do brains learn?
Linda Yaccarino's main challenge at Twitter will be improving advertiser relationships while keeping Elon Musk happy; sources say she wants to raise her profile
Elon Musk joked in December that he'd step down as Twitter's chief executive officer once he found someone “foolish enough” to take his place. Tweets: @sarahfrier and @mattnavarra See also Mediagazer ...
An interview with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, who manages the OpenAI partnership, as Microsoft adds Copilots to everything from Office to Terminal to Edge
Sources, reports, and analysis: Chinese hackers targeted the Kenyan government from late 2019 until at least 2022 to find information on debt owed to China
Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions … Tweets: @bing_chris , @bing_chris , @pearswick , @p...
Hands-on with Sudowrite's Story Engine, a generative AI tool for long-form fiction that works better than previous options but still has big limitations
Thoughts are swarming my mind like a nest of cyber-rats. … Last week, generative fiction tool Sudowrite launched a system for writing whole novels.
The EU General Court dismisses Meta's challenge to EU regulators seeking vast amounts of data in an antitrust case; Meta first opposed the request in 2020
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg :
Six weeks after Amazon demoed its generative AI tools with an unusually vague announcement and just one testimonial, many cloud customers do not have access
Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud customers are clamoring to get their hands on the ChatGPT-style technology the company unveiled six weeks ago.
Google launches Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants edit product images using generative AI for free, rolling out to US sellers in “the next few months”
Google plans to use generative AI to boost the relevance of Search ads based on query context and debuts a conversational experience for creating ad campaigns
https://searchengineland.com/ ... Tweets: Fabio Chiusi / @fabiochiusi : “For example, users can search “hiking backpacks for kids” on the new version of Google and the AI could respond with an ad for ...
Logitech announces the $699 Logi Dock Flex, an all-in-one USB-C docking station with an 8-inch touchscreen and support for two 4K monitors, coming in fall 2023
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge :
Microsoft adds native support for rar, 7-zip, tar, gz, and other archive formats to Windows 11, via the libarchive open-source project
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Apple announces a “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” deal with Broadcom to develop and manufacture 5G and wireless components, including FBAR filters, in the US
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
An influx of digital nomads, mostly from the US, in Medellín, Mexico City, and other cities is boosting local economies, as locals complain of being priced out
Stephen Witt / Rest of World : Tweets: @adjwilson , @violazhouyi , @fbajak , @noahpasaran , @heejinsoulyves , @restofworld , @alexnpress , @spwells , @chaykak , @restofworld , @vickiturk , and @ojosd...
Figure, which is developing a humanoid robot that recently took its first step, raised a $70M Series A led by Parkway, following a self-financed $100M seed
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Sources: Alibaba Cloud plans to layoff 7% of its staff, or ~1,000 employees, as the unit prepares for a spinoff within 12 months and an eventual IPO
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia :
Multilingual language models may not be effective tools to moderate content on social networks due the systems' shortcomings in detecting harmful content
Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue down 18.9% YoY to ~$8.4B and a ~$596M net income, up from a ~$75M loss in Q1 2022, both above estimates, as cost cutting helps margins
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Peloton revamps its app to offer a $24/month tier with unlimited hardware-based classes and a free tier without live classes, alongside its $13/month tier
Microsoft adds AI-generated app review summaries to the Microsoft Store and an AI Hub to highlight AI apps, designed to guide customers on their “AI journey”
Wes Davis / The Verge :
Samsung demos multiple OLED panels, including a long rollable display and one that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels from a user's finger
Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a $2B valuation, up from $1.22B during its $121M Series D in March 2022, taking its funding to $274M
Insider, a Turkish artificial intelligence-backed marketing platform, was valued at almost $2 billion in a funding round …
Google launches the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program, a bug bounty program for its Android applications, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $30K
BuzzFeed debuts Botatouille, a free chatbot that suggests recipes from its food brand Tasty, and plans to offer AI-personalized services to sell subscriptions
New York-based OpenFin, which offers tools for financial institutions to build unified, digital workspaces, raised a $35M Series D led by Bank of America
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Tokyo-based taxi-hailing app Go says it raised ~$72M from Goldman Sachs at a ~$1B valuation and commands 70% of the Japanese market, outpacing Uber and Didi
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg :
Microsoft launches Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers on the company's OneLake data lake, but also works with Amazon S3 and soon GCP
Microsoft agrees to sign all AI images generated by Bing Image Creator and Microsoft Designer with a cryptographic watermark according to the C2PA specification
Flipboard rolls out support for integrating accounts from decentralized social networks Bluesky and Pixelfed, after adding support for Mastodon in February 2023
Austin-based Episode Six, which sells payment processing services and digital ledger infrastructure to banks and companies, raised a $48M Series C led by Avenir
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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