Instagram restores Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account, banned in 2021 for “sharing debunked claims” about COVID-19 and vaccines, after his presidential bid launch
The prominent anti-vaccine campaigner was suspended in 2021 for spreading misleading health claims.
Sources: Binance's Richard Teng is the frontrunner to become CEO if Changpeng Zhao steps down, as US regulatory scrutiny makes succession planning more urgent
In mid-May, cryptocurrency exchange Binance got some bad news in a far-flung corner of its sprawling universe.
Atomic Wallet investigates user reports of compromised accounts and tries to block stolen crypto from being sold; a researcher says the hack could exceed $35M+
The developers of Atomic Wallet are investigating reports of large-scale theft of cryptocurrency from users' wallets, with over $35 million in crypto reportedly stolen.
The SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, accusing the company of mishandling billions in customer funds, lying to regulators and investors, and more
The S.E.C. said the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent …
Spotify cuts ~200 jobs, or 2% of its staff, at its podcast unit, combines Parcast and Gimlet into a renewed Spotify Studios, and reports 100M+ podcast listeners
Below is an adaptation of an internal update on Spotify's Podcast Business from Sahar Elhabashi, VP, Head of Podcast Business.
Internal document: Twitter's US ad revenue from April 1 to the first week of May fell 59% YoY to $88M; sources say that performance is unlikely to improve soon
In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.
Bank records: from 2019 to 2020, Binance executive Guangying Chen operated five Silvergate accounts belonging to Binance's purportedly independent US affiliate
A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange's purportedly …
Interviews, pitch decks, and internal documents suggest that Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque's recent success was bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people …
To protest Reddit's API pricing for third-party apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other big subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours
Some of Reddit's biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves …
Google announces passkeys on Workspace accounts in open beta, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks
Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts.
An interview with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on AI's limits, how current machines are not conscious, his 2010 novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and more
The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there's a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’
Carbon Health launches a GPT-4 tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says nearly 90% are accepted without edits
A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes.
Microsoft attributes recent attacks on Progress' MOVEit Transfer tool to the Clop ransomware gang; incident responders: the gang can take weeks to issue demands
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A deep fake video of Putin declaring martial law was broadcast on TVs and radios in some Russian cities on Ukraine's border; Russia says it was due to a “hack”
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Hands-on with Google's Search Generative Experience: answers are slow to load, the user interface is cluttered, simple queries yield error messages, and more
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Stanford researchers: Twitter didn't stop uploads of 40+ known child sexual abuse images in recent months; the issue seemed fixed in May after staff were told
Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told Mastodon: @alex@cybervillains.com and @alex@cybervillains.com Mastodon: Alex Stamos / @alex@cybervil...
A look at The Frost, a 12-minute movie created by Waymark using DALL-E 2, as startups like Waymark and Runway make AI tools for fast and cheap video production
“We kind of hit a point where we just stopped fighting the desire for photographic accuracy … Tweets: Jack Shafer / @jackshafer : “The immediate future of generative video is being shaped by the adver...
Policymakers should not let tech executives, who argue their companies are best placed to regulate AI, shape the narrative, and should use independent oversight
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Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida says cloud gaming has many technical difficulties, like latency, and the company could use its AI, GT Sophy, to enhance cloud gaming
Bitcoin developers feud over whether to stamp out memecoins that have swarmed the network, led to an 11x spike in May 2023 processing fees, and created a logjam
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A profile of Rachel Kowert, a video game research psychologist who believes games are a net good for society and its future due to “unintentional learning”
Alyssa Mercante / Kotaku : Tweets: @danieljkelley , @ralphjodicejr , and @drkowert Tweets: Daniel Kelley / @danieljkelley : Oh crap! Another amazing profile of an amazing human in gaming @DrKowert. h...
Five teams at DEF CON 2023 plan to try to hack Moonlighter, a US-funded 3U cubesat, the first time DEF CON hackers will get to hack a live, in-orbit satellite
As TSMC plans to hire 4,500 workers at its two Arizona fabs, recruiters say the company's culture, rigid standards, and overseas training turn off candidates
The American government is relearning why manufacturing was outsourced to China Tweets: @davenewworld_2 : “'People slept in the office for a month straight,' an engineer wrote. ‘Twelve-hour days are s...
Some Montana residents speak up against, or for, the state's highly politicized TikTok ban, including one of the influencers suing the state to overturn the ban
Preqin: in the first five months of 2023, VC funding for Southeast Asian startups hit $4B, down 65% compared to H1 2022, as Grab and GoTo continue to slow down
Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia : Tweets: @tito and @nikkeiasia Tweets: Tito Costa / @tito : Reality check: even at the top of a generational bubble, not enough returns were generated even by the most s...
Tech layoffs, compounded by interest rate increases and inflation, lead to higher unemployment levels and falling wages in California, Oregon, and Washington
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @producercities Tweets: Jim Russell / @producercities : West Coast States Face Higher Unemployment, Falling Wages: “Average wages have plummeted in areas where high-payi...
A look at the ad-supported, free dual-screen TV from Ilya Pozin's Telly, which says its data and analytics tools will be no more invasive than other TV vendors
An interview with Grab CEO Anthony Tan, who expects the company to break even in 2023 with $2.2B in revenue, on his super-app vision, social impact, and more
Charlie Campbell / TIME : Tweets: @charliecamp6ell Tweets: Charlie Campbell / @charliecamp6ell : “If you don't build a society that's stable, and you don't uplift the bottom, it becomes all of our pr...
Seattle-based Hubble Network, which aims to build a global satellite network that any Bluetooth device can connect to, raised a $20M Series A led by Transpose
Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, the politics of attention, the power of federation, and more
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.