At an all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg addressed Apple's Vision Pro, saying “that could be the vision of the future of computing” but “not the one that I want”
/ Zuckerberg directly addressed Apple's Vision Pro unveiling in a meeting with Meta employees today …
Binance.US suspends USD deposits and notifies customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13
Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners are preparing to pause fiat …
Chris Cox showed Meta's staff its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app integrated with ActivityPub; documents say the app could be called Threads
One of Meta's top executives showed employees a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor during …
Apollo's developer plans to shut down the Reddit client on June 30, saying “Reddit's recent decisions and actions” make it impossible for Apollo to continue
Popular third-party Reddit app Apollo will be shutting down as of June 30, Apollo developer Christian Selig announced today.
Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by co-founder CZ between 2019 and 2021
If you are wilfully violating securities law, I have some advice: do not put … Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg : Elizabeth Warren Says Binance Appears to Have Lied to Lawmakers Wall Street Journal : Bi...
Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a plan to employees on Thursday that will see it put generative AI text …
A database on Microsoft's Xandr containing 650K+ “audience segments” shows how data brokers classify consumers by surveilling their online and offline activity
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr's website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” …
Spotify is testing a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which will automatically save a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening
/ The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’
Antenna: Netflix got more new US subscriptions May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any four-day period since at least 2019
Shortly after change, company had highest rate of sign-ups since Antenna began tracking data in 2019
Barracuda asked its Email Security Gateway customers on June 6 to replace infected appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20
It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission …
Robinhood says it will end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance
- Robinhood will no longer support Solana, Polygon or Cardano after June 27, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. ET.
The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US
Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.
Six US senators reintroduce a bipartisan bill to improve social media transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, moderation stats, and more
John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory. — The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) …
After the SEC's recent actions and failures of FTX, Celsius, and Luna, Republican lawmakers proposing a crypto market bill is a jarring gift to the industry
Republican proposal for new legislation would legitimise the digital asset industry and undermine investor protection
Disney's Hotstar plans to offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices, following JioCinema's recent success with a similar strategy
Walt Disney Co's (DIS.N) Hotstar will offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices …
The Dutch government asks TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the platform, with plans to analyze how the algorithm functions
The Dutch government asked ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the social media platform in a bid to protect users online.
A US judge rejects a request to relinquish control over $7.3B in disputed FTX assets; liquidators in the Bahamas argued a local judge should oversee the process
Liquidators had argued the assets should be overseen by a court in the Bahamas during a bankruptcy hearing for the exchange on Thursday.
A look at Japan's expanding chip sector, aided by $14B+ in subsidies, including for TSMC's plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by narrow, jammed roads
Every morning, some of the world's top chip engineers can be found stuck in traffic on Kumamoto Prefecture's Route 30 … Tweets: @business , @pelstrom , @pelstrom , @pelstrom , and @pelstrom Tweets: @b...
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to host an AI summit in the fall with “like-minded” nations, saying the UK would be “well-placed” to convene discussions
Welcome to Onfido's Policy Corner, your regular briefing on key global policy updates … Alex McFarland / Unite.AI : UK to Lead Global Discussions on AI Safety with First Major Summit Peter Walker / Th...
On the 10th anniversary of his revelations, Edward Snowden says he has “no regrets” and “2013 seems like child's play” versus current surveillance capabilities
of lying to Congress notoriety—the Snowden Revelations pulled forward the adoption of encryption on the internet by 7 years. Snowden: “That's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about me.” [vi...
WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast feature as “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment and other monetization services
a private way to follow people and organizations …
DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $661.4M, vs. $642M est., subscription revenue up 12% YoY, and a $539K net income, up from a $27.4M net loss in Q1 2022
Earnings Review Eric J. Savitz / Barron's Online : DocuSign Shares Soar on Strong Revenue and Billings
A group of ~120 Google contract workers employed via Accenture seek to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, saying that Alphabet is their “joint employer”
Bloomberg :
Maryland-based Blackpoint Cyber, which sells detection and response cybersecurity services, raised a $190M Series C led by Bain Capital with Accel participation
and just helped Blackpoint Cyber raise $190 million led by Bain Capital Alanah Nichole Davis / Technical.ly : Blackpoint Cyber raised $190M in Bain Capital-supported Series C Help Net Security : Black...
Researchers find loopholes in Nvidia's NeMo Framework, which helps developers work with LLMs, letting them bypass safety restraints to reveal private data
Researchers manipulate feature in ways that could reveal sensitive information — A feature in Nvidia's artificial intelligence software …
EvenUp, whose AI tool generates legal documents to assess personal injury cases, raised a $50.5M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $325M valuation
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Google plans to launch News Showcase, first announced in October 2020, in the US later this summer, alongside partnerships with five local news associations
William Turvill / Press Gazette :
Internal email: Google plans to consider office attendance records in performance reviews and only take new requests to work remotely full time as exceptions
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal :
DeepMind's AlphaDev, an AI for discovering better algorithms, devised a C++ sorting algorithm that is up to 70% faster; ISO has since added the algorithm to C++
A radio host sues OpenAI for defamation over a ChatGPT hallucination, alleging the tool generated a false legal complaint accusing him of fraud and embezzlement
Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law :
Evan Williams says he was “sad” when Elon Musk bought Twitter after thinking the idea was “interesting and fun” and Musk hasn't “dialed it in quite right yet”
“Hasn't quite dialed it in yet” is definitely one way to put it. @darthbluesky.bsky.social : yes it is just not dialed in quite right that is the issue — jfc Tweets: Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintani...
iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma will include Link Tracking Protection in Mail, Messages, and Safari's private mode to automatically remove tracking parameters in URLs
The UK FCA plans to introduce tough crypto advertising rules, classifying crypto as “restricted mass market investments”, banning incentives to invest, and more
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk :
Google releases a conceptual framework for companies to quickly secure their AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models or steal AI training data
Sam Sabin / Axios :
Hong Kong-based Taiko Labs, which is focused on scaling Ethereum, raised a $10M seed led by Sequoia China and a $12M pre-Series A led by Generative Ventures
Ryan Weeks / The Block :
California DMV issues the first permit to publicly sell or lease vehicles with an automated driving system, to Mercedes-Benz for its Level 3 Drive Pilot system
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Granica, which helps AI companies optimize their cloud object storage in Amazon S3 and Google Cloud, emerges from stealth with $45M from NEA, BCV, and others
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal :
The European Court of Justice strikes down Barcelona's 2018 restrictions on ride-hailing licenses, which could help services like Uber and Cabify across Europe
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