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@cfarivar

@cfarivar
77 posts
2024-02-03
Apple made $34B in profit in Q4 2023.
2024-02-03 View on X
AppleInsider

Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year”

Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.

Apple made $34B in profit in Q4 2023.
2024-02-03 View on X
Apple

Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net sales up 10% to $30.4B

2024-02-02
Apple made $34B in profit in Q4 2023.
2024-02-02 View on X
Apple

Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net sales up 10% to $30.4B

Services revenue reaches new all-time record EPS up 16 percent to new all-time high  —  Apple® today announced financial results …

2023-12-21
I recently discovered that Etsy has been hosting deepfake porn of celebrities. We pointed it out to them, and got 16 accounts taken down. But, Etsy — a company worth nearly $10B — is still full of a ton of AI-generated porn. My latest for @forbes. https://www.forbes.com/...
2023-12-21 View on X
Forbes

Simple searches show that Etsy, despite its anti-porn policy, lists AI-generated porn for sale; Etsy removed deepfake porn of 55+ celebs after being notified

a company worth nearly $10B — is still full of a ton of AI-generated porn. My latest for @forbes. https://www.forbes.com/...

2023-11-02
2021: Dave Portnoy, of Barstool Sports, says crypto company SafeMoon “could be a Ponzi scheme,” but that he's bullish on it because “I like the word moon.” https://twitter.com/... 2023: DOJ says SafeMoon is a “fraud scheme.” https://www.justice.gov/...
2023-11-02 View on X
CoinDesk

The US SEC charges SafeMoon and its executives for selling unregistered crypto securities and misappropriating investors' funds the team promised were “locked”

https://lnkd.in/dgfMTj9n Freddy M. : This is not #Crypto.  This is #Criminal, and a major reason why people don't understand what we're all building here.  🤦🏽♂️ … Nicholas Schmidt ...

2023-07-22
Razzlekhan aka @HeatherReyhan once rapped that she was “the crocodile of Wall Street.” She's now set to plead guilty to money laundering billions in crypto. Here's my latest for @Forbes : https://www.forbes.com/...
2023-07-22 View on X
Reuters

Court filing: Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein reach a plea deal over allegedly laundering billions in cryptocurrency from Bitfinex's 2016 hack

Luc Cohen / Reuters :

2023-06-21
“...it looks more familiar, the latest iteration of a particularly Silicon Valley division of labor, in which the futuristic gleam of new technologies hides a sprawling manufacturing apparatus and the people who make it run.” https://nymag.com/...
2023-06-21 View on X
The Verge

A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training

As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social , @knguyen.bsky.social , and @yoyoel.com Masto...

2023-05-25
“We were going through my old college sketch pads last year and we found a bunch of A.I. theory.” Wait what. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-05-25 View on X
New York Times

Q&A with Grimes, who invited anyone to make Grimes songs using AI tools, on “open-sourcing” her voice, her obsession with AI, and five GrimesAI-created tracks

the producer and pop singer who has long been enthralled with visions of the future — sees opportunity. https://www.nytimes.com/... @cfarivar : “We were going through my old colleg...

2023-04-21
“The first legal problem with using AI to make a song with vocals that sound like they're from Drake is that the final product isn't a copy of anything.” (by @reckless) https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-04-21 View on X
The Verge

After YouTube pulls Heart On My Sleeve due to a UMG copyright notice, a look at the legal dilemma for Google, which claims scraping data to train AI is fair use

If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gonna... tie you up in a decade of fair use litigation.  —  The AI Drake track …

2023-03-12
Silicon Valley Bank's Abrupt Closure Leaves Venture Capitalists And Founders Scrambling (by @alexrkonrad) https://www.forbes.com/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...

2023-03-11
Silicon Valley Bank's Abrupt Closure Leaves Venture Capitalists And Founders Scrambling (by @alexrkonrad) https://www.forbes.com/...
2023-03-11 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run!  —  SVB

2022-12-16
So Elon appears to no longer allow his tweets to be searched. Here was a recent tweet from him with “lol.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

2022-11-16
Elon has now deleted the “he's fired” tweet. AFAIK, @EricFrohnhoefer still lost his job. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-16 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet

Elon has now deleted the “he's fired” tweet. AFAIK, @EricFrohnhoefer still lost his job. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-16 View on X
Washington Post

In an email to Twitter staff, Elon Musk gives an ultimatum: commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter by 5pm ET on Thursday or leave with three months severance

It comes as Musk's first major feature, Twitter Blue Verified, was halted while the company probes issues that arose from its launch.

2022-11-15
Maybe you saw the news today that a Twitter engineer got fired by Elon, over Twitter. I talked to him — @EricFrohnhoefer. Hours have gone by and he's still had no messaging from the company. He doesn't even know where to send his company laptop. https://www.forbes.com/...
2022-11-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet

Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.

2022-10-01
“Meta, for its part, has appeared largely incapable of halting this flood of violent fantasy erotica ads that violate its rules.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-01 View on X
Forbes

Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm

Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Tweets: @ebakerwhite , @mashaborak , @violazhouyi , @katienotopoulos , @iblametom , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , and @cfarivar See als...

2022-09-30
This is all you need to know. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-30 View on X
Forbes

An investigation shows how self-publishing platform Wattpad's lack of moderation, age verification, and safety features helps sexual predators exploit teens

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes : Tweets: @forbes . Thanks: @rashishrivast18 See also Mediagazer Tweets: @forbes : A Forbes investigation found rampant sexual predation on Wattpad, a s...

2022-06-30
Nice story on the Razzlekhan saga. One eyebrow-raising stat that jumped out at me: in 2021, $3.2B was stolen from crypto exchanges and DeFi apps, or 100X more than all money from all bank robberies in an average year in US. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-30 View on X
Bloomberg

An in-depth look at the 2016 Bitfinex hack and US government's case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, over alleged money laundering

The hackers had been inside the Bitfinex servers for weeks before attempting the heist.  They'd watched users on the cryptocurrency exchange buy and sell Bitcoins. Tweets: @kaileyl...

2022-06-09
This story is rather incredible. (Great reporting by @iblametom and great legal work by @jess_bohrer!) https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-09 View on X
Forbes

Unsealed docs: the US Secret Service ordered travel companies Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, providing weekly location reports

Thomas Brewster / Forbes :

2022-02-12
The AirTag is the best bike tracking device out there — $29! battery life that lasts a year! — but this as a personal threat model is something else. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-12 View on X
New York Times

A real life test to secretly follow a person using AirTags, Tiles, and a LandAirSea GPS tracker