Elon Musk offering no timeline for Twitter's “temporary” reading limits, and CEO Linda Yaccarino keeping mum, may give Meta a perfectly timed launch for Threads
With users in uproar over restrictions and outages … Jody Godoy / Reuters : Musk's Twitter rate limits could undermine new CEO, ad experts say BBC : Confusion at Twitter continues ...
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US. The app will be called Threads …
An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more
“This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023.
OpenAI's GPT-4 failed a CFA Institute exam, the finance world's self-styled toughest test, scoring eight out of 24, despite the answers being available online
Artificial intelligence versus arbitrary irrelevance — It's an algorithmic mystery box that inspires fear, awe and derision in equal measure. Tweets: @bgurley , @mbrookerhk , @ro...
Chinese protestors are holding up blank pieces of paper as a protest against censorship, leading platforms and censors to quickly remove the images
Protesters are using few or no words in public and online demonstrations to speak out against Beijing's zero-Covid policies
Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team
For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated
Sources: $300M of FTX's $420M raise in October 2021 went to Sam Bankman-Fried in a share sale he said was partial reimbursement for buying out Binance's stake
Cryptocurrency-exchange founder told investors last year that the share sale was partial reimbursement of money he'd spent to buy out rival Binance's stake
An in-depth look at the LUNA and UST fallout, as Do Kwon says he has been “devastated” but has “great confidence in our ability to build back even stronger”
Luna's relaunch might be the ultimate act of chutzpah by the South Korean entrepreneur
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations
Authorities in China have turned to sophisticated investigative software to track and silence obscure critics on overseas social media.
How China helps foreign influencers in the country who spread pro-China messages, funding their travel and generating lucrative, likely inauthentic, traffic
We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at. — It's the first in the world built inside a quarry.
State media says China is restricting online gaming for minors to three hours most weeks of the year, from 8pm to 9pm on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays
- The country is imposing its strictest limits yet on play time — Beijing is waging a campaign to groom productive youths
China starts a two-month campaign to crack down on websites and social media accounts that post financial information that “maliciously bad-mouths” its economy
China kicked off a two-month campaign to crack down on commercial platforms and social media accounts …
Sources: China is considering turning online tutoring companies into non-profits, which can't raise capital or go public, clamping down on the $100B industry
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Sources: China is considering turning online tutoring companies into non-profits, unable to raise capital or go public, clamping down on the $100B industry
- Edtech firms to be banned from going public, foreign capital — Vacation, weekend tutoring for school subjects will be banned Tweets: @pingroma , @haidilun , and @mbrookerhk Tw...
Graphika: Huawei officials retweeted messages from fake accounts on Twitter to spread a pro-5G influence campaign in Belgium; Huawei is investigating the claim
A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation. Source: Graphika .
Sources and documents: Zuckerberg and others shelved damning research into Facebook's polarizing effect, weakening efforts to apply its conclusions to products
and refuses to stop Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1317: Facebook knew it was polarising, ban Trump's Twitter?, how Bill Gates became … Anmol Mehrotra / Neowin : Faceb...
Inside China's ambitious program to dominate the emerging field of quantum technology, overseen by physicist Pan Jian-Wei, as it pours billions into R&D
China's drive to dominate a field with big economic and military applications outpaces some U.S. strides Tweets: @rokhanna , @keithboykin , @ritholtz , and @mbrookerhk Tweets: Ro K...