Elon Musk says the new Twitter Blue will relaunch on November 29 "to make sure that it is rock solid", after pausing signups due to many fake verified accounts (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Elon Musk says the new Twitter Blue will relaunch on November 29 “to make sure that it is rock solid”, after pausing signups due to many fake verified accounts — Elon Musk says the new Twitter Blue, which lets you pay $7.99 per month for a blue verification check mark next to your name, will relaunch on November 29th.
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Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says "Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US" (Nikkei Asia)

Nikkei Asia: Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US” — Search engine giant ‘serious’ about beefing up equipment and software ecosystem http://www.techmeme.com/240427/p1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240427p1

Chatbots can lower the information barrier to help malicious actors build a bioweapon, making guardrails during chatbot development a good step for biosecurity (Steph Batalis/Foreign Policy)

Steph Batalis / Foreign Policy: Chatbots can lower the information barrier to help malicious actors build a bioweapon, making guardrails during chatbot development a good step for biosecurity — Artificial intelligence can help users engineer pathogens—but that's not the real danger. — Human extinction, mass unemployment … http://www.techmeme.com/231111/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231111p5

Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools — In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum … http://www.techmeme.com/240529/p37?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a240529p37

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