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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is backing 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit that Craig Wright filed to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own  —  It's not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned  —  A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims … http://www.techmeme.com/230429/p7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230429p7

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve  —  Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve … http://www.techmeme.com/230429/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230429p6

Forbes: Filing and sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is raising a $330M Series F at a ~$4.2B valuation, up from its $2.7B valuation for its Series E in June 2021  —  The funding, revealed in a filing, shows that the logistics company priced a $330 million Series F funding round in April. http://www.techmeme.com/230428/p15?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230428p15

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pinterest announces a multi-year strategic ad partnership with Amazon, its first ads partner, to bring more brands and relevant products to the social network  —  Pinterest today announced a multiyear strategic ad partnership with Amazon aimed at bringing more brands and relevant products to its platform. http://www.techmeme.com/230427/p35?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230427p35

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Meta says time spent on Instagram grew 24%+ since Reels launched thanks to AI recommendations, and expects Reels to be revenue-neutral by year end or early 2024  —  Meta shared some updated engagement info around its platforms on its Q1 2023 quarterly earnings call on Wednesday … http://www.techmeme.com/230426/p29?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230426p29

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: News sharing app Artifact adds an AI tool to generate article summaries, while noting users should still read the full articles due to occasional errors  —  Artifact, the personalized news aggregator from Instagram's founders is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will now summarize news articles for you. http://www.techmeme.com/230425/p41?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230425p41

Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal claims 20M+ DAUs and is testing letting users post three snapshots per day; Apptopia: BeReal had less than 6M DAUs in March 2023 and ~15M in October 2022  —  BeReal, Apple's iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it's still going strong. http://www.techmeme.com/230424/p18?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230424p18

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple XR headset's external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple's app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users  —  Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset's features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product. http://www.techmeme.com/230423/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230423p6

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which feature primates in similar poses to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violate Yuga Labs' BAYC trademarks  —  Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps' RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled http://www.techmeme.com/230423/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230423p5

Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg: Sources: President Biden plans to sign an EO in the coming weeks limiting new investments by US businesses in China, focused on chips, AI, and quantum computing  —  President Joe Biden aims to sign an executive order in the coming weeks that will limit investment in key parts of China's economy … http://www.techmeme.com/230422/p7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230422p7

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Documents, photos, and videos show TikTok's US datacenters have faced security failures and use servers made by Inspur, which the US sanctioned in March 2023  —  Other security issues at the sites have included unattended boxes of hard drives, illicit crypto mining, and a sanctioned supplier. http://www.techmeme.com/230421/p17?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230421p17

Jon Porter / The Verge: Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”  —  The change is apparent on Twitter accounts for several Verge writers and other journalists like LA Times reporter Matt Pearce … http://www.techmeme.com/230420/p22?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230420p22

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Google announces Google DeepMind, a unit combining DeepMind's team and Google Research's Brain team, to be led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis as its CEO  —  Search giant merges AI resources to accelerate progress in technology that is reshaping business http://www.techmeme.com/230420/p21?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230420p21

Michael Kan / PCMag: After Microsoft Advertising said it was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” over training “illegally using Twitter data”  —  Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants … http://www.techmeme.com/230419/p32?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230419p32

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Microsoft and Epic Systems partner to bring Azure OpenAI services, including GPT-4, to help automate some processes in Epic's electronic health record software  —  Generative AI promises to streamline health care, but critics say not so fast.  —  On Monday, Microsoft and Epic Systems announced … http://www.techmeme.com/230418/p30?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230418p30

Jordan Pearson / VICE: A winner at the Sony World Photography Awards rejects the award, saying his submission was AI-generated and meant to test if such competitions were ready for AI  —  A winner at this year's Sony World Photography Awards wasn't a photo at all.  —  Jordan Pearson http://www.techmeme.com/230417/p18?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230417p18

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created by Congress in 2000, accuses Shein and Pinduoduo's Temu of data risks, IP infringements, and more  —  Chinese-backed digital platforms Shein and Temu have become the latest targets of the US government, after an official report raised concerns … http://www.techmeme.com/230416/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230416p3

P R Sanjai / Bloomberg: Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV shows and charge for content; an IPL cricket match on April 12 drew 22M viewers on JioCinema  —  Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's streaming service will add more than 100 films and TV series to its platform, building on the popularity … http://www.techmeme.com/230415/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230415p5

Associated Press: Court docs: the FBI used Discord billing records to help identify Jack Teixeira, the Air National guardsman who allegedly leaked classified Pentagon documents  —  A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of highly classified military documents appeared in court Friday … http://www.techmeme.com/230414/p14?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230414p14

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures”  —  One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a ramsom. http://www.techmeme.com/230413/p24?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230413p24

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Italy outlines compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT suspension order, requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing, adopt age gating, and more  —  Italy's data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month … http://www.techmeme.com/230412/p36?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230412p36

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System and seven critical RCE vulnerabilities  —  Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws. http://www.techmeme.com/230411/p30?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230411p30

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Katie Cotton, Apple's former VP of worldwide communications for 18 years, who mostly worked directly for Steve Jobs before retiring in 2014, died on April 6  —  Katie Cotton, a longtime Apple Inc. communications chief who served as a steward for the company's iconic brand during the Steve Jobs era and beyond, has died. http://www.techmeme.com/230410/p17?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230410p17

Nathan Lambert / Democratizing Automation: An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout  —  Fear, FOMO, and the scientific exodus driven by ChatGPT  —  Every single person I know working in AI these days … http://www.techmeme.com/230409/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230409p3

New York Times: Bob Lee's murder in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the local tech community to become more involved in city politics  —  Bob Lee's death has stirred outrage among tech leaders and comes at a precarious time for the industry — and the city it calls home. http://www.techmeme.com/230408/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230408p6

TechCrunch: Anthropic's Series C pitch deck shows the AI startup aims to raise up to $5B over the next two years to take on OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries  —  Anthropic plans to train a powerful model with billions in new funding  —  AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise … http://www.techmeme.com/230407/p10?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230407p10

Reuters: Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 on an internal messaging system, including a child being hit by a car  —  Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” http://www.techmeme.com/230406/p18?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230406p18

Kevin Varley / Bloomberg: US Census data: chip imports rose 17% YoY to $4.86B in February 2023 with Asia accounting for 83%, led by Malaysia at 20%, Taiwan at 15.1%, and Vietnam at 11.6%  —  Thailand, Vietnam, India and Cambodia have emerged as early winners this year as semiconductor production begins to move away … http://www.techmeme.com/230406/p17?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230406p17

Washington Post: Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor  —  The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence http://www.techmeme.com/230405/p35?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230405p35

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February 2023: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat vs. fall 2022, and only 4% used it daily  —  - Virtual reality hasn't caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. http://www.techmeme.com/230404/p25?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230404p25

Bloomberg: Sources: Chris Inglis, the first US cyber director, resigned largely over large and small clashes with Anne Neuberger, another senior cybersecurity official  —  On March 2, US President Joe Biden's administration proposed some of the most aggressive measures to fight cyberattacks to date. http://www.techmeme.com/230403/p22?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230403p22

Washington Post: Sources: SVB bought long-term assets that paid more interest based on a misplaced profit-driven strategy, falling out of compliance with its internal risk model  —  Focused on profits, leaders made decisions that foreshadowed the bank's surprise failure  —  Flush with cash from a booming … http://www.techmeme.com/230402/p2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230402p2

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Binance plans to keep the $985M+ BUSD the company moved from its industry recovery fund, launched in November 2022 amid FTX's collapse, in its corporate wallets  —  Founder and CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as “CZ”  —  In the wake of FTX's collapse in November … http://www.techmeme.com/230401/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230401p3

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution  —  The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia http://www.techmeme.com/230331/p17?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230331p17