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Australia drops plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online (Sam McKeith/Reuters)
Sam McKeith / Reuters: Australia drops plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online — Australia's government said on Sunday it had dropped plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online.
Published: 2024-11-24 00:45:14
Six months into a deal with OpenAI, Spanish bank BBVA says staff created 2,900+ GPTs and reported productivity gains, but questions ChatGPT's scalability (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Six months into a deal with OpenAI, Spanish bank BBVA says staff created 2,900+ GPTs and reported productivity gains, but questions ChatGPT's scalability — The bank is evaluating its next steps after seeing early productivity gains from OpenAI's enterprise tool
Published: 2024-11-23 23:30:02
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft (Shawn Musgrave/The Intercept)
Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept: A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft — The Intercept's lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline.
Published: 2024-11-23 21:30:00
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5 (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5 — Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges — Meta's Threads is losing ground …
Published: 2024-11-23 20:00:13
ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a "credible exit" (Christine Lemmer-Webber/Dustycloud ...)
Christine Lemmer-Webber / Dustycloud Brainstorms: ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a “credible exit” — Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular …
Published: 2024-11-23 19:05:10
Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies (New York Times)
New York Times: Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies — Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security …
Published: 2024-11-23 18:20:05
Around 56% of the $8.2B in financial remedies that the US SEC obtained in FY 2024 is attributable to a monetary judgment against Terraform Labs and Do Kwon (Nicola M. White/Bloomberg)
Nicola M. White / Bloomberg: Around 56% of the $8.2B in financial remedies that the US SEC obtained in FY 2024 is attributable to a monetary judgment against Terraform Labs and Do Kwon — The agency's enforcement actions led to $8.2 billion in penalties and reimbursement to investors, though the number …
Published: 2024-11-23 17:20:02
Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, who has known Elon Musk for several years, has sought Musk's counsel in recent weeks on the incoming Trump administration (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, who has known Elon Musk for several years, has sought Musk's counsel in recent weeks on the incoming Trump administration — Popular video app and Chinese parent ByteDance view rival social-media owner as conduit to the president-elect
Published: 2024-11-23 16:05:13
Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place (Victoria Song/The Verge)
Victoria Song / The Verge: Strava's new API rules for third parties will make it harder for users across dozens of fitness apps and wearables to integrate their fitness data in one place — It might seem odd for one app's users to fume over an API, but at the heart of the matter is the inherent messiness of fitness data.
Published: 2024-11-23 14:55:13
A look at challenges facing Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, including the company falling behind in the AI chip race and discontent from employees (Financial Times)
Financial Times: A look at challenges facing Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, including the company falling behind in the AI chip race and discontent from employees — Chip woes and labour unrest test the mettle of third-generation leader of South Korea's most valuable company
Published: 2024-11-23 13:45:01
An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans (Reuters)
Reuters: An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans — OnlyFans gives women the chance to earn money by making porn. Sex traffickers also use the platform to abuse and exploit them, say police and prosecutors.
Published: 2024-11-23 10:40:23
A look at the disagreements in the US government over setting up a US Cyber Force, as the Pentagon formally asked Congress to reject the proposal in September (Barbara Booth/CNBC)
Barbara Booth / CNBC: A look at the disagreements in the US government over setting up a US Cyber Force, as the Pentagon formally asked Congress to reject the proposal in September — A recent Chinese cyber-espionage attack inside the nation's major telecom networks that may have reached as high as the communications …
Published: 2024-11-23 07:35:01
Analysis: Sequoia Capital marked up its 2020 flagship US VC fund, which closed at ~$808M in 2022, by 24.6% in the 12 months ended in June 2024, with no exits (Rosie Bradbury/PitchBook)
Rosie Bradbury / PitchBook: Analysis: Sequoia Capital marked up its 2020 flagship US VC fund, which closed at ~$808M in 2022, by 24.6% in the 12 months ended in June 2024, with no exits — Sequoia Capital, one of the world's largest venture firms, marked up its 2020 flagship US venture fund by 24.6% in the 12 months ended in June …
Published: 2024-11-23 07:15:01
Jensen Huang urged global cooperation and highlighted China's contributions to AI, as he accepted an honorary doctorate degree in engineering in Hong Kong (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Jensen Huang urged global cooperation and highlighted China's contributions to AI, as he accepted an honorary doctorate degree in engineering in Hong Kong — - CEO Jensen Huang highlights China's contributions to AI — Huang has voiced support for the incoming Trump administration
Published: 2024-11-23 06:50:00
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks (New York Times)
New York Times: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks — The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment …
Published: 2024-11-23 06:35:15
