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As Palantir vies for a £480M contract to build a “federated data platform” for the UK’s NHS, experts say the company’s Foundry tool is costly and hard to use (Ian Johnston/Financial Times)
Ian Johnston / Financial Times: As Palantir vies for a £480M contract to build a “federated data platform” for the UK’s NHS, experts say the…
Sega acquires Rovio, best known for its Angry Birds franchise, for €706M (Jenni Reid/CNBC)
Jenni Reid / CNBC: Sega acquires Rovio, best known for its Angry Birds franchise, for €706M — – The deal would be for the entirety…
Contract docs reveal the Georgia National Guard plans to use location-based phone surveillance to target ads using geofences around 67 local public high schools (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Contract docs reveal the Georgia National Guard plans to use location-based phone surveillance to target ads using geofences around 67…
Netflix’s Love is Blind reunion episode, its second ever livestream, hits major technical snags, leading to a delay of over an hour (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Netflix’s Love is Blind reunion episode, its second ever livestream, hits major technical snags, leading to a delay of over an…
A US House Committee publishes a draft stablecoin bill, which proposes a moratorium on stablecoins backed by other cryptocurrencies, a CBDC study, and more (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A US House Committee publishes a draft stablecoin bill, which proposes a moratorium on stablecoins backed by other cryptocurrencies, a CBDC…
Q&A with Microsoft’s CVP of ads on keeping Bing Chat results from being too promotional, AI-powered search threatening publishers’ ad revenue, and more (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Microsoft’s CVP of ads on keeping Bing Chat results from being too promotional, AI-powered search threatening publishers’…
Sources detail Google’s project Magi, with 160+ people working full time on it, to enhance search with AI, as Samsung considers making Bing search the default (Nico Grant/New York Times)
Nico Grant / New York Times: Sources detail Google’s project Magi, with 160+ people working full time on it, to enhance search with AI, as…
An early look at the Jack Dorsey-backed federated social network Bluesky, which emulates Twitter’s looks and feels like a simpler, positive time on the internet (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge: An early look at the Jack Dorsey-backed federated social network Bluesky, which emulates Twitter’s looks and feels like a simpler,…
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created by Congress in 2000, accuses Shein and Pinduoduo’s Temu of data risks, IP infringement, and more (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
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…
Similarweb: Twitter’s traffic fell 7.7% YoY in March, the third straight month of decline, unique web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY (Shirin Ghaffary/Vox)
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Similarweb: Twitter’s traffic fell 7.7% YoY in March, the third straight month of decline, unique web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and…
Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at $13.85 on April 14, up from a $1.33 closing on April 11, taking its market cap to ~$164M (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at $13.85 on April 14, up from a $1.33 closing…
Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to new API rules (Matt Binder/Mashable)
Matt Binder / Mashable: Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to…
Google rolls out a Chrome security update to patch a zero-day exploited in the wild, a high-severity type confusion weakness in the V8 JavaScript engine (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google rolls out a Chrome security update to patch a zero-day exploited in the wild, a high-severity type confusion weakness in…
The US military, which uses Twitch and Discord for recruitment, struggles with the risks posed by Gen Z service members who live much of their lives online (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
Drew Harwell / Washington Post: The US military, which uses Twitch and Discord for recruitment, struggles with the risks posed by Gen Z service members…
Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after it initially refused government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after it initially refused government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools …
SEC reopens a draft rule, that expands its regulatory powers over crypto, for public comment, adding explicit language to cover digital asset and DeFi exchanges (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: SEC reopens a draft rule, that expands its regulatory powers over crypto, for public comment, adding explicit language to cover digital…
How Apple’s commitment to supporting old iPhones allowed it to capture a part of the US market once cornered by the inexpensive Android phones (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How Apple’s commitment to supporting old iPhones allowed it to capture a part of the US market once cornered…
Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV series and charge for content; JioCinema had 22M viewers for an IPL cricket match on April 12 (P R Sanjai/Bloomberg)
P R Sanjai / Bloomberg: Indian streaming service JioCinema plans to add 100+ films and TV series and charge for content; JioCinema had 22M viewers…
A look at OpenAI’s “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: A look at OpenAI’s “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as…