Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and some other celebrities with millions of followers say they won't pay for Twitter Blue (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

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Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

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GM's upcoming EVs won't support Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in favor of a system developed with Google, to help capture more data and subscription launches (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Roblox will now hide advertisements from users 13 and younger, nearly a year after nonprofit Truth in Advertising filed an FTC complaint against it (Jeffrey Rousseau/GamesIndustry.biz)

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Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers (Manya Saini/Reuters)

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Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users' Office 365 data (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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E3 2023 has reportedly been canceled (The Verge)

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Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed orgs that have been previously verified from paying $1K/month for a checkmark (New York Times)

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Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal (Chloe Xiang/VICE)

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Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini to compete with OpenAI's GPT-4, after Bard's stumble (Jon Victor/The Information)

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WeMeta: the median price per square meter of land in Decentraland has dropped from ~$45 in 2022 to $5 in 2023, as the hype around the metaverse has receded (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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Google launches an Ads Transparency Center, showing all the ads from verified advertisers on its platforms, in the formats, the regions, and the dates they ran (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in restructuring charges; EA had nearly 13,000 employees in mid-2022 (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

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As Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and others cut their responsible AI teams, experts worry about potential abuses, disinformation, and hallucination (Financial Times)

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Paris-based Glopal, which helps e-commerce merchants sell to global customers through localization, logistics, and payments services, raised a €20M Series A (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

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Micron reports Q2 revenue of $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., down from $7.79B YoY, and a record net loss of $2.31B due to an inventory write-down of $1.43B (Jeremy C. Owens/MarketWatch)

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Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Filing: a California court grants Twitter's request to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)

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Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later in 2023 and will become the first "touch-enabled board" to run Teams Rooms on Windows (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Review of 2K+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and surveillance systems to find and arrest scores of protesters and even prevent them from protesting (Lena Masri/Reuters)

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Clearview AI's founder says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users consent from sites like Facebook (BBC)

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Crewless container ships appear on the horizon Autonomous container ships are undergoing trials with crewless voyages planned in the next two years. March 24, 2023 at 06:00AM

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A look at the non-consensual deepfake porn economy, from finding services in top Google results to boosting them via ad campaigns on social networks and Pornhub (Kat Tenbarge/NBC News)

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Lyft cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer will step down from day-to-day roles as CEO and president in April; former Amazon exec David Risher will become CEO (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

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The CFTC's case vs. Binance is mainly about US clients, like high-frequency trading firms in NYC and Chicago, using an unregistered crypto derivatives exchange (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

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SEMI: in 2024, South Korea is forecast to increase its spending on advanced chipmaking equipment by 41.5% YoY to $21B, versus China's 2% YoY increase to $16.6B (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

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Apple releases iOS 16.4 with new emoji, Safari web push notifications for sites added to the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, and more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Sources: the Hong Kong arms of three Chinese state banks have reached out to offer services to crypto businesses in recent months, despite a mainland crypto ban (Bloomberg)

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A mid-March Midjourney update seemingly fixed one of the AI image generator's major failings: its inability to depict lifelike human hands with five fingers (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

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After India's legal requests this week, Twitter blocked tweets from 122 users, including reporters and politicians, from Indian users; it used to push back more (Samriddhi Sakunia/Rest of World)

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A look at OBNbrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' Instagram accounts and demanding payment for reactivation (ProPublica)

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Filing: some Twitter source code was leaked by a user called "FreeSpeechEnthusiast" on GitHub, which took it down to comply with a DMCA notice sent on Friday (New York Times)

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A profile of Atlanta-based Yellow Card, Africa's largest centralized crypto exchange, which has done ~$1.75B in transactions since 2019 and raised $57M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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A look at the community of users who "jailbreak" GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI's closed policies (Chloe Xiang/VICE)

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The hacker of DeFi lending protocol Euler Finance has returned 58,737 ETH, worth ~$102M, from the 96K ETH stolen in a flash-loan attack on March 13; EUL up 27%+ (Adam Morgan McCarthy/The Block)

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How Meta could sidestep ATT's impairments by launching a mobile games store, as Apple reportedly prepares multiple app store support on iOS due to the EU's DMA (Eric Benjamin Seufert/Mobile Dev Memo)

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Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the "aCropalypse" bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Replika restores erotic roleplay for users who signed up before February 1, after complaints from some who considered themselves "married" to chatbot companions (Anna Tong/Reuters)

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An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI's iPhone moment, DGX Cloud service, export controls, Nvidia's position in the stack in an LLM world, and more (Stratechery)

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Email: Twitter offers new equity grants to staff, in addition to legacy equity, that will start to vest after six months and plans a liquidity event in a year (Alexa Corse/Wall Street Journal)

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Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM which the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford's Alpaca model (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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A federal judge decides in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending program (Gary Price/LJ Infodocket)

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Sources: Fortra told GoAnywhere customers that their data was safe after a ransomware attack by the Clop gang, but two said they later received ransom demands (TechCrunch)

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TikTok says Enes Freedom, a former NBA player critical of China, was banned for 12 days due to an error by US moderators before being reinstated on March 23 (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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OpenAI blames a Redis client open-source library bug for the March 20 ChatGPT outage and leak that exposed personal info of ~1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Sensor Tower: Twitter Blue had 385K+ subscribers globally on iOS and Android and made just $11M on mobile in its first three months, including $8M in the US (TechCrunch)

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US prosecutors in New York charge Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon with eight counts, including securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg)

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Twitter Blue rolls out globally, but the subscription service is still missing promised features like prioritized ranking in conversations and half as many ads (The Verge)

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