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Jeff John Roberts / Fortune : The US DOJ says it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more, evading ~$50M in taxes   —  The Justice Department announced on Tuesday it has charged Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with mail fraud and filing false tax returns. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ACnubRM via IFTTT

Shira Ovide / Washington Post : Game emulator Delta has been the top US iOS app for weeks, after Apple lifted its ban on such apps, likely due to regulatory pressure and alt stores in the EU   —  Antitrust crackdowns on Apple are already changing your iPhone for the better  —  The hottest iPhone app in America may owe … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/CmyJUnV via IFTTT

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more   —  The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/BGRgYah via IFTTT

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K dev accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022   —  Google blocked 2.28 million Android apps from being published on Google Play after finding various policy violations that could threaten user's security. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/OSwf62F via IFTTT

Lauren Feiner / The Verge : FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data to aggregators “without customer consent”   —  The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/sTbBj5W via IFTTT

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, allowing ChatGPT Plus users to tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats   —  Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER.  He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/YxyUqAk via IFTTT

Bloomberg : Sources: Tesla to clear a key hurdle to introduce its advanced assisted driving features in China by partnering with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions   —  The US automaker will then be able to deploy its autonomous driving services on the basis of lane-level navigation and mapping provided … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/E8ISJrg via IFTTT

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch : An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more   —  A decade is a long time in tech  —  A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he's led … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/LJ6O0Sa via IFTTT

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season   —  Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/JUNzBpA via IFTTT

Scott Nover / Fast Company : AI is making Meta's apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram   —  The intended and unintended generative AI flooding Facebook and Instagram.  —  Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/bead4zI via IFTTT

Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022   —  A view of Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States on March 23, 2024.  —  Advertising is so back. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/8rYVC4G via IFTTT

Washington Post : TikTok users with stigmatized interests or marginalized identities express anxiety over its potential ban, as rebuilding their communities elsewhere may be hard   —  President Biden signed legislation Wednesday that could ban TikTok, leaving users in the United States who have spent years building … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/04meu9L via IFTTT

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days   —  EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos to train AI models. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/sb8DWhm via IFTTT

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Google is testing “Speaking practice” in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills   —  Google is testing a new “Speaking practice” feature in Search that helps users improve their conversational English skills. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/OEJNyri via IFTTT

The Baltimore Banner : Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments   —  Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School's former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with crimes related … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/DQK4TaX via IFTTT

Kif Leswing / CNBC : As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P's worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company's missteps   —  Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks while showing silicon wafers during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/0Nge6QH via IFTTT

Kate Kelly / New York Times : Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business   —  U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat.  Congress is weighing legislation to ban it, prompting a lobbying campaign from the company … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/g78Rvsd via IFTTT

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018   —  Stripe, the fintech giant, continues to inch its way back into the cryptocurrency market.  On Thursday the company announced … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/jEkhX6O via IFTTT

Reuters : Sources: ByteDance prefers a TikTok shutdown in the US rather than a sale if legal options fail, deeming TikTok's algorithm as core to overall ByteDance systems   —  TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QH72lwZ via IFTTT

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg : US prosecutors charge two founders of the Samourai Wallet crypto mixing service, saying it facilitated more than $100M in money laundering transactions   —  - US prosecutors say Samourai Wallet was ‘haven for criminals’  — Europol has said crypto mixing services are a ‘top threat’ from Techmeme https://ift.tt/vXVklha via IFTTT

Brian McGleenon / The Block : Worldcoin subsidiary World Assets plans to sell WLD tokens to meet the demand for orb-verified World IDs and support Worldcoin network growth; WLD drops 7%+   —  - Worldcoin says its subsidiary World Assets may routinely sell WLD tokens to meet increasing demand for orb-verified World IDs and support network growth. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/xC2K0tb via IFTTT

A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope could make scaling up the production of pig organs simpler.  Pisano, who had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, underwent two operations, one to fit her with a heart pump to improve her circulation and the second to perform the kidney transplant. She is still in the hospital, but doing well. “Her kidney function 12 days out from the transplant is perfect, and she has no signs of rejection,” said Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who led the transplant surgery, at a press conference on Wednesday. “I feel fantastic,” said Pisano, who joined the press conference by video from her hospital bed. Pisano is t...

Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues   —  Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant's Phoenix expansion. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/iIFZ4n8 via IFTTT

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media : Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed “toxicity testing”, but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face   —  Microsoft deleted its WizardLM 2 LLM because it didn't go through “toxicity testing,” but it's already all over the internet. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/I5REF0A via IFTTT

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : HR software company Rippling announces a $200M Series F led by Coatue at a $13.5B valuation, up from $11.25B in March 2023, and a separate $590M tender offer   —  Last week, TechCrunch broke the news that the workforce management software outfit Rippling was on the cusp of closing a new … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/HlCtU4V via IFTTT

Nilay Patel / The Verge : Newsletter service Ghost says it plans to add ActivityPub support in 2024; rival service Buttondown also plans ActivityPub support   —  Interoperable social media is having a real moment  —  Open platforms keep gaining support out there — newsletter platform Ghost just published what amounts … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QAEaR2c via IFTTT