Month: April 2023

Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded” (Aidan McLaughlin/Mediaite)

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”  —  Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR’s account this week …

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Russia’s New Mystery Shortwave Station

The Buzzer, also known as UVB-76 or UZB-76, has been a constant companion to anyone with a shortwave radio tuned to 4625 kHz. However, [Ringway Manchester] notes that there is now a second buzzer operating near in frequency to the original. Of course, like all mysterious stations, people try to track their origin. [Ringway] shows

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Baidu sues “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake apps for its Ernie bot on the App Store; Ernie, launched in March 2023, doesn’t have an official app (Reuters)

Reuters: Baidu sues “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake apps for its Ernie bot on the App Store; Ernie, launched in March 2023, doesn’t have an official app  —  Chinese search giant touts product as answer to U.S.-developed ChatGPT chatbot  —  Baidu lodged lawsuits …

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An interview with Victor Wong, Google’s senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple’s ATT, and more (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: An interview with Victor Wong, Google’s senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple’s ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here’s an exclusive peek into how it will work.

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South Korean prosecutors identify ~$314M in illicit assets associated with Do Kwon and associates, and say Kwon converted most of the ~$69M linked to him to BTC (Prashant Jha/Cointelegraph)

Prashant Jha / Cointelegraph: South Korean prosecutors identify ~$314M in illicit assets associated with Do Kwon and associates, and say Kwon converted most of the ~$69M linked to him to BTC  —  South Korean prosecutors have contacted Binance to request a halt on withdrawals linked to Do Kwon.  —  6397 Total views

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An interview with Victor Wong, Google’s senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple’s ATT, and more (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: An interview with Victor Wong, Google’s senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple’s ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here’s an exclusive peek into how it will work.

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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 (New York Times)

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.

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Elon Musk claims Substack links were never blocked and Substack tried to “download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone” (Matt Novak/Forbes)

Matt Novak / Forbes: Elon Musk claims Substack links were never blocked and Substack tried to “download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone”  —  Elon Musk broke his silence about the Twitter CEO’s conflict with the online publishing site Substack and one of its biggest writers Matt Taibbi on

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Organizing my pretty pile of garbage

Photo by Mia Sato / The Verge There’s really no other way to say this: I like to save trash. Receipts from favorite stores or meals, pamphlets and maps from trips, ticket stubs, and clothing tags — if some scrap is from a cherished memory or even simply well-designed, I tuck it away in random

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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 (New York Times)

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.

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Bob Lee’s death in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the tech community to become more involved in city politics (New York Times)

New York Times: Bob Lee’s death in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the 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.

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Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers’ cash after the failure of Signature Bank and is using at least one middleman to store funds (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers’ cash after the failure of Signature Bank and is using at least one middleman to store funds  —  As a stopgap, the exchange is using at least one middleman to store user funds on its behalf  —  The U.S. affiliate …

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