Saturday, April 8, 2023

Twitter changes the label on NPR's account to "Government Funded" after criticism about adding a "US state-affiliated media" label (Bobby Allyn/@BobbyAllyn)

Bobby Allyn / @BobbyAllyn:
Twitter changes the label on NPR's account to “Government Funded” after criticism about adding a “US state-affiliated media” label  —  The body of the article goes here.



Elon Musk claims Twitter never blocked Substack links and it was "trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone" (Matt Novak/Forbes)

Matt Novak / Forbes:
Elon Musk claims Twitter never blocked Substack links and it was “trying 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 Saturday.



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.



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 …



A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Joel Khalili / Wired:
A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates  —  US agencies are sparring over who gets to oversee the crypto industry, and companies are stuck in the middle.



OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a...