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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)

ProPublica:
A look at OBNbrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' Instagram accounts and demanding payment for reactivation  —  Just after midnight on Sept. 13, Kristian “Murda” Murphy was watching TV at home in Boca Raton, Florida, when his phone began buzzing.

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)

New York Times:
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  —  The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people who downloaded the code.

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)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
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  —  - Yellow Card is the largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange in Africa.  — For its nearly 1.4 million users across the continent …

Eight current and former Apple employees share concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, utility, and unproven market (New York Times)

New York Times:
Eight current and former Apple employees share concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, utility, and unproven market  —  The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months.  Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.

Sources: Apple demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for a group of its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for a group of its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite  —  Apple's push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch.

A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly "lifestyle bible" Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly “lifestyle bible” Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap  —  Known as China's “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap.

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)

Stratechery:
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  —  I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March's GTC conference, and again after last fall's GTC …

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)

Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
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  —  New stock will start to vest after six months, according to an email  —  Twitter Inc. is offering new equity grants to staff …

Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI, with performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, more (Chloe Xiang/VICE)

Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI, with performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.

Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but forcing it to divest its US operations could undermine TikTok's ability to fight adversarial threats (Yoel Roth/Techdirt)

Yoel Roth / Techdirt:
Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but forcing it to divest its US operations could undermine TikTok's ability to fight adversarial threats  —  from the when-government-demands-backfire dept  —  Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting …

In his first visit to China since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple's "symbiotic kind of relationship" with China, amid Apple's moves to diversify from the country (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
In his first visit to China since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple's “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid Apple's moves to diversify from the country  —  Chief executive's visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US

LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry (Irregular Ideas)

Irregular Ideas:
LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry  —  There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT.

How to use ChatGPT on mobiles and PCs

If you haven't tried ChatGPT yet, here's how you can use it on your computer or laptop and mobiles. It is to be noted that there is no dedicated app for ChatGPT so people will have to use a browser, like Google Chrome, to run ChatGPT on their Android smartphones or iPhones. https://ift.tt/vaFo3y8

Binance suspends spot trading on its exchange due to an "issue" and says it is working "to resolve this as soon as possible" (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk:
Binance suspends spot trading on its exchange due to an “issue” and says it is working “to resolve this as soon as possible”  —  Bitcoin slightly dipped as Binance spot trading was suspended.  —  Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.