March 2, 20230CommentsEmail app BlueMail’s co-founder says Apple blocked an update that added ChatGPT-powered features over inappropriate content concerns, requiring a 17+ age limit (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal)
March 2, 20230CommentsMicrosoft updates its Bing chatbot to let users toggle between creative, balanced, and precise tones, hoping to counter Bing’s wild outbursts (Tom Warren/The Verge)
March 2, 20230CommentsThe Biden administration releases its cybersecurity strategy, seeking to impose minimum standards, shift responsibility to larger software makers, and more (CyberScoop)
March 2, 20230CommentsAfter a report said Binance misplaced ~$1.8B in USDC, Binance offered confused and sometimes contradictory responses, continuing its petulant and defensive tone (David Z. Morris/CoinDesk)
March 2, 20230CommentsSnap plans to let Snapchat users pause Streaks by buying Streak Restores for $0.99 each time and will soon let Snapchat+ subscribers pause Streaks indefinitely (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
March 2, 20230CommentsAfter Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
March 2, 20230CommentsA profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do (Elizabeth Weil/New York Magazine)
March 2, 20230CommentsStaff and analysts: the ~$43B FIS-Worldpay deal suffered from incompatibility, Worldpay’s slow response to changing user needs, and more, resulting in the split (Financial Times)
March 2, 20230CommentsChina’s Big Fund pledged to invest ~$1.9B in memory chipmaker YMTC, suggesting Beijing is again increasing spending on its beleaguered industry after US curbs (Bloomberg)