April 1, 20230CommentsHow GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen abandoned the company’s e-commerce push to refocus on its ~4.4K stores, leading to GameStop’s first profit in two years (Wall Street Journal)
April 1, 20230CommentsBinance plans to keep the $985M+ BUSD it moved from its industry recovery fund, launched in November 2022 amid FTX’s collapse, in its corporate wallets (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
April 1, 20230CommentsA Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after using an AI chatbot, which presented itself as an emotional being, for six weeks on an app called Chai (Chloe Xiang/VICE)
April 1, 20230CommentsFiling: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC in March, part of the 50K BTC stolen by James Zhong, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
April 1, 20230CommentsTwitter code behind For You tracks authors as either “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon”, says it’s to keep algo tweaks from harming any one group (Matt Binder/Mashable)
April 1, 20230CommentsGoogle confirms putting a limit of 5M files per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)
April 1, 20230CommentsSources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA (Josh Sisco/Politico)
April 1, 20230CommentsHackers exploit WordPress plugin flaw that gives full control of millions of sites
April 1, 20230CommentsQ&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
