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Nikkei Asia: Customs data: Russia imported $570M worth of US chips from Hong Kong and mainland China from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022, despite US sanctions  —  Shipments from Hong Kong and China jumped tenfold after invasion of Ukraine  —  TOKYO/HONG KONG/TAIPEI — More than a year since … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: after Twitch cut ~15% of the staff who policed abusive or illegal content and folded an AI ethics team, ex-staffers worry content moderation will slip  —  Job cuts at Amazon.com Inc.’s Twitch division are raising concerns among former employees and content monitors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: Artifact, the personalized news sharing app started by Instagram’s co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score”  —  Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger’s article app is taking a page from Reddit’s playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts  —  OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram gives brands access to parts of its creator marketplace via two APIs and expands access to the marketplace for brand agencies  —  Instagram announced today that it’s extending access to parts of its creator marketplace via API to make it easier for brands to discover and work … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kali Hays / Insider: Sources: Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on generative AI after buying ~10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; source: the work involves an LLM  —  – CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play.  — Musk has criticized ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Laurie Clarke / VICE: Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks  —  Reddit moderators say they already see an increase in spam and that the future will “require a lot of human labor.”  —  LC Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pew Research Center: A survey of 10,701 US adults: ~66% aren’t confident current ways to trade, use, and invest in crypto are reliable and safe; 17% have used crypto vs. 16% in 2022  —  Cryptocurrency markets are taking hits from all sides – from declines in value to multiple corporate bankruptcies to lawsuits and regulatory threats. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app’s local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS  —  On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app’s data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker  —  Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider. Lees verder op Tech Meme