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Prashant Jha / Cointelegraph: South Korean prosecutors identify ~$314M in illicit assets associated with Do Kwon and associates, and say Kwon converted most of the ~$69M linked to him to BTC  —  South Korean prosecutors have contacted Binance to request a halt on withdrawals linked to Do Kwon.  —  6397 Total views Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Tests show Twitter has lifted restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin’s, with some appearing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy  —  Elon Musk’s social media site lifts restrictions on Kremlin-linked tweets  —  Twitter has removed restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: An interview with Victor Wong, Google’s senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple’s ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here’s an exclusive peek into how it will work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Experts say that when ChatGPT confabulates, the bot is reaching for information not in its training data and filling in the blanks with plausible-sounding words  —  A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots.  —  Over the past few months … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics to Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export restrictions  —  Company registered to terraced house in London sent goods including semiconductors, according to customs data Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Twitter starts marking Substack links with a warning stating the link “has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe”  —  Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe.  If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Baidu sues “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake apps for its Ernie bot on the App Store; Ernie, launched in March 2023, doesn’t have an official app  —  Chinese search giant touts product as answer to U.S.-developed ChatGPT chatbot  —  Baidu lodged lawsuits … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”  —  Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR’s account this week … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Novak / Forbes: Elon Musk claims Substack links were never blocked and Substack tried 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Bob Lee’s murder in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the local 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme