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Bloomberg: Shou Chew’s answers to hostile questioning did little to calm the bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app  —  TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew’s appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Shou Chew’s answers to often-hostile questions did little to calm bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app  —  TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew’s appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Twitter Blue subscriptions roll out globally, but still miss some big features like prioritized ranking in conversations and seeing half as many ads  —  While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries), the expanded availability reflects … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon was detained in Montenegro while trying to fly to Dubai using falsified Costa Rican travel documents  —  Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was detained in Montenegro just over a month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: Do Kwon Arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister  —  The announcement was made by the minister of interior Filip Adzic.  —  Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.  —  Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance’s ownership of TikTok  —  Updated just now  —  In TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s first appearance before Congress, he struggled to address lawmakers’ worries … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Block drops 10%+ after Hindenburg Research discloses a short position and alleges the company overstated user numbers and understated customer acquisition costs  —  Hindenburg Research said on Thursday it held short positions in Block Inc (SQ.N), alleging that the Jack Dorsey-led payments firm overstated … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to spend $1B per year to produce movies for release in thousands of theatres, a big increase from years past, seeking to grow TV+ awareness  —  Apple Inc. plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theaters, according to people familiar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Yegge / Sourcegraph Blog: Why LLMs aren’t a dumb fad like crypto, but the biggest thing since the World Wide Web, and on the coding front, the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow  —  Heya.  Sorry for not writing for so long.  I’ll make up for it with 3000 pages here.  —  I’m just hopping right now. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Wolfram, Zapier, and others release the first third-party ChatGPT plugins  —  OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases.  —  OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme