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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps  —  Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto… Read More »Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks and should get “much better over the next few weeks”  —  Adam Mosseri says that Threads has had some… Read More »Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks and should get “much better over the next few weeks” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Financial Times: The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible  —  London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most… Read More »The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible (Financial Times)

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy  —  I have held back on writing anything about AI or how… Read More »Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy (Daniel Stenberg/daniel.haxx.se)

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: Peloton partners with TikTok to create an exclusive, co-branded workout content hub on the short-video platform, available in the US, UK, and Canada  —  The hub will be available on TikTok in the U.S.,… Read More »Peloton partners with TikTok to create an exclusive, co-branded workout content hub on the short-video platform, available in the US, UK, and Canada (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: MobiKwik, a Peak XV-backed Indian payments and digital wallet provider, seeks to raise ~$84.2M in an IPO, and plans to raise ~$16M in a pre-IPO round  —  Indian financial services startup MobiKwik seeks to raise… Read More »Filing: MobiKwik, a Peak XV-backed Indian payments and digital wallet provider, seeks to raise ~$84.2M in an IPO, and plans to raise ~$16M in a pre-IPO round (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut  —  – Robosense, a Chinese developer of laser imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors for… Read More »Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A look at the MVNO market as eSIM eases distribution; the global MVNO market is valued at $84B and is expected to grow 40% in the next five years to $116.8B  —  Technology is powering a… Read More »A look at the MVNO market as eSIM eases distribution; the global MVNO market is valued at $84B and is expected to grow 40% in the next five years to $116.8B (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development’s pace will keep accelerating, and more  —  The “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI” shows that the… Read More »A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development’s pace will keep accelerating, and more (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)