Biden Could Face Veto Test Over Contentious D.C. Crime Bill

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Physical 100: Are K-reality shows the next Korean cultural trend?

After Squid Game comes the hit survival-of-the-fittest reality show Physical 100.

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Memo: the Canadian government will ban TikTok from all federal mobile devices, effective March 1, "to ensure the security and protection of government systems" (Christopher Nardi/National Post)

Christopher Nardi / National Post:
Memo: the Canadian government will ban TikTok from all federal mobile devices, effective March 1, “to ensure the security and protection of government systems”  —  Directive comes as the federal government is embroiled in questions about foreign interference by China in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections

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Biden Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor

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M.L.B. Has Labor Peace, but Also Plenty of Posturing

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Delhi's Manish Sisodia arrested over corruption allegations

Delhi's deputy chief minister denies the allegations - his party says "dirty politics" is behind the move.

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Storm With Gusts Up to 110 M.P.H. Forecast to Hit Oklahoma

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Source: Esther Crawford, who became one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk's takeover, is out as Director of Product Management (Zoë Schiffer/@zoeschiffer)

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer:
Source: Esther Crawford, who became one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk's takeover, is out as Director of Product Management  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out.

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West Bank Attack Kills 2 Israelis as Middle East Officials Meet in Jordan

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Israel and Palestinians pledge to reduce violence

As rare talks were held in Jordan, a Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis in the occupied West Bank.

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Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board, after the startup offered a "pay to play" deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times:
Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board, after the startup offered a “pay to play” deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round  —  Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals

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Experts caution the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond toward automation, creating a dangerous slippery slope (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
Experts caution the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond toward automation, creating a dangerous slippery slope  —  Drones that can find their own targets already exist, making machine-versus-machine conflict just a software update away.

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Shinta Ratri, Fighter for Transgender Rights in Indonesia, Dies at 60

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The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased  —  ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing  —  Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns …

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China to Welcome Belarusian Leader, Raising Concerns Over Ukraine

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G20 meeting deadlocked over calling out Ukraine war

Russia and China refused to condemn Moscow's invasion at a meeting of finance ministers in India.

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HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22, claims users will be able to replace its battery in around 5 minutes and screen in 20 minutes using a kit from iFixit (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22, claims users will be able to replace its battery in around 5 minutes and screen in 20 minutes using a kit from iFixit  —  HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen, charging port …

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Canada's second-largest telecom TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a hacker put up private GitHub repositories and payroll records for sale (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:
Canada's second-largest telecom TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a hacker put up private GitHub repositories and payroll records for sale  —  Canada's second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to be employee data.

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Spencer, the Dog for Whom Boston Marathoners Happily Stopped, Dies at 13

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US ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh admits he stole millions for drugs

The former lawyer accused of murdering his wife and son had a powerful 60-pill-a-day opiate habit.

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Financial institutions like BofA, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase are restricting internal use of tools like ChatGPT (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Financial institutions like BofA, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase are restricting internal use of tools like ChatGPT  —  Wall Street is clamping down on ChatGPT as a slew of global investment banks impose restrictions on the fast-growing technology …

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Right Wing or Woke? The Complicated Politics of ‘Yellowstone.’

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Meta releases a new foundational LLM called Large Language Model Meta AI, or LLaMA, available in sizes ranging from 7B to 65B parameters, to help AI researchers (Meta AI)

Meta AI:
Meta releases a new foundational LLM called Large Language Model Meta AI, or LLaMA, available in sizes ranging from 7B to 65B parameters, to help AI researchers  —  As part of Meta's commitment to open science, today we are publicly releasing LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) …

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Ukraine uses strikes on occupied Mariupol to suggest it now has longer-range weapons.

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R. Kelly gets extra prison time after latest sex abuse conviction

The disgraced singer is sentenced to 20 years, but 19 will be served alongside an existing term.

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Jamf finds Mac cryptomining malware in pirated copies of Final Cut Pro and warns the power of Apple Silicon Macs is making them popular cryptojacking targets (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac:
Jamf finds Mac cryptomining malware in pirated copies of Final Cut Pro and warns the power of Apple Silicon Macs is making them popular cryptojacking targets  —  Update: Apple has now commented on the findings - see the end of the piece.  —  Cybersecurity company Jamf Threat Labs …

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Nicholas Kristof and Samantha Power on the Ukraine invasion one year later

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Samsung Galaxy S23 review: much improved battery life, sensibly sized, and top-notch performance, but 3x telephoto lens is short and Samsung's One UI is average (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy S23 review: much improved battery life, sensibly sized, and top-notch performance, but 3x telephoto lens is short and Samsung's One UI is average  —  The Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus are the very definition of iterative updates.  They're still some of the best high-end mobile devices out there …

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Investigation

By BY MAGGIE HABERMAN AND MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/P5zNkmJ

Superintendent Resigns After Third Grader Found His Gun in School Bathroom

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‘Parade’ Producers Condemn Neo-Nazi Protest at Show About Antisemitism

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Heavy Snow Hits Several States

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Artifact, the personalized news reader created by Instagram's co-founders, opens to the public, with new features and no sign-up required, on Android and iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Artifact, the personalized news reader created by Instagram's co-founders, opens to the public, with new features and no sign-up required, on Android and iOS  —  Artifact, the personalized news reader built by Instagram's co-founders, is now open to the public, no sign-up required.

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Ukraine prepares itself for the possibility of Russian aggression via Moldova and Belarus.

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Sources: Apple hit major milestones in a Jobs-era project to develop noninvasive blood glucose monitoring, as part of its Google X-like Exploratory Design Group (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple hit major milestones in a Jobs-era project to develop noninvasive blood glucose monitoring, as part of its Google X-like Exploratory Design Group  —  Apple Inc. has a moonshot-style project underway that dates back to the Steve Jobs era: noninvasive and continuous blood glucose monitoring.

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Israel Unlikely to Extradite Mexican Ex-Lawman Wanted in Mass Abduction, Officials Say

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Kenya to investigate 'sex for work' exposed in BBC tea documentary

Parliament orders an inquiry after dozens of women speak of abuse on British-operated tea farms.

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Sci-fi outlet Clarkesworld suspends short story submissions, citing a surge in AI-generated stories, saying those who submit as looking to make "a quick buck" (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag:
Sci-fi outlet Clarkesworld suspends short story submissions, citing a surge in AI-generated stories, saying those who submit as looking to make “a quick buck”  —  Clarkesworld speculates that people are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word for accepted stories.

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Biden and Putin offer radically different portraits of the war in Ukraine.

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Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February, as some worry that the AI boom could turn the craft into a commodity (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February, as some worry that the AI boom could turn the craft into a commodity  —  Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it.

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Preqin data: in Q4 2022, VC firms raised $20.6B in new funds, down 65% YoY, the lowest Q4 amount since 2013; LPs backed 226 funds, the fewest in Q4 since 2012 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Preqin data: in Q4 2022, VC firms raised $20.6B in new funds, down 65% YoY, the lowest Q4 amount since 2013; LPs backed 226 funds, the fewest in Q4 since 2012  —  Slowdown that earlier hit tech startups catches up with investors who fuel venture capital  —  Fundraising by venture-capital firms hit …

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