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Twitter vs. Elonjet: Another show on Twitter this week. The news first broke that @ElonJet, an account tracking the location of Elon’s private jet, had been suspended. And then Twitter-competitor Mastodon’s official account was suspended (Links to Mastodon flagged as “harmful”) Shortly after posting about jet trackers. And then all the tech reporters was suspended, at least some had tweeted about the jet tracker test. And then – yes, there’s more! – Elon joined a Twitter space that featured some suspended reporters (Twitter spaces don’t recognize/respect suspensions); After a few minutes of questions, Elon left the session Full Twitter Spaces feature Taken offline.
SBF arrest: Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange/Gordian Knot that has blown up so dramatically over the past few months, was arrested in the Bahamas this week. After some time, the The US Securities and Exchange Commission has announced Officially accuses SBF of defrauding investors, investigations into other allegations are ongoing.
OpenAI wants to watermark the things its AI writes: “Did a human write it or ChatGPT?” Kyle Vickers asks. “It might be hard to tell — maybe too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is why it’s working on a way to ‘watermark’ AI-generated content.”
NSA warns of exploits in popular networking gear: “The US National Security Agency warns that Chinese government-backed hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in two widely used Citrix networking products,” writes Carly Page. The flaw, which Citrix confirms is actively being exploited, allows hackers to run malicious code on devices often found on corporate networks.
iOS 16.2: Apple released the latest version of iOS this week, and Ivan Mehta takes a look at some of the cool features like end-to-end encryption of iCloud data, a karaoke mode for Apple Music, and public release. “Infinite Whiteboard” collaboration app, Freeform.
Instagram receives text-only posts: Have you ever wanted to post on Instagram without taking a picture? No? Me neither. But Instagram added a text-centric option this week, and it’s popular enough to make the cut on our top posts list — or, more likely, people are landing on our site after Googling what this new Instagram “mentions” thing is. Either way, they remind me of old-school AIM status messages — they’re short, ephemeral updates in your DMs rather than the main feed (see image below.)
Image Credit: Instagram
Audio Roundup
Equity teams may not be articulate, but they are very, Very much Clever – This week, after a few ridiculously unpredictable years, they dared Make some predictions Around 2023. The detected The podcast, meanwhile, features a conversation with Tiny Health founder Cheryl Siew Hoy about the importance of the gut microbiome — especially how having a good gut microbiome as a child can help prevent chronic health problems down the road.
TechCrunch+
TC+ is a premium, members-only section of the site where we step away from the news cycle and delve a little deeper into some of the things our readers say they love the most. Here’s what TC+ members read most this week:
A slide 99% of founders get wrong: Between his time as a reporter, a VC, and a startup pitch coach, Haje has seen more pitch decks than anyone I know. A common mistake he sees? It’s about “the question”.
How much money do you need to raise for your startup?: It’s a Haje double feature this week, with his second most popular post touching on a very common question: When it comes time to raise money for a startup, how much is the right amount?
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