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DTH 2023 : DTH 4/14/2023 Today's date These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Friday, APril 14, 2023. I'm Rich Stroffolino. A new advocacy group for good-faith security researchers called the Hacking Policy Council launched this week. It's founding members include Bugcrowd, HackerOne Google, Intel, Intigriti and Luta Security. One of the groups first efforts will be lobbying for changes to the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act, which requires disclosing vulnerabilities within 24 hours of discovery, even if no patch is available. https://cyberscoop.com/new-hacker-advocacy-group-seeks-to-protect-work-of-security-researchers/ Twitter Blue subscribers can now post up to 10,000 characters per tweet, with support for bold and italic text formatting. Twitter previously increased subscriber tweet length to 4000 in February. The company also rebranded its Super Follows feature to Subscriptions, although the functionality largely remains the same, with accounts able to create paywalled content with three pricing tiers. The Verge also found a Twitter help page on the rebrand saying “we hope to include newsletters and other Twitter features as potential bonus content.” https://twitter.com/twitterwrite/status/1646674962055565319 --- https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23683082/twitter-blue-10000-character-limit-bold-italic-features-substack-newsletter --- https://www.engadget.com/twitter-replaces-super-follows-with-subscriptions-203711756.html The Washington state Senate passed bill HB 1570, which grants ride-hailing drivers access to the same paid family and medical leave program as other workers in the state. Washington previously passed the Expand Fairness Act last year, which set a statewide wage floor for drivers, paid sick time, and other protections. The program is expected to be available for drivers in July 2024. https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/13/washington-uber-and-lyft-drivers-win-paid-family-and-medical-leave/ The Ubisoft+ subscription service launched on Xbox consoles, with only the $18 a month Ubisoft+ Multi Access tier available. This provides access to a large portion of Ubisoft's titles, includes day-one access to new releases, supports swapping between Xbox and PCs, and provides access to DLC. https://www.engadget.com/ubisoft-game-subscription-service-officially-launches-on-xbox-163018760.html Meta open-sourced its Animated Drawings project, which converts drawings into animatation. Meta's Fundemental AI Research team released a web-based version of the tool in 2021, where users could submit a human-like character to animate. The company also released a dataset of about 180,000 drawings to use with the project. https://www.engadget.com/meta-has-open-sourced-an-ai-project-that-turns-your-doodles-into-animations-183807106.html Spotify announced a new “broadcast-to-podcast” technology which will automatically convert broadcast radio content into podcasts on its Megaphone platform. This will automate stripping out radio ads, placing podcast ad markets, and editing in intros and outros. Spotify estimates it could save up to 1 hour of work per episode. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/spotify-broadcast-to-podcast-radio-1235373000/ Microsoft announced it will bring Windows 11 to its HoloLens 2 headset as an optional update in June. The update won't bring any notable user-facing updates, but offer better app performance. Microsoft will also add in some developer-facing updates. The big one is Edge WebView2, which lets devs embedd HTML and JavaScript easily to apps and generally improved web-powered apps. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/13/23681505/microsoft-hololens-2-windows-11-update-release-date It was a big week for black and white photography. Leica announced its M11 Monochrom camera, with a 60 megapixel full frame black and white sensor, 256GB of internal storage, and a blacked out colorway (which means no iconic red dot). It's available for preorder now for $9200. If that's too pricey Ricoh announced the Pentax K-3 mark III Monochrome DSLR. It uses a monochrome APS-C 25.7 megapixel sensor and a similar muted colorway. It ships later this month for $2200. https://petapixel.com/2023/04/12/pentax-unveils-k-3-iii-monochrome-dslr-for-black-and-white-photography/ --- https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/leica-s-9195-m11-monochrom-camera-lives-in-a-gray-area-of-expensive-minimalism/ar-AA19ONa0 Apple committed to using 100% recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed batteries by 2025. In 2022, 25% of the cobalt used in its batteries was recycled, up from 13% in 2021. https://www.engadget.com/apples-batteries-will-use-100-percent-recycled-cobalt-by-2025-132837439.html Microsoft updated the SwiftKey keyboard on iOS and Android to now integrate its new Bing features. Anyone can now use its Bing AI integration in Search from the keyboard, while those signed in with a Microsoft Account with access to the Bing Preview can use its chatbot interface, and change the bot's Tone settings. https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/microsoft-swiftkey-ai-gpt-iphone-ios-android/ The parent company of the social network Parler, Parlement Technologies, agreed to sell the platform to the media company Starboard. Starboard will take Parler offline to eventually launch a revamped version. https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-set-to-be-shut-down-temporarily-by-new-owner-a88a51aa?mod=djemalertNEWS Reuters reports that over the last two months, the top 50 advertisers on Twitter spent 19% less on ads compared to last year. In this two month period, several companies are no longer in the top 50 on the platform, including Merck, Google, Meta, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and the snack maker Mondelez. https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-advertising-business-seen-facing-slow-recovery-2023-04-13/ Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported back in February that Apple resumed development on an iPhone SE 4 model that would use the company's own 5G modem. However in a new post, Kuo says the device referenced was actually an engineering prototype used in Apple's 5G modem validation, and that there are "no plans for mass production and sales." https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/13/iphone-se-4-release-unknown/ For more discussion of the tech news of the day subscribe to DailyTechNewsShow.com, [MWF] you can find show notes and links to all headlines there as well, [T-Th-Sat] and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check it out! http://dailytechnewsshow.reddit.com Thanks for listening, we'll talk to you next time. 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