🏆 Bob Metcalfe, Co-Inventor of Ethernet Technology Wins Turing Award

Plus: Mozilla Launches Startup for Developing Trustworthy AI Systems, Spotify's $100 Million Diversity Fund Spent Less Than 10%, and more…

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Turing Award Won by Co-Inventor of Ethernet Technology. In June 1972, Bob Metcalfe, a 26-year-old engineer fresh out of graduate school, joined a new research lab in Palo Alto, Calif., as it set out to build something that few people could even imagine: a personal computer. After another engineer gave… (Cade Metz / The New York Times)

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Bob Metcalfe, who helped develop Ethernet, a computer networking technology that became an industry standard, was awarded this year’s Turing Award. The award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, comes with a $1 million prize.

nyti.msTuring Award Won by Co-Inventor of Ethernet TechnologyIn the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.

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Mozilla launches a new startup focused on 'trustworthy' AI. On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup. Called Mozilla.ai, the newly forged company's mission isn't to build just any… (Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch)

Mozilla @mozilla

Today we’re excited to announce Mozilla.ai We’re creating a company — and gathering a community — to build a trustworthy, open-source AI ecosystem. Learn more ➡️mzl.la/3JzcMl2

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Spotify Spent Less Than 10% of Its $100 Million Diversity Fund. Spotify Technology SA 's $100 million Creator Equity Fund, designed to promote diversity in music and podcasts following controversial comments by the company's star podcaster Joe Rogan, spent less than 10% of the money on that work as it rounded… (Ashley Carman / Bloomberg)

Ashley Carman @ashleyrcarman

scoop: last year, during all the joe rogan controversy, spotify's ceo announced a $100 million fund to amplify the work of creators from historically marginalized backgrounds. as the fund rounded out its first year, less than 10% of it had been spent

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Coinbase Gets SEC Notice Signaling Intent to Sue Over Crypto Offerings. Coinbase Global Inc. said it received a notice from the SEC formally declaring the securities regulator's plans to bring an enforcement action against the largest US crypto exchange, the latest development in a long-running dispute between the… (Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg)

Sonali Basak @sonalibasak

🚨 Coinbase receives Wells notice from the SEC, surrounding a whole host of businesses: Aspects of its exchange, staking service and wallet Coinbase says it doesn't require changes to its products -- it's "business as usual" -- and they "welcome" a legal process if needed

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Google and Microsoft's chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow. If you don't believe the rushed launch of AI chatbots by Big Tech has an extremely strong chance of degrading the web's information ecosystem, consider the following: Right now,* if you ask Microsoft's Bing chatbot if Google's Bard chatbot has been… (James Vincent / The Verge)

James Vincent @jjvincent

if you're worried about chatbots spreading misinformation, here's a grim portent: Bing said Bard had been shut down, citing a news story about Bard mistakenly saying it had been shut down, which Bard itself sourced to a random Hacker News comment: theverge.com/2023/3/22/2365…

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