Tue 10/12 – Twitter Lets Your Do Your Own Shadow Banning

Twitter lets you remove followers without having to block them. Magic Leap is back with a fresh $500 million dollars. Canva gets into video while 1Password wants to make it easier to share your password. Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained the largest AI language model yet. And when it comes to AI, is China about to dominate everyone else, or are they only focused on one thing? Sponsors: Masterworks.io/ride Gainful.com/techmeme Links: Twitter's tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget) Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios) A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency (Insider) Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch) Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch) 1Password's new feature lets you safely share passwords using just a link (Engadget) Microsoft said it mitigated a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest ever (The Record) Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models (VentureBeat) US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief (Financial Times)