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Before Musk picked Yaccarino as Twitter CEO, she …

FILE - Twitter CEO Elon Musk, center, speaks with Linda Yaccarino, chairman of global advertising and partnerships for NBC, at the POSSIBLE marketing conference, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. Musk announced Friday, May 12, 2023, that he's hiring Yaccarino to be the new CEO of San Francisco-based Twitter, which is now called X Corp. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

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What to know about Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino

FILE - Twitter CEO Elon Musk, center, speaks with Linda Yaccarino, chairman of global advertising and partnerships for NBC, at the POSSIBLE marketing conference, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. Musk announced Friday, May 12, 2023, that he's hiring Yaccarino to be the new CEO of San Francisco-based Twitter, which is now called X Corp. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Secure messaging arrives on Twitter – sort of. ‘Don’t …

FILE - The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Twitter launched encrypted messaging Wednesday, May 10, 2023, offering select users the ability to communicate more securely. But its new service is much more of a baby step than a giant leap forward. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

‘BlackBerry’ film hails the must-have gadget that the …

This image released by IFC Films shows Jay Baruchel, left, and actor-director Matt Johnson, center, with cast members on the set of "BlackBerry." (IFC Films via AP)

Italy’s antitrust watchdog probes Apple over competition …

FILE - A huge publicity billboard is seen in downtown Milan, Italy, on Dec. 30, 2015. Italy’s anti-trust authority has opened an investigation into allegations that Apple is abusing its dominant position in the app market, officials said Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

How Europe is leading the world in building guardrails …

FILE - Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo, in New York, Feb. 2, 2023. European lawmakers have rushed to add language on general artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT as they put the finishing touches on the Western world's first AI rules. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Japan tech investor SoftBank sinks into second year of …

FILE - A man walks past a SoftBank shop in Tokyo on July 29, 2021. Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group reported Thursday, May 11, 2023, a loss of 970 billion yen ($7 billion) for the fiscal year that just ended — the second year in a row of red ink. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

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Mass event will let hackers test limits of AI technology

Rumman Chowdhury, co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit developing accountable AI systems, poses for a photograph at her home Monday, May 8, 2023, in Katy, Texas. ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and other major AI providers such as Google and Microsoft, are coordinating with the Biden administration to let thousands of hackers take a shot at testing the limits of their technology. Chowdhury is the lead coordinator of the mass hacking event planned for this summer's DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Maryland Supreme Court reverses ruling on digital …

FILE - A man using a cellphone walks past Google offices on Dec. 17, 2018, in New York. On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, Maryland's highest court reversed a ruling by a lower court that the state's first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising was unconstitutional, saying the court lacked jurisdiction over the case. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Tucker Carlson says he’s coming back with show on …

FILE - Tucker Carlson, host of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio on March 2, 2017, in New York. Fired Fox news host Carlson said Tuesday, May 9, 2023, that he will be putting out a “new version” of his program on Twitter. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Judge nixes Block shareholder suit over online music …

FILE - Technology entrepreneur Jack Dorsey leaves after his talk with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, June 7, 2019. A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition of majority ownership in Tidal, the music streaming service partly owned by rapper Jay-Z. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Discord forces members to change usernames, discord …

FILE - A display Discord stands at the company's booth at the Game Developers Conference 2023 in San Francisco, March 22, 2023. The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently fostered internal strife after announcing on Wednesday, May 3, that its millions of members will have to pick new usernames. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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