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Stripe will let customers accept crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, the first time it has taken crypto payments since 2018 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
 Samsung unleashes new computer memory technology that promises to accelerate AI to new heights — 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X RAM could be last one before expected game-changing LPDDR6 release later this year
Threads expands Hidden Words to let users filter out words, phrases, or emoji, and tests the option to mute notifications and ways to select who can quote posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Sources: ByteDance prefers a TikTok shutdown in the US rather than a sale if legal options fail, deeming TikTok's algorithm as core to overall ByteDance systems (Reuters)
Worldcoin subsidiary World Assets plans to sell WLD tokens to meet the demand for orb-verified World IDs and support Worldcoin network growth; WLD drops 7%+ (Brian McGleenon/The Block)
 Apple is reportedly developing its own AI servers — could it be gearing up to take on Nvidia and AMD?
Apple debuts OpenELM, a family of language models with 270M, 450M, 1.1B, and 3B parameters, designed to run on-device, pre-trained and fine-tuned on public data (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)
Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
Not only has GM sold driving data to insurers without telling users, but a GM app "bug" meant users who were enrolled in Smart Driver were told they weren't (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed "toxicity testing", but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
Taylor Swift's new album smashed streaming records; Spotify says it had 300M+ streams on launch day and became 2024's most-streamed album within just 12 hours (Chris Morris/Fortune)
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack, and the company paid a ransom to the hackers (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
 Some Samsung Galaxy owners are getting screen replacements to fix major issue