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Google updates its inactivity policy: accounts inactive for at least two years will be deleted, except for those with YouTube videos, starting in December 2023 — In 2020, Google said it would remove content stored in an inactive account (but not the account itself) to preserve storage space.
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| CNBC: |
In an interview, Elon Musk discussed acquiring Twitter, defended his inflammatory tweets, called tech workers the “laptop class living in la-la-land”, and more — Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down for a sprawling interview with CNBC anchor David Faber on Tuesday following .
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins raise concerns over Google's new .zip and .mov TLDs, warning that threat actors could use them for phishing and malware — Cybersecurity researchers and IT admins have raised concerns over Google's new ZIP and MOV Internet domains …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Symantec says an APT called Lancefly used custom malware to attack governments, telcos, and other organizations in Asia from the middle of 2022 through Q1 2023 — A government-backed hacking group known as “Lancefly” has been seen using custom-made malware to attack governments, telecoms and other organizations across Asia.| Judith Bannermanquist / Cointelegraph: |
Crypto wallet startup Ledger faces criticism after unveiling an optional seed phrase recovery subscription service that some security experts say is insecure — Many members of the crypto community believe Ledger's latest seed phrase recovery feature is a bad idea. — 362 Total views
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researchers bought 228 phones from PropertyRoom.com, a top auction house for US police departments, and found many had not been wiped and had no PIN or passcode — Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without … | Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The US DOJ alleges former Apple engineer Weibao Wang stole Apple's autonomous tech, including source code, for a Chinese company working on a self-driving car — - Weibao Wang was charged with six counts of theft or attempted theft by prosecutors, who allege he stole troves of source code …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple touts $2B+ in App Store fraud stopped in 2022, nearly 3.9M stolen credit cards blocked, 147M+ ratings/reviews removed, and 428K developer accounts closed — Apple is out with a new press release today touting the success of the App Store's ability to prevent fraud.| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Tech companies are racing to run generative AI natively on mobile devices to reduce computing costs, but face hurdles like limited memory and processing power — Tech companies seek processing power in handsets to reduce computing costs and improve speed of AI chatbots
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| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
Belkin says the company won't patch a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Wemo Mini Smart Plug V2 disclosed on March 14 as the device is at the end of its life — Tricking a plug with a too-long name could lead to buffer overflows, injections. — I once co-owned a coworking space.
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Researchers find YouTube's algorithm recommended videos on guns and shooting to young gamers, despite the platform's policies against violent and gory content — YouTube says it delivers ‘responsible’ video recommendations. But its algorithms steered accounts for young gamers toward content on guns …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Washington Post: |
An investigation finds some US public housing agencies use surveillance cameras with facial recognition and AI to evict residents, sometimes for minor breaches — Surveillance cameras purchased with federal crime-fighting grants are being used to punish and evict public housing residents … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Volkswagen has held talks to use Huawei software in its cars in China, after its software unit Cariad was hit by budget misses and development delays — Turmoil at German carmaker's in-house software arm threatens to affect market share — Volkswagen has held talks to use Huawei software … | Financial Times: |
As Chinese companies recruit South Korean tech talent more aggressively, Seoul creates a database to monitor South Korean chip engineers' international travel — Seoul says US export controls have made Chinese companies more aggressive in acquiring expertise| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who joined Amazon in 2018's acquisition, sells startup Honest Day's Work to smart lock maker Latch and is set to become Latch's CEO — Jamie Siminoff has been busy. The Ring founder quietly exited the advisor role he took back in March after exiting the brand's CEO role.
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| Washington Post: |
The US announces charges, sanctions, and a $10M reward for info leading to the arrest of Russian national Mikhail Matveev, a Babuk ransomware campaign suspect — The Justice, Treasury and State departments announced a crackdown on suspect Mikhail Matveev, with economic sanctions and a $10 million reward for his arrest
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple rolls out new concert discovery features, including Set Lists in Apple Music for select artists and Guides to local venues in Apple Maps for select cities — Apple is bringing concert discovery to two of its flagship apps, Apple Music and Apple Maps, the company announced today.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM acquires cloud data protection startup Polar Security, a source says for ~$60M, and plans to integrate Polar into its Guardium unit, itself acquired in 2019 — Update: IBM has now confirmed the news and said Polar will be integrated into its Guardium unit (itself based on an acquisition from way back in 2009).
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Internal document: Google trained PaLM 2 on 3.6T tokens and 340B parameters, compared to 780B tokens and 540B parameters for the original PaLM in 2022 — - Google's PaLM 2 large language model is using nearly five times the amount of text data for training as its predecessor LLM, CNBC has learned.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Bolttech, a B2B2C startup that offers “embedded” insurance products, raised a $196M Series B led by Japan's Tokio Marine at a $1.6B valuation — Embedded insurtech is still hot, as the $196 million in funding landed by bolttech proves. The company, which started in Singapore …
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| Financial Times: |
Sam Altman tells Congress that AI regulation is “essential” but must let companies adapt to new tech, suggests safety measures and a licensing regime, and more — OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman called on US lawmakers to regulate fast-advancing artificial intelligence technology …
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