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Sources: the US SEC sent a subpoena to OpenAI in December 2023, seeking internal records, after the board's decision in November 2023 to fire Sam Altman as CEO — Regulator is examining internal communications of CEO Sam Altman, after board last year temporarily ousted him for alleged lack of candor
More: Inc.com, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Axios, The Daily Beast, Benzinga, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, The Information, and New York Times
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Microsoft outlines the new DirectSR API, which lets game developers integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel — Microsoft has outlined a new Windows API designed to offer a seamless way for game developers to integrate super resolution AI-upscaling features from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.| Consumer Reports: |
Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video door bells sold by a Chinese company under various brands names on Amazon, Shein, and other sites — The devices are also sold by Walmart, Sears, and other retailers—and big platforms have faced few consequences for shipping flawed products
More: Ars Technica, PCMag, Cybernews.com, TechHive, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Gizmodo, and CR Advocacy
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Change Healthcare confirms that the ransomware group BlackCat is behind the ongoing attack that caused widespread disruptions to pharmacies across the US — - Change Healthcare on Thursday confirmed that the ransomware group Blackcat is behind the ongoing cybersecurity attack that's been impacting its systems since last week.
More: TechCrunch, CyberScoop, SecurityWeek, Cyber Daily, Cybernews.com, The Register, GovInfoSecurity.com, SC Media, and CRN
| New York Times: |
Sources detail Apple's $10B+ car project: years of disagreements over building a self-driving car or just an EV, talks with Elon Musk on buying Tesla, and more — Internal disagreements over the direction of the Apple car led the effort to sputter for years before it was canceled this week.
More: MacRumors, Digital Trends, Pixel Envy, TechCentral.ie, The Verge, The Verge, MacDailyNews, International Business Times, Telegraph India, iMore, autoevolution, Android Headlines, The Apple Post, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Supercharged, Washington Post, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/SelfDrivingCars, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail an ongoing repo confusion attack, which involves cloning existing repos and infecting them with malware loaders, impacting 100K+ GitHub repos — GitHub keeps removing malware-laced repositories, but thousands remain. — GitHub is struggling to contain …
More: Apiiro, Beyond Search, TechRadar, and Developer Tech News
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| Reuters: |
Coinbase says all services on its website have been restored after a “display issue” on February 28 caused some users to see a zero balance in their account — Coinbase Global (COIN.O) said on Wednesday that all services on its website have been restored after an issue earlier …
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| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
EA plans to cut 5% of its workforce, part of a plan that includes reducing office space and sunsetting some games; EA employed 13,400 workers as of March 2023 — - EA announced Wednesday that it will cut 5% of its workforce. — The video game company employed 13,400 workers as of the end …
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
X adds a feature that lets Spaces hosts enable live video when they create a new session, available on iOS — Spaces, the live audio feature for X, is now letting hosts turn on their video during chat sessions. The platform formerly known as Twitter announced the news on Wednesday …
More: Engadget, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, Mashable, MacRumors, and Social Media Today
| Washington Post: |
A review of court records shows US federal investigators used push alert tokens in at least four cases to arrest suspects in cases related to CSAM and murder — The ubiquitous phone feature has powered a surveillance technique used to catch suspected kidnappers and pedophiles.
Forums: Hacker News and Lobsters
| Lucy Fisher / Financial Times: |
The UK is piloting the use of ChatGPT and open-source AI models to analyze responses to public consultations and write draft answers to parliamentary questions — Initiative is part of Rishi Sunak's drive to boost Whitehall productivity through technology — UK ministers are piloting … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Stack Overflow launches OverflowAPI to give AI companies access to its knowledge base, starting with Google, which will use the data for Gemini for Google Cloud — Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly named OverflowAPI.
More: 9to5Google, The Verge, DEVCLASS, and MSPoweruser
| Morgan Sung / Rest of World: |
As Twitch shuts down in South Korea citing high costs due to new “sender pays” network rules, livestreamers struggle to use Korean rivals like AfreecaTV — The streaming giant attributed its departure to high network fees. — On February 27, Twitch officially shut down business in South Korea.| Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
The US launches a probe into possible security risks of Chinese-manufactured vehicles, saying modern cars are like smartphones and could be used for espionage — The Biden administration says software and digital connections in modern cars could be used to spy on Americans or sabotage the vehicles| Davey Winder / Forbes: |
Russian-speaking LockBit threatens to release Trump case documents in Fulton County Court that “could affect the upcoming US election” unless a ransom is paid — The LockBit ransomware group is threatening to release Fulton County Court documents related to Donald Trump's case unless … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Source: Embracer will sell its subsidiary Saber Interactive to private investors in a $500M deal, making Saber a privately owned company with ~3,500 staff — Saber will continue developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB will sell …
More: IGN
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia release free code-generating AI models StarCoder2-3B/7B/15B, the first two of which can run on most modern consumer GPUs — Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer …
More: Verdict, ServiceNow, TechRadar, Hugging Face, Software Heritage, VentureBeat, Neowin, SD Times, InfoWorld, and SiliconANGLE
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft launches a Copilot for Finance in public preview; the chatbot can perform some common role-specific actions in Excel and Outlook — - Microsoft is launching a Copilot for Finance, which it said will be able to perform a handful of common role-specific actions in Excel and Outlook.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Humanoid robot maker Figure AI confirms it has raised $675M at a $2.6B valuation and shows off a general-purpose robot called Figure 01 — - Figure AI raised $675 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI. — The startup says it will use the money … | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Gemini agrees to return the $1B+ owed to customers and pay a $37M fine in a settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services related to Gemini Earn — The New York Department of Financial Services on Wednesday announced a settlement with Gemini, the crypto firm founded by the Winklevoss twins … | Reuters: |
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposes subjecting carmakers to the Safe Connections Act to protect domestic abuse survivors from misuse of internet car systems — The chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a potential new rule that would subject automakers … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Substack debuts direct messaging, letting users have private one-on-one conversations; by default, users can only receive DMs from people they're connected to — Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the company announced today.
More: On Substack, Mashable, The Verge, and Engadget
X: @bristoliver, @decodingfoxnews, and @substackinc
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Brave launches its AI-powered assistant Leo, which can create real-time summaries of webpages or videos, generate long form content, and more, on Android — Brave is launching its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all Android users. The assistant allows users to ask questions, translate pages, summarize pages, create content and more.
More: Neowin, ZDNet, and Android Headlines
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
Filing: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi receives options to buy stock worth ~$136M after hitting a performance target to reach a $120B valuation for the company — Dara Khosrowshahi became entitled to award after meeting targets set before ride-hailing group's IPO
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