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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: PYMNTS.com, Inc.com, Axios, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, Benzinga, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, The Information, and New York Times
| 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 …
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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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| 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.
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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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| 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
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.| 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
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| 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 …
More: VentureBeat, IEEE Spectrum, FinSMEs, Axios, Financial Times, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, and The Robot Report
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| 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
More: The White House, The Verge, Benzinga, Associated Press, Reuters, CyberScoop, Semafor, Financial Times, and Wired. X: @fbermingham
| 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
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Doc: EU regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying software that competes with its Entra ID identity management service — European Union regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying security software that competes with Microsoft's … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Eight EU consumer rights groups lodge GDPR complaints with national data protection authorities, accusing Meta of coercing users with its “pay-or-consent” model — A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the European Union for an ad-free subscription …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba is cutting prices for over 100 core cloud products in China by up to 55%, and 20% on average, including data storage and elastic computing products — - Alibaba is trying to stay ahead of competitors like Tencent — Demand for cloud services is accelerating during an AI boom
More: Benzinga, CNBC, South China Morning Post, TechRadar, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Register, Forbes, and The Information
| 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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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
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