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| Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: |
The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure — The swift rebuke shifts attention to the Senate, where the bill faces significant political barriers and constitutional concerns
More: Associated Press, The Verge, CNBC, New York Times, The Verge, Axios, Washington Post, The Information, Financial Times, New York Times, Ars Technica, Reuters, The Hill, Washington Post, NBC News, SiliconANGLE, NPR, Digital Music News, New Jersey Globe, Variety, Engadget, NBC News, New York Sun, USA Today, Sean Hannity, CBS News, Just The News, Raw Story, Adweek, The Daily Caller, Rolling Stone, PCMag, Business Times, Washington Post, The New Arab, The Information, Yahoo News, UPI, W Media Research, Root-Nation.com, Wall Street Journal, TMZ.com, The Independent, Newsweek, Polygon, Washington Post, USA Today, PetaPixel, BroBible, Irish Examiner, TechCrunch, Washington Times, PhoneArena, Across Illinois, IL Patch, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Financial Times, and GSMArena.com
Threads: @kbode, @angry_staffer, @guillecummings, @eric_seufert, @silvermanbrandon, @repsherrill, @ezeekat, @drboblorinser, @ianbremmer, @jw, @jw, @johnnypalmadessa, @senfettermanpa, @yayitsrob, @ryanhatesthis, @mattnavarra, and @rbreich
Mastodon: @bigzaphod@mastodon.social, @evacide@hachyderm.io, @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone, @DataDrivenMD@fedified.com, @ingalls@pdx.social, @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io, @kellogh@hachyderm.io, @amaditalks@wandering.shop, @Mer__edith@mastodon.world, @nuthatch@infosec.exchange, @howelloneill@infosec.exchange, @GottaLaff@mastodon.social, @arroz@mastodon.social, @PattyHanson@mastodon.social, @thegibson@hackers.town, @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io, @kevincollier@mastodon.social, @willoremus@mastodon.social, @bigzaphod@mastodon.social, @dangillmor@mastodon.social, and @SomaFMrusty@defcon.social
X: @mkraju, @howardmortman, @senmarkey, @aoc, @jakesherman, @alexbarinka, @repmtg, @mikeisaac, @repjeffduncan, @repmcgovern, @boblatta, @conorsen, @ally_sammarco, @jason_kint, @committeeonccp, @neerajka, @carnage4life, @randpaul, @jakesherman, @repjames, @jingjing_li, @carnage4life, @senmarcorubio, @cspan, @repspanberger, @sahilkapur, @matthewstoller, @jakesherman, @mattdizwhitlock, @adamkovac, @tomselliott, @davetroy, @sahilkapur, @carnage4life, @mikeisaac, @mtracey, @reppfluger, @sachalouise, @govgianforte, @igorbobic, @jacobhelberg, @jonhaidt, @repthomasmassie, @stephenkentx, @matthewstoller, @willoremus, @repdanbishop, @atrupar, and @jwherrman
Forums: r/politics, r/politics, r/LateStageCapitalism, and Ars OpenForum
| CNBC: |
The EU Parliament approves the AI Act, voting 523 in favor and 46 against, despite competition fears; the Act, born in 2021, puts AI tech into risk categories — - The European Union Parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern …
More: European Parliament, BBC, The Record, TechCrunch, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Euronews, Politico, InfoRiskToday.com, Amnesty International, Decrypt, Ars Technica, PetaPixel, Reuters, Digital Music News, Forrester, GovTech, TNW, Bloomberg, CIO.com, Cryptopolitan, AIN.Capital, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, Android Headlines, and CCN.com
X: @thierrybreton, @ep_president, @prestonjbyrne, @luizajarovsky, @levie, @aifray, @epc_angela, @lipstickkranti, @europarl_en, @evamaydell, @amnestytech, @neilturkewitz, @lukolejnik, @digitaleu, @lukolejnik, and @ka_iwanska
LinkedIn: Georgios Plevris and Maarten Stolk
Forums: r/anime_titties, r/ArtistHate, and r/technology
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
YouTube revamps its TV app to make the viewing experience more interactive and giving greater prominence to chapters, comments, and video descriptions — YouTube is constantly tinkering with its app design across different platforms and screen sizes, and today, the company shared the latest changes coming to its TV-optimized app.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled The Don Lemon Show's partnership with X, hours after taping an interview with Musk on March 8 for the show's debut episode — The former CNN host interviewed the tech mogul last week, with the chat set to be the launch episode of his new ‘Don Lemon Show.’
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Threads: @crumbler, @dankim312, @kurtwag8, @vincedmonroy, @bymikebaker, @originalspin, @karaswisher, @hunterwalk, @kurtwag8, @kalihays1, @yasharali, and @brianstelter. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
X: @donlemon, @xbusiness, @elonmusk, @danprimack, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @kurtwagner8, @dylanbyers, @brianstelter, @charlesarthur, @brianstelter, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, and @kurtbardella
Forums: r/television and r/RealTesla
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Sora, set for release later in 2024, its training data, red-teaming Sora, working with the film industry, and more — In an exclusive interview with our columnist, CTO Mira Murati explains the company's new Sora AI video tool and how it plans to roll it out| John Callaham / Neowin: |
Microsoft adds GPT-4 Turbo to the free tier of Copilot, replacing GPT-4; Copilot Pro users still have the option to use GPT-4 — Microsoft is boosting the performance of its Copilot generative AI chatbot today. It has been confirmed that all free Copilot users can now access the GPT-4 Turbo large language model from OpenAI.
More: ZDNet, Thurrott, Windows Central, The Verge, Tom's Guide, XDA Developers, WinBuzzer, TweakTown, Windows Report, MSPoweruser, Search Engine Roundtable, and TechRadar
X: @mparakhin and @mikeschechter
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to release a unified Teams app on Windows 11 later this year, letting users switch between multiple tenants and personal or work account types — Microsoft is finally creating a single version of Microsoft Teams that will allow you to switch between personal and work accounts easily.
More: Windows Blog, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, Windows Latest, Thurrott, Windows Central, XDA Developers, Neowin, Lifewire, and MSPoweruser
| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind details SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills to play like a human; SIMA trained on No Man's Sky, Goat Simulator 3, and other games — Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills so it plays more like a human instead of an overpowered AI that does its own thing.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K+ waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024 — Waymo will begin offering a robotaxi service to the public in Los Angeles this week and in Austin by the end of the year …
More: Waymo, Associated Press, Reuters, Forbes, Electrek, 9to5Google, and Los Angeles Times
X: @waymo, @richontech, @patricksrail, @brianwilt, @snowmaker, and @yuris
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and Slashdot
| Ali Winston / Wired: |
An analysis of 3M+ Discord and Telegram chats in 50+ groups finds a global network of thousands of violent predators who target, groom, and extort kids online — A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange and @selenalarson@mastodon.social
X: @ttp_updates, @stevehuff, @andrewcouts, and @chrisd9r
| Washington Post: |
Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange and @KimPerales@toad.social
X: @viacristiano, @chrisd9r, @kbriquelet, @dlberes, @chrisd9r, @chrisd9r, and @roman_hoefner
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Spotify rolls out music videos on mobile and desktop in beta in 11 markets, including Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, and the UK, for Premium subscribers — Spotify is adding music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in some markets. They are tightly integrated with the company's music library …
More: Spotify, Engadget, Android Authority, Mashable, Tubefilter, Digital Music News, Android Central, The Verge, GSMArena.com, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, Cybernews.com, SlashGear, Neowin, MacRumors, TweakTown, Droid Life, Phandroid, iMore, PCMag, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Police, Gizchina, and Music Ally. LinkedIn: Darren Thompson
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft announces Microsoft Copilot for Security will be generally available on April 1, payable via a new Security Compute Unit that costs $4 per hour — - The Microsoft Copilot for Security will cost $4 per “security compute unit” when it becomes available in April.
More: Microsoft Security, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Journal, The Register, Neowin, Inc.com, CRN, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, ComputerWeekly.com, ZDNet, TechRadar, TechRadar, Petri IT Knowledgebase, PCMag, CSO, and Constellation Research
X: @chirag_mehta, @satyanadella, @msftsecurity, and @vasujakkal
LinkedIn: Andrew Bentley, Evan Williams, Yuliya Slesareva Godoy, Vasu Jakkal, Marko Lauren, Satya Nadella, and Shawn Bice
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Block starts shipping Bitkey, its $150 bitcoin wallet debuted in 2022, with a hardware device, mobile app, recovery tools, and Cash App and Coinbase integration — Block, the Jack Dorsey-led payment company, has released its long-in-the-works Bitcoin hardware wallet — but you can't use cryptocurrency to buy it.
More: Bitkey, Decrypt, The Daily Hodl, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, and CoinDesk
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum completes its Dencun upgrade, which lowers expenses on Layer 2 networks by storing data in “blobs”; a transaction that once cost $1 can now cost a cent — - Software upgrade reduces costs for so-called Layer 2 chains — Upgrade expected to spur on development of new apps and chains
More: The Block, CoinDesk, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, and Decrypt
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google paid out $10M to 632 bug bounty researchers in 2023 via its Vulnerability Reward Program, including $3.4M for Android bugs; the highest bounty was $113K — Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services.
More: Google Online Security Blog, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Android Central, TweakTown, Security Boulevard, TechRadar, TechSpot, and Android Headlines
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A US jury convicts Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov for operating crypto “tumbler” Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021, laundering 1.2M+ BTC worth ~$400M — Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., for operating Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021.| Reuters: |
Together AI, which helps developers access Nvidia server chips to train AI models, raised $106M led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation — Nvidia-backed Together AI said on Wednesday it has raised $106 million in a new funding round, doubling its valuation since last fall …
More: Together.ai, Salesforce Ventures, and Tech Startups
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Memo: John Collison says Stripe is in “no rush” to go public and its payment volume rose 25% YoY to $1T in 2023; source: Stripe hit ~$1B in Q3 2023 net revenue — Payments company has become a Silicon Valley bellwether as its valuation has risen and fallen over the past few years
More: Stripe, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Irish Independent, CNBC, and Bloomberg
X: @andrew__reed, @patrick_oshag, @dps, @vimota, @sammcallister, @collision, @patrickc, @georgenhammond, @angy_knill, @matthuang, and @pucknorris
LinkedIn: Wisam Hirzalla, Hemant Taneja, and Tamara Winter
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Cerebras announces the WSE-3, a TSMC-made 5nm chip almost the size of a 12-inch wafer with 4T transistors, up from 2.6T in the WSE-2, for training AI models — The race for ever-larger generative artificial intelligence models continues to fuel the chip industry.| Bloomberg: |
A February 21 hack of Change Healthcare has seized the US health care system for over three weeks, halting billions in payments; Change processes $2T per year — The Change Healthcare cyberattack brought the routine flow of billions of dollars in payments to a halt, putting medical practices under pressure nationwide
More: The Record, HHS News releases, CMS, WBUR, Reuters, Security Boulevard, Axios, CNBC, and Nextgov/FCW
X: @silvermanjacob and @thestalwart
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