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Researchers find malicious code in versions of the compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into Linux distributions from Red Hat, Debian, and others — Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. — Researchers have found a malicious backdoor …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100B data center project with a US-based supercomputer dubbed “Stargate” to power OpenAI's products — Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer …
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LinkedIn: Chris Sharp and Anissa G.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Amazon's AGI team is aiming to outperform Anthropic's latest Claude models by the middle of 2024 using the company's forthcoming LLM, codenamed Olympus — This week, Amazon completed the second phase of a deal announced last September, when it committed to investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic.
More: The Decoder and GovTech
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 100 partners, including HeyGen — As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it's doing so responsibly.
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LinkedIn: Clayton Sims, Denys Linkov, and Paul Roetzer
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and r/OpenAI
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn confirms testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed; a demo shows a Video tab in LinkedIn app's navigation bar — LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. With this new test, LinkedIn joins numerous …
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LinkedIn: Austin Null, Jay Cuthrell, Madelyn Machado, and Robert Feranec
| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
EU's hostility towards Meta's “Pay or Okay” model is misguided as the model does not force users to use Meta's platforms and it has been deemed GDPR compliant — On Monday, the European Commission announced that it is launching investigations into Alphabet, Apple, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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| Axios: |
Source: the US House set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft Copilot; Microsoft hopes its upcoming tools will address the House's concerns — - The House last June restricted staffers' use of ChatGPT, allowing limited use of the paid subscription version while banning the free version.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
As Gmail turns 20 on April 1, a look at its impact on online communication and its future as other messaging apps have come to dominate how we communicate — Gmail revolutionized email with fast search and a whole gigabyte of storage. But where's it headed next?
More: Customers.ai. Threads: @joetaylorjr, @vicmsong, and @joetaylorjr
X: @edudzi_, @rosemanseth, and @vicmsong
| Colin Lecher / The City: |
NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law — The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker's tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income. That's not right.
More: Ars Technica, Quartz, Mashable, New York Daily News, NYC.gov, Cryptopolitan, Inc.com, Marcus on AI, and NY State Attorney General
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| Frank Landymore / Futurism: |
Many of Amazon's Kindles are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books on the lock screen, with some appearing to be flagrant copies of existing works — “I've never minded the ads on them... until they became flooded with AI-generated books.” — Amazon has been a huge staging ground …
More: Microsoft Tech Community, The Verge, and Social Media Today
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and recommends exporting podcast subscriptions to YouTube Music — U.S. users have just a few more days to make the transition from Google Podcasts as the company moves forward with the process of discontinuing the service globally.
More: TechCrunch, Google Help Center, and Android Police
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| Candice L. Odgers / Nature: |
There is no evidence that using social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness and blaming it can distract from effectively responding to the real causes — The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt Allen Lane (2024)
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