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Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer assigned to the project for migrating to a paid API made a “bad configuration change” — The high cost of cutting expenses — Twitter's website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed …
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Some Twitter services such as loading images and TweetDeck were down; clicking a link in a tweet gave the error “your current API plan does not include access” — Links and images were completely busted on Twitter for a spell on Monday across the company's website and mobile apps.
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Microsoft rolls out Dynamics 365 Copilot, an AI assistant that uses OpenAI's tech to draft contextual chat and email answers to customers and more, in preview — Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology …
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An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender — Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
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German police, Europol, the FBI, and Ukrainian police disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid €40M+ from 2019 to 2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use, no longer requiring an Office license or a Microsoft 365 subscription — Microsoft is making Outlook for Mac free to use today. … It's a surprise move that coincides with Microsoft's push to make its Windows desktop Outlook email client more web-powered.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Sources: The White House has given feedback on a draft bipartisan bill and is considering asking Congress for more legal powers to police apps like TikTok — In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok …
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At the National People's Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation from its tech hardware sector — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China's crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent … | Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: |
How buy now, pay later services became a popular target for fraudsters, sometimes helped by companies' loose underwriting process for customer applications — Seung Song said his identity was stolen and used to buy $5,000 worth of gun components from an online dealer using a buy now, pay later service.
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The EU says Meta agreed to improve transparency over WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy changes, letting users reject the changes and saying user data is not shared — Meta Platforms' (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by late privacy and tech luminary Peter Eckersley, meant to guide AI's evolution to safeguard humanity's future — Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying …
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| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it — Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At an all-hands last week, Sundar Pichai defended Google Cloud's new desk-sharing policy; an exec says ~35% of staff are in the office at least four days a week — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed employee criticism of the cloud unit's new desk-sharing policy at an all-hands meeting last week.Thanks:@mattrosoff
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