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An in-depth look inside the US DOJ and Volexity's investigation into the SolarWinds hack, one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage campaigns of the decade — The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple and Google submit a proposed industry specification to help combat unwanted location tracking by Bluetooth devices and ask for input from other companies — - Apple and Google said that they are working together to prevent lost item trackers like Apple's AirTag from being used to track people without their permission.
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years — International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, the FBI, and others take down the dark web Monopoly Market, arrest 288 vendors and customers, and seize €50.8M in cash and crypto and 850kg of drugs — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘SpecTor’ has arrested 288 dark web vendors and customers worldwide …
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| Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
The Writers Guild of America strikes after negotiations over pay and AI issues with Netflix, Disney, Apple, Amazon, Sony, and others failed; nearly 12K may join — The Writers Guild of America, the union that bargains on behalf of Hollywood's screenwriters, has called a strike after negotiations …
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
A profile of and interview with deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, including why he now thinks neural networks are “a new and better form of intelligence” — “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.”
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| Adam Conway / XDA Developers: |
Leak: the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra foldable will have a 2640x1080 HDR AMOLED 120Hz main and 1056x1066 cover display, a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, and up to 12GB of RAM — Motorola is leaning into high-end foldables with its most powerful yet. — Source: Evan Blass
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Coinbase launches International Exchange, planning to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda, as the company tussles with US regulators — - Coinbase plans to let international users trade perpetual futures out of Bermuda through a new platform.
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| Medha Singh / Reuters: |
Online study company Chegg suspends its full-year outlook, saying ChatGPT's popularity is pressuring its subscriber growth; CHGG drops ~50%, now down 64%+ YTD — What's the cost of students using ChatGPT for homework? For U.S. education services provider Chegg Inc (CHGG.N), it could be nearly $1 billion in market valuation.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Eric Han, TikTok's head of trust and safety for the US, is leaving the company on May 12; Han played a key role in TikTok's proposal to avoid a US ban — TikTok's head of trust and safety for the US, Eric Han, is leaving the company on May 12th, according to two people familiar … | Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to sell a ChatGPT version on a dedicated cloud server in Q2 that separates the data from that of other clients and costs up to 10x more — Not everyone trusts OpenAI's ChatGPT. — While the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has proved popular …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of updates from “the world's most interesting people”, first in the UK, to keep users engaged as growth slows — Days after it started offering users the option to post more than once per day, BeReal is rolling out another new feature.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Samsung bans employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company devices over concerns staff will leak sensitive data — Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT after discovering staff uploaded sensitive code …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter says verified government or publicly owned services that tweet weather alerts, transport updates, and emergency notifications may use its API for free — Twitter's decision to shut off its free API caused more than a few problems for public institutions that depend on the functionality … | New York Times: |
Despite Google's October 2021 pledge to demonetize climate denial content, CCDH researchers find 100 YouTube videos with 18M+ views featuring ads for big brands — Google said in 2021 that it would stop running ads alongside videos and other content that denied the existence and causes of climate change.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Inflection AI, founded by Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Karén Simonyan, debuts Pi, a chatbot that's more sounding board than “repackaged Wikipedia answer” — Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that's already raised $225 million and claims to run …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta adds Reels to the top of the Facebook Watch tab and introduces controls that let users customize what types of content they want to see more or less often — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is introducing new features that make it easier for users to discover …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft seemingly stopped working on Surface Duo bug fixes and new features after the Android 12L update in October 2022, possibly due to the recent layoffs — Lack of resources and recent layoffs aren't helping. — Microsoft's dual-screen foldable smartphone has seemingly been abandoned.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Simpplr, an internal social network for companies, raised a $70M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures and says it has 700+ customers, including Moderna and AAA — Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma's first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop …
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| Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times: |
Letters: the EU and the US warn Malaysia over national security and foreign investment risks if the government gives Huawei a role in the country's 5G network — Kuala Lumpur's review of tender tests ability to juggle relations with the west and China — The EU and US have warned Malaysia …
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Pornhub disables its website in Utah after the state passed a porn site age verification law and now shows a video asking users to contact their representatives — People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law.
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