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Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem — A pending bill in the California state legislature, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), would create a “link tax” …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI gives premium ChatGPT users access to an updated GPT-4 Turbo, promising “more direct, less verbose” responses that “use more conversational language” — ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade. — OpenAI announced today …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Palo Alto Networks alerts customers that hackers are exploiting a zero-day in its popular GlobalProtect VPN product and promises a patch by April 14 — Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is alerting customers that a zero-day vulnerability in its firewall tool is being exploited by hackers.
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| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison for stealing $12.3M+ from Nirvana and another crypto exchange in 2022 — - Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced Friday for hacking smart contracts — Ahmed admitted to stealing $12 million from two platforms| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Roku says hackers accessed ~576K accounts using credential stuffing, and made purchases in ~400 cases, after a similar breach affecting ~15K accounts in March — The new security incident was discovered a month after the company learned that 15,000 accounts were impacted in a similar breach.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts testing ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 in the Insider builds in the US, and says the app promotions can be disabled in Settings — Microsoft says it's starting to test ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11. The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu …
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| Reuters: |
A UK judge throws out Apple's motion to dismiss a ~$979M lawsuit representing 1,500+ UK-based developers alleging that the App Store's 30% commission is unfair — Apple (AAPL.O) on Friday lost a bid to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at just under $1 billion, brought in London on behalf …
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| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Epic asks a US court to require Google to allow alt app stores in Play Store and limit Google's ability to restrict alt app store preloading on Android phones — “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games has urged a federal judge in California to force Google (GOOGL.O) to open up its Play Store …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Last week, LinkedIn began letting advertisers pay to amplify posts from some users through Thought Leader ads, as it enters the market of influencer marketing — Influencer marketing has become big business on TikTok and Instagram, where popular creators can make good money by helping brands promote their stuff.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram to let users chat with Meta AI and discover content — Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more users. Apart from testing Meta AI chatbot with users in countries like India on WhatsApp …
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: earlier in 2024, China told its largest telecom carriers to phase out foreign chips from their networking equipment by 2027, in a blow to Intel and AMD — Beijing's move is the latest installment in a U.S.-China technology war that is splintering the global chip industry| Reuters: |
SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with major record labels, including WMG and Sony Music Entertainment, that includes protections over the use of AI — Hollywood performers and media professionals have reached a tentative deal with major record labels such as Warner Music Group (WMG.O) … | Bloomberg: |
Adobe used images created by tools like Midjourney and uploaded to its stock marketplace by users, to train Firefly; Adobe says ~5% of images were AI-generated — Company promotes its tool as safe from content scraped from the internet. — When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software …
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Sources: Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire cloud data management company Informatica, whose market cap crossed $11B after its shares jumped 43% in 2024 — Deal for data-management software firm would be among Salesforce's largest if completed — Salesforce is in advanced talks … | Jack Brewster / Wall Street Journal: |
A case study of the creation of an AI-powered local “news” website, directed to produce partisan stories on a US Senate race; a Fiverr developer made it for $80 — I paid a website developer to create a fully automated, AI-generated ‘pink-slime’ news site, programmed to create false political stories.| New York Times: |
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