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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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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
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 … | Reuters: |
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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| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
US private equity firm Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as SAP looks to divest its 71% stake — Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year — US private equity group Silver Lake and one of Canada's largest pension funds …
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Analysis: Amazon had $38B in 2022 ad revenue, more than the entire global newspaper industry and likely more than the revenue Prime generated from subscriptions — I first started paying attention to Amazon's ad business a couple of years ago, when a line called ‘other’ in the back of the accounts started to grow really fast.Sponsor Posts
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