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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Some Twitter services were down, like loading images and TweetDeck; 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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@ncweaver@thecooltable.wtf, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @netblocks@mastodon.social, @jank0@sfba.social, @micahflee@infosec.exchange, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @profcarroll@federate.social, @ron_miller@noc.social, @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net, @davidgerard@circumstances.run, and @paul@tapbots.social
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@twittersupport, @elonmusk, @twittersupport, @thesmarmybum, @buzz, @laurakeeney, @tomwarren, @pt, @ultraviolet, @muellershewrote, @manan, @dimensionmedia, @tsuvik, @carnage4life, @9to5mac, @brianklaas, @lapresmidi, @gaberivera, @jyarow, @aroondeep, @nqtspinner, @russellholly, @marypcbuk, @teroterotero, @random_walker, @random_walker, @mikeisaac, @ronamadeo, @daniel_rubino, @pete_brown, @tomwarren, @stephenasmith, @halhod, @suka_hiroaki, @suka_hiroaki, @nkulw, @daveleeft, @jessicalessin, @ditzkoff, @daveleeft, @taylorlorenz, @khurtizz, @dannyjpalmer, @kwestin, @mcwm, @carnage4life, @daveleeft, @khurtizz, @pbump, and @tomwarren
| Wired: |
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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Wired, Lighthouse Reports, and Lighthouse Reports
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@mattburgess@infosec.exchange, @JorisMeys@mstdn.social, @jonkeegan@mastodon.social, and @couts@mastodon.social
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@daniel_howden, @paldhous, @dmehro, @dellcam, @dmehro, @jtemperton, @amoorelouise, @pt, @jtemperton, @lhreports, @wolfiechristl, @macloo, @tiagodf, @paldhous, and @dellcam
| 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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@Riedl@sigmoid.social and @glynmoody@mastodon.social
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces Dynamics 365 Copilot, built using OpenAI's tech, helping draft contextual chat and email answers and more, rolling out 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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The Official Microsoft Blog, Tech Monitor, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, Silicon Republic, Thurrott, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog, The Verge, BigTechWire, WinBuzzer, Neowin, Customer Experience, LinkedIn, and OnMSFT.com
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@danielnewmanuv, @cdanuloff, @dinabass, @satyanadella, and @maryjofoley
| Associated Press: |
German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies …
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BleepingComputer, Europol, TechCrunch, The Verge, Security Affairs, Metacurity, SecurityWeek, Agence France-Presse, The Hacker News, and Help Net Security
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@brianhonan, @vxunderground, and @europol
| 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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European Commission, TechCrunch, The Verge, Euractiv, gHacks Technology News, Tech Xplore, Silicon Republic, Reuters, and RTÉ
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@mattnavarra, @bertuzluca, and @eu_consumer
| 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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@micahflee@infosec.exchange, @agreenberg@infosec.exchange, and @couts@mastodon.social
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@a_greenberg, @anderssandberg, @eff, and @natashamitchell
| 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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@mattgoldstein26
| 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 … | 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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TechCrunch, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Barron's Online, and Tech Startups
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work” — Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history
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Insider, Fortune, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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@1br0wn@eupolicy.social. Tweets:
@antoniocasilli, @epro, @jmglachant, @timothynoah1, @parijatjha47, and @daveleeft
| Benedict Evans: |
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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use, no longer requiring an Office license or 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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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, BGR, iClarified, and Windows Report
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