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March 25, 2023, 4:05 AM

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Intel:
Gordon Moore, Intel's co-founder and former CEO and author of Moore's Law, dies at the age of 94  —  Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94.  —  The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
A researcher finds Verification settings in Twitter's app showing that the company may be working on letting Blue subscribers hide their blue checkmark  —  Twitter may be working on a feature that lets you hide the blue checkmark you got by paying for its Blue subscription.
TechCrunch:
Sensor Tower: Twitter Blue had 385K+ subscribers on iOS and Android and made $11M on mobile in its first three months, including ~$8M from 246K US subscribers  —  Legacy Twitter checkmarks are disappearing on April 1st, Twitter says, and in the future, the only way users will be able …
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Gary Price / LJ Infodocket:
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
OpenAI blames a bug in a Redis client open-source library for the March 20 ChatGPT history issue and exposure of 1.2% of ChatGPT Plus subscribers' personal info  —  OpenAI says a Redis client open-source library bug was behind Monday's ChatGPT outage and data leak, where users saw other users' personal information and chat queries.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM which the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford's Alpaca model  —  Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space …
Georgia Gee / The Intercept:
An investigation finds US homeowners associations teaming up with police to install Flock Safety's license plate surveillance cameras, without telling residents  —  At a city council meeting in June 2021, Mayor Thomas Kilgore, of Lakeway, Texas, made an announcement that confused his community.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The UK CMA narrows its probe of Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard bid, saying new evidence “provisionally alleviates” concerns about UK game console supply  —  The UK's antitrust watchdog has narrowed its probe of Microsoft's $68.7 billion bid for video game giant, Activision Blizzard, it said today.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
An affidavit shows how the FBI arrested Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the alleged admin of BreachForums; the DOJ says it caused the forum to go offline  —  The Justice Department also said it conducted a “disruption operation” that caused BreachForums to go offline.

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