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Clearview AI's CEO says the company has run nearly 1M searches for US police and now uses 30B images scraped without users' consent from sites like Facebook — Facial recognition firm Clearview has run nearly a million searches for US police, its founder has told the BBC
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers — A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Security Copilot, a GPT-4-powered assistant to help security professionals with incident investigations, event summaries, reporting, and more — After announcing an AI-powered Copilot assistant for Office apps, Microsoft is now turning its attention to cybersecurity.
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| Future of Life Institute: |
1,000+ people, including CEOs and researchers, sign open letter urging all AI labs to pause training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months — We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. — Signatures
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches — Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple rolls out Apple Pay Later to select US users, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4, available to all US users in the coming months — Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company's take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face — Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models …
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| Bloomberg: |
The FDIC tells Signature's crypto clients that they have until April 5 to close their accounts, as Flagstar's bid excluded ~$4B in Signature's crypto deposits — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. informed crypto clients with deposits at the failed Signature Bank that they have until April 5 … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans a major overhaul for “Windows 12” to modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and improved security, to better compete with ChromeOS — Windows “CorePC” is the spiritual successor to Windows “Core OS.” — What you need to know
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| Reuters: |
US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of ordering an Alameda payment of $40M+ in cryptocurrency to bribe Chinese government officials — U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, charging the founder of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
To compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with Replit, which used AI to make coding tools and will now rely on Google's LLMs for its Ghostwriter product — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later in 2023 and will become the first “touch-enabled board” to run Teams Rooms on Windows — “Teams Rooms on Windows” will ship on the new Surface Hub 2S. — What you need to know
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Substack invites its newsletter writers and others to invest, raising $5M+; source: the raise is an extension of Substack's $65M Series B in March 2021 — Substack, the newsletter platform, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday, allowing writers on the platform to invest in the company.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon opens Sidewalk to developers, offering SDKs and hardware development kits, and claims 90%+ of the US population can now access the long-range IoT network — It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on.
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| New York Times: |
On TikTok, #TikTokBan had 1.7B views on March 27, up from 983M views on March 18, as users post hundreds of videos arguing the app shouldn't be banned in the US — After lawmakers grilled TikTok's chief executive last week, the app's users argued that the platform should not be banned …
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| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation over its Play Store policies — Alphabet Inc.'s Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation …
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| Stratechery: |
Plugins turn ChatGPT into an aggregator, signaling a major shift in ambition that puts OpenAI well on its way to becoming the next major consumer tech platform — Yesterday's episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Pennsylvania-based NCB Management Services, which purchases debt, says sensitive financial info of 494,969 people was leaked during a cyberattack on the company — Nearly half a million people had their sensitive financial information leaked during a cyberattack on NCB Management Services - a company that purchases debt.
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| Financial Times: |
A profile of Swedish gaming company Embracer, whose growth via frantic dealmaking has raised questions of financial performance, accounting practices, and more — Lars Wingefors created Europe's biggest gaming company with an acquisitive strategy that has attracted short sellers
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@annasophiegross, @arashmassoudi, and @lordshipstrade
| Max Goldbart / Deadline: |
The UK releases its draft Media Bill that could see Netflix, Disney+, and other US streamers fined up to £250K for breaking harmful material rules under Ofcom — The UK government has published its long-awaited draft Media Bill to bring the U.S. streamers under its regulatory framework … | Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: |
How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government's adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country — Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country — SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador …
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@nicktagliaferro and @ricardovalp
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