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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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The Official Microsoft Blog, BleepingComputer, Wired, CNBC, Directions on Microsoft Blog, Microsoft, The Hacker News, Forrester, Microsoft Security Blog, CSO, SiliconANGLE, SecurityWeek, CircleID, BetaNews, Fast Company, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Engadget, BGR, The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, BigTechWire, Cybersecurity Dive, VentureBeat, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, iTnews, Decrypt, and TechCrunch
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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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Ben Wild, Efren Mercado, and Yasser A.
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@eddiegreatlakes, @richontech, @amirhaleem, @gigastacey, @liron, and @fredericl
| 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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| 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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On Substack, Platformer, The Information, Newcomer, Exponential View, and TechCrunch
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Bailey Richardson. Tweets:
@cjgbest, @substackinc, @sarafischer, @adamry_n, @substackinc, @ejeancarroll, @binarybits, @rafat, @hamishmckenzie, @pitdesi, @caseynewton, @amasad, @erikphoel, @iiiitsandrea, @jessicalessin, and @emilyrnunn
| 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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| 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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Office of the Maine AG and PR Newswire
| Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba plans its biggest restructuring ever, reorganizing its businesses into six independent entities and moving all operational decisions to each unit's CEO — Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
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@jchengwsj, @paulpage, @jonrussell, @jchengwsj, @desmondshum, @scmpnews, @byron_wan, and @onlyyoontv
| Lena Masri / Reuters: |
A review of 2,000+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and video surveillance systems to find and arrest hundreds of protesters or even prevent protests — A Reuters review of more than 2,000 court cases shows how Russia uses facial recognition to identify and sweep up the Kremlin's opponents.| 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
| 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 sellersSponsor Posts
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