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Instead of halting AI research, an unfeasible task, the industry must improve transparency and accountability by being open to external audits and to regulation — Tech leaders' Open Letter proposed a pause on ChatGPT. But researchers already know how to make artificial intelligence safer.
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data — Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners … | Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg's archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more — The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.
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US authorities arrest student loan service Frank founder Charlie Javice; the SEC charges her with falsifying Frank user numbers for JPMorgan's $175M acquisition — Charlie Javice allegedly falsified user numbers at student finance company — The founder of a student finance website acquired …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft debuts the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock for $300, offering a USB-C port instead of a proprietary Surface Connect port and supporting non-Surface devices — Priced at $299.99, the new Surface dock will connect over USB-C instead of the proprietary Surface Connect port.| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
Twitter's new API tiers are useless for researchers; the $100/month plan is much worse than the old free plan, and the $42K-$210K/month plans are too expensive — Access to Twitter's API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade. So how does $210,000 a month sound?| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Researcher: bugs in Nexx's Wi-Fi-enabled garage door openers let hackers open garages; Nexx hasn't responded to patch appeals for months, including from the DHS — A security researcher found a series of vulnerabilities with the Nexx brand of smart garage openers.
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| Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: |
Canada's privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data — The Canadian privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February 2023: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat vs. fall 2022, and only 4% used it daily — - Virtual reality hasn't caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday.
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: IRS-authorized e-file service provider eFile.com served JavaScript malware on its website, weeks after some users suspected the site was hijacked — eFile.com, an IRS-authorized e-file software service provider used by many for filing their tax returns, has been caught serving JavaScript malware.
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| Tom Bristow / Politico: |
The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022, for having ~1.4M UK users under the age of 13 and misusing their personal data — The ICO estimates that 1.4 million children in the UK were on TikTok in 2020. — LONDON — The U.K.'s data regulator …
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| Jeff Mason / Reuters: |
Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and that it remains to be seen whether AI is dangerous — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence is dangerous …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Everstream Analytics, a provider of predictive insights for supply chain management, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Morgan Stanley's 1GT Fund and StepStone — Just short of a year after raising $24 million from backers including DHL, Everstream Analytics, a company that provides predictive insights … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Germany says Twitter has repeatedly failed to remove user-reported illegal content and starts a Network Enforcement Act proceeding that may lead to fines — In an early FAFO test for Elon Musk, Germany could be set to fine Twitter for repeatedly failing to comply with a social media hate … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says its Weather app “may be slow or unavailable” due to an ongoing issue lasting multiple hours; some users have had data issues for over a week — Apple is currently experiencing issues with its weather data provider, leaving many users unable to see live weather information …
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Vancouver-based Web3 messaging protocol developer LayerZero Labs raised a $120M Series B at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in its $135M Series A+ in March 2022 — The valuation is triple the level of the firm's previous funding round in March 2022. — Join the most important conversation …
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