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Sources: Twitter is working on generative AI after buying around 10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; a source says the work involves an LLM — - CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker — Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky: malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2K-$20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975 — Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
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| Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Recent autonomous vehicle snafus in San Francisco include five Waymo cars jamming an intersection and Cruise recalling software last week after an AV hit a bus — Five self-driving vehicles blocked traffic early Tuesday morning in the middle of a residential street in San Francisco's Balboa …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System and seven critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts — OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app's local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS — On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app's data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device.
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Artifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's article app is taking a page from Reddit's playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation.| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch — Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Emails: UMG asked Spotify, Apple, and other services to block developers training AI services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs — Universal Music Group says new technology relies on unauthorised use of copyrighted material — Universal Music Group … | Nikkei Asia: |
Customs data: Russia imported $570M worth of US chips from Hong Kong and mainland China from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022, despite US sanctions — Shipments from Hong Kong and China jumped tenfold after invasion of Ukraine — TOKYO/HONG KONG/TAIPEI — More than a year since … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Raspberry Pi raised an undisclosed amount from Sony Semiconductor Solutions at a $500M valuation, the same valuation as its $45M raise in 2021, to work on AI — - Raspberry Pi has received fresh investment from Sony's semiconductor unit, in a deal that will let users and developers make visual sensory applications using its AI chips.
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
A profile of Andy Hunter and his ecommerce platform Bookshop.org, which helps indie booksellers set up a digital storefront instead of selling through Amazon — Andy Hunter's ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit. Now he's on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out.
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Video game illustrators in China say AI image generators are causing them to lose their jobs, as some employers encourage use of AI tools to boost productivity — “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network — Notes, the platform's new feature, functions similarly to its rival social app — LOS ANGELES — The newsletter platform Substack's …
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| Michael D McDonald / Bloomberg: |
Despite bitcoin rallying to over $30K, El Salvador's total holdings of 2,546 bitcoin, acquired for around $108M, are worth just $77M — Bitcoin may be at a nine-month high, but El Salvador's total holdings are still worth 29% less than what the government paid for the world's largest digital currency.
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