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The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations — Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/technology
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Cisco Talos: North Korea's Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the US — A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi customer data is compromised after a SIM swap against an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies — A ‘cybersecurity incident’ affected Kroll, which gathers customer claim data on behalf of bankrupt companies. — Register Now
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ThePPShow
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is valued at ~$2B, and has 700 clients, including Microsoft and Inflection AI — It's not just Nvidia. There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it's now competing with some of the world's most valuable companies.
X: @wsjbusiness, @coreweave, and @minzengwsj
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube's algorithm and what counts as a view — YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators' questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.| New York Times: |
Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others — A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
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| Joe Wituschek / BGR: |
X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” — Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them — Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them. — For decades, Walla Walla High School …
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Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social. X: @_akpiper, @nytimesbusiness, @drcarlhindy, @nytimes, @tcblume, and @southjoseph
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Emsisoft: the MOVEit Transfer breach has so far impacted 1,000+ known victim organizations, of which 83.9% are based in the US, and 60M+ individuals — At least 60 million individuals affected, though the true number is far higher — A mass-hack involving the MOVEit Transfer software …
More: BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, DataBreachToday.com, and SecurityWeek
| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other technologies; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents — Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US — Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent cross-licensing deal … | Oliver Roeder / Financial Times: |
A look at Smallville, a virtual village populated by AI chatbots, built by Stanford and Google researchers to create a society with “believable human behavior” — Giving digital agents ‘memory streams’ produced surprising results — John Lin is a small-town pharmacist who takes great pride in his work.| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Sources: at TikTok, Oracle staff reviewing the app's source code sit at desks beneath TikTok-controlled cameras, a requirement directly from China's government — Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok's partner — and a government proctor.
X: @zachweinberg, @forbes, @rickcarew, and @ebakerwhite
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