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During oral arguments, SCOTUS justices seemed reluctant to strike down Texas' and Florida's social media laws, but raised concerns about companies' 1A rights — - Justices wary of entirely striking down Texas, Florida laws — But court voices concern about impact on company speech rights
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Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth's technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days — Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber Attack” in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024.
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Researchers detail a spam campaign using 21K hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from brands like eBay, MSN, and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily — A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …
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Mistral AI releases Mistral Large, a cheaper GPT-4 rival that supports 32K-token context windows, and Le Chat, a ChatGPT-like chat assistant in public beta — Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic as its latest announcement shows.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Expedia plans to cut ~1,500 roles in 2024, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023, about half in tech — Expedia Group expects about 1,500 roles to be impacted, primarily in its Product & Technology division …
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The CTO for US Central Command says AI developed for Project Maven was used to narrow down targets for 85+ air strikes in the Middle East on February 2 — - Algorithms were developed under the Pentagon's Project Maven — AI isn't ready to recommend the order of attack, official says| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
The EU is asking developers about the impact of Apple's decision to disable PWAs in the EU, seen as a precursor to a formal investigation into the company — Competition regulators in Brussels send questions to developers over iPhone maker's decision — The EU has taken the first steps towards …
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The US adds Sandvine to its entity list, banning the networking equipment company from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship — - Commerce Department largely bans tech firm from US purchases — Egypt was one of numerous countries where content was blocked
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Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 2.6% YoY to $1.15B, vs. $1.13B est., Enterprise revenue up 4.9% YoY to $667.3M, and announces a $1.5B stock buyback; ZM jumps 10%+ — The company also announced a $1.5 billion share buyback. The stock jumped more than 10% in extended trading.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation — - Partnership amounts to €15 million investment, Microsoft says — EU analysis could lead to future formal investigation
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Shadowfax, which operates a B2B logistics network in 2,500 Indian cities, raised a $100M Series E, bringing its total funding to $220M — Shadowfax, one of the largest logistics service providers to hyper-local and on-demand delivery businesses in India, has raised $100 million … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also offers some absurd responses, highlighting the need for flourishing open source AI — Last Wednesday, when the questions about Gemini's political viewpoint were still limited to its image creation capabilities, I accused the company of being timid:
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia plans to start showing free-tier users of GeForce Now “up to two minutes” of video ads while waiting in queue to start a cloud gaming session — Nvidia's completely free, no-strings attached trial of its cloud gaming service GeForce Now is about to be very slightly less of a deal …
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| Alexis Ong / The Verge: |
A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined — The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought …
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