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AT&T confirms data dumped online appears to be from 2019 or earlier and has personal data of 7.6M current and 65.4M former account holders, resets passcodes — US telco giant takes action after 2019 data breach — Phone giant AT&T is reseting customer account passcodes after a huge cache …
More: BleepingComputer, AT&T, 9to5Mac, Forbes, The Verge, PCMag, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, Engadget, AT&T, CNBC, and NBC News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find malicious code in versions of the compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into Linux distributions from Red Hat, Debian, and others — Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. — Researchers have found a malicious backdoor …
More: Evan Boehs, lcamtuf's thing, Red Hat, oss-security, Cybersecurity …, Debian bug tracking system, The Register, LWN.net, Debian Mailing Lists, Arch Linux, openSUSE News, The Register, BleepingComputer, The Record, Cyber Kendra, Hackaday, Help Net Security, Gist, The Stack, The Hacker News, SC Media, Dark Reading, Decipher, 9to5Linux, in which jules writes, The Stack, CRN, BetaNews, CRN, and OSnews
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
X says it is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her ex-employer Block, after being allegedly sacked for her X posts about refugees and trans people — Happe accused Block of terminating her for expressing views Block didn't agree with. — X is funding a lawsuit filed … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Amazon's AGI team is aiming to outperform Anthropic's latest Claude models by the middle of 2024 using the company's forthcoming LLM, codenamed Olympus — This week, Amazon completed the second phase of a deal announced last September, when it committed to investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic.
More: The Decoder and GovTech
Threads: @paul_rietschka, @vthallam, @marcslove, @jake_liebert, and @alexheath
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Several legal experts say Section 230 will not protect firms from lawsuits over the outputs of generative AI, echoing SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch's 2023 statement — Legal scholars, lawmakers and at least one Supreme Court justice agree that companies will be liable for the things their AIs say and do …
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LinkedIn: PJ Pereira, Esther Dyson, Dr. Jeffrey Funk, Massimo Donna, and Christopher Mims. Forums: r/aiwars
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
IEEE stops accepting papers with the “Lenna image”, featuring a 1972 Playboy model, after complaints that it makes some women feel unwelcome in computer science — Use of “Lenna” image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
EU's hostility towards Meta's “Pay or Okay” model is misguided as the model does not force users to use Meta's platforms and it has been deemed GDPR compliant — On Monday, the European Commission announced that it is launching investigations into Alphabet, Apple, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Morris Chang on starting TSMC at the age of 55, the company not designing or selling its own chips, returning to Taiwan from the US, and more — Morris Chang had decades of experience before he founded a business that's indispensable to the global economy.
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Tech CEOs looking to “go direct” and avoid traditional media, which they view as unfairly critical, turn to friendly podcasters like Lex Fridman — Tech CEOs have a growing set of ways to sidestep traditional media. But first... Don't press
Threads: @parkert. X: @business, @samidhas, @samidhas, @dannygroner, @martyswant, @garrytan, and @nikitabier
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen — As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it's doing so responsibly.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
As Gmail turns 20 on April 1, a look at its impact on online communication and its future as other messaging apps have come to dominate how we communicate — Gmail revolutionized email with fast search and a whole gigabyte of storage. But where's it headed next?
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn confirms testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed; a demo shows a Video tab in LinkedIn app's navigation bar — LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. With this new test, LinkedIn joins numerous …
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