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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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/ATT
| 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, Red Hat, lcamtuf's thing, Rob Mensching, Cybersecurity …, Debian bug tracking system, Security Affairs, The New Stack, BleepingComputer, SecLists.Org Security …, 404 Media, Debian Mailing Lists, The Register, LWN.net, openSUSE News, Arch Linux, The Register, The Record, Cyber Kendra, Hackaday, The Stack, Help Net Security, Gist, The Hacker News, SC Media, Dark Reading, in which jules writes, Decipher, 9to5Linux, The Stack, CRN, BetaNews, and CRN
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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 fired 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 by Chloe Happe … | 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.
More: Women Love Tech. Mastodon: @shivoa@mastodon.gamedev.place. X: @timdarcet, @mikepfrank, @rachelmetz, @cherthedev, @mikepfrank, @xsphi, @jsroest, @hlibivanov, @thibaut_barrere, @o_guest, @jjvincent, @mikepfrank, @the_moisrex, @jimpethokoukis, @fahad_s_ali, @basked_samosa, @ezioaks, @sushantdave1729, @yacinemtb, @zanyfen, @zoidctf, @zhil_arf, and @liasae
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| 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 …
Mastodon: @statesdj@genomic.social and @mimsical@mastodon.social. X: @nathandgregory
LinkedIn: Dr. Jeffrey Funk, Massimo Donna, PJ Pereira, Esther Dyson, and Christopher Mims. Forums: r/aiwars
| 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.
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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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| 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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LinkedIn: Rajesh Kandaswamy, Simon Smith, Clayton Sims, Denys Linkov, and Paul Roetzer
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and r/OpenAI
| 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
| Candice L. Odgers / Nature: |
There is no evidence that using social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness and blaming it can distract from effectively responding to the real causes — The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt Allen Lane (2024)
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X: @louisanslow, @basedbeffjezos, @jeffjarvis, and @ruskin147
| 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.
X: @rmnth, @angler_deepfish, and @aparanjape
LinkedIn: Michael Clinton, Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Ph.D., Anthony Soohoo, Subra Shankhar, Christopher Versace, Mauricio Vargas, Ajay Nyamati, and Don Capener. Forums: Hacker News
| Washington Post: |
A look at Steven Mnuchin's TikTok plans; sources say his proposal to buy TikTok without its export-blocked algorithm and rebuild it from scratch is far-fetched — His proposal to buy the app without its algorithm from its Chinese owner has drawn skeptical reactions, including from those he's pitchedSponsor Posts
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