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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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| 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 …
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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.
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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 …
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| 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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| 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
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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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| 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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| 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?
More: Customers.ai. Threads: @joetaylorjr and @joetaylorjr
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