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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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| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Discord plans to start showing gaming ads from next week, called Sponsored Quests and offering rewards for in-game tasks; users can turn them off in settings — The chat platform, which has long avoided advertising, is latest tech company to lean into paid promotions
More: The Verge
| 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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| 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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| 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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| Knowing Machines: |
Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023 — If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website …
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| 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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| 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 pitched
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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
| 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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