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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
AT&T confirms that data dumped online appears to be from 2019 or earlier and contains personal details of 7.6M current and 65.4M former account holders  —  US telco giant takes action after 2019 data breach  —  Phone giant AT&T is reseting customer account passcodes after a huge cache …
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, oss-security, Red Hat, lcamtuf's thing, Cybersecurity …, Debian bug tracking system, The Register, LWN.net, Debian Mailing Lists, Arch Linux, openSUSE News, The Register, BleepingComputer, The Record, Cyber Kendra, Hackaday, Gist, Help Net Security, The Stack, The Hacker News, SC Media, Dark Reading, Decipher, 9to5Linux, The Stack, CRN, BetaNews, CRN, and OSnews
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LinkedIn: Niel Nielsen, Christian Walter, Matt Shelley, Jonah Burgess, Neatsun Ziv, Adon Metcalfe, Arwa Alomari, Owain Kenway, Gianluca Varisco, James Berthoty, Filippo Bonazzi, Dr. Johannes Ullrich, Magnus Glantz, and Matthew Holland
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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.
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 …
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).
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
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.
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?
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A photographer sues The Daily Mail in New York over “systematic” lifting of thousands of images from social media without permission from copyright holders

Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability

More News

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
Frank Landymore / Futurism:
Many of Amazon's Kindles are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books on the lock screen, with some appearing to be flagrant copies of existing works
Colin Lecher / The City:
NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law
Keumars Afifi-Sabet / LiveScience:
Researchers say they achieved fiber-optic data transfer speeds of 301 Tbps by using the E-band, a spectral band that has never been used in commercial systems
Axios:
Source: the US House set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft Copilot; Microsoft hopes its upcoming tools will address the House's concerns

Earlier Picks

Darius Rafieyan / Business Insider:
Filings from 2023 list Jacob Vespers as OpenAI Startup Fund's manager; OpenAI says “Vespers does not exist” and the docs are “fabricated”, without elaborating
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and recommends exporting podcast subscriptions to YouTube Music
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products
The Information:
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100B data center project with a US-based supercomputer dubbed “Stargate” to power OpenAI's products
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