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| Mike Larkin / Security Boulevard: |
Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections — Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident. But what a fortunate accident it was.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Office 365 globally starting April 1 amid antitrust scrutiny, after a similar unbundling in EU in August 2023 — Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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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| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research; CB Insights: VCs invested $42.5B in 2,500 AI startup equity rounds in 2023 — British AI pioneer says the billions of dollars being poured into start-ups is obscuring scientific progress in the field
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| Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
A look at the autonomous truck industry's challenges, including a lack of federal regulation, as Aurora and Kodiak plan a major expansion in Texas this year — Autonomous truck companies plan a major expansion this year to deliver your packages and food, speeding well ahead of federal safety regulations
Mastodon: @Rachel_Thorn@queer.party. X: @mateosfo and @ajlamesa
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to be on its Podcast “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 podcasts last week were participants — The Scoop — To get their show featured at the top of the Apple Podcasts feed, one of the best placements in the audio world … | Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Some teens say a Snapchat+ feature that lets users see their position in their friends' digital orbits, rendered as a solar system, is adding to their anxieties — Drama, hurt feelings and heartbreak can result when teens see where they are in friends' Snapchat+ solar systems
More: Wall Street Journal. Threads: @carnage4life. X: @drhowardliu, @slyseven, @derekeb, and @batess
| Wall Street Journal: |
Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023 — Studios seek the wisdom of die-hard gaming fans. ‘Every design now is vetted within an inch of its life.’ — Sonic's teeth were creepy.
More: Business Insider. X: @pdergarabedian and @bysarahkrouse. LinkedIn: Douglas Montgomery. Forums: r/boxoffice
| Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix tops $100B in valuation as its stock rose 2x+ over the past year amid high-bandwidth memory demand; analysts: SK Hynix has 90%+ share of the latest HBM — - Key Nvidia supplier's shares have doubled in the past year — South Korea's second-largest stock has outpaced No. 1 Samsung
More: Wall Street Journal, Gizmochina, and TweakTown
| Katie Hafner / New York Times: |
Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that helped accelerate TCP/IP adoption and internet commercialization, dies at age 82 — After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment.| 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: TechSpot, Neowin, XDA Developers, The Information, and PYMNTS.com
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/discordapp
| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
A profile of YC's Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked controversies as he tries to shift SF politics from idealistic progressivism to centrism — The tech investor Garry Tan has courted San Francisco's moderate Democrats and angered its progressives.Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times
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