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Microsoft plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 globally amid antitrust scrutiny, after a similar unbundling in the 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
More: oss-security, Ars Technica, DoublePulsar, PCMag, Open Source Security …, Risky Business, 404 Media, The New Stack, Gist, Sam James on GitHub, TechPowerUp, MSPoweruser, Checkmarx.com, New.blicio.us, HotHardware, OSnews, The Verge, Help Net Security, CERT-EU, lcamtuf's thing, Security Affairs, and Cybersecurity Explained
Threads: @alex.stamos, @jasonkoebler, and @postmastron
Mastodon: @jperrin@mastodon.social, @AndresFreundTec …, @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange, @djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @esther@strangeobject.space, @kde@floss.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @filippo@abyssdomain.expert, @carol@crabby.fyi, @AndresFreundTec …, @AndresFreundTec …, @AndresFreundTec …, and @AndresFreundTec …. Bluesky: @filippo.abyssdomain.expert
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/ProgrammerHumor
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filing: Donald Trump's Truth Social lost $58M+ on $4.1M in revenue during 2023; Trump Media & Technology Group is valued at $7B+ after going public on March 26 — - All of the company's revenue comes from advertising on Truth Social, per the disclosures.
More: New York Post, The Hill, Bloomberg, NBC News, Reuters, US Securities …, and Wccftech
Threads: @moskov, @datadrivenmd, and @drewharwell. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Bluesky: @toobigtofail.bsky.social
X: @danprimack, @bgrueskin, @jeffjarvis, @juddlegum, @bradmunchen, @joshtpm, @turnernovak, @alex, @austen, @danprimack, and @morningbrew. Forums: r/technology
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Filing: Sam Altman no longer controls the OpenAI Startup Fund, which has a $325M+ gross asset value; Ian Hathaway, who has helped manage the fund, is in charge — - By last May it reported $175 million in total commitments, including from OpenAI partner Microsoft, but now lists the fund's gross asset value at over $325 million.
More: San Francisco Business Times and Reuters
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years — Firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic are working to find enough information to train next-generation artificial-intelligence models| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: to settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome's Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected — Individual lawsuits targeting firm now seek compensation for alleged improper data tracking — Google plans to destroy a trove … | Max Tani / Semafor: |
Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to get on its “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 carousel 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 …
More: The Verge, Stratechery, Forbes, and Podnews
Threads: @alexcartaz. X: @ckrewson, @brij, @florian4gamers, @mikeventure, and @wobburnerburner. Forums: r/apple
| Brett Martin / New York Times: |
A profile of Matt Farley, who has released thousands of songs under ~80 pseudonyms on music streaming services with the goal of matching nearly any search query — Matt Farley has released thousands of songs with the goal of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for.
Threads: @simondowens. X: @looseseal96, @austinkleon, @brettmartin, @moternmedia, @joshuamarch, @mrjeremydylan, @apunkrockfuture, @themoko, and @katy_vine. Forums: r/lebowski
| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
Demis Hassabis says AI funding is causing hype and grifting that clouds AI 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
More: Business Insider, Quartz, The Decoder, Benzinga, and PYMNTS.com
Forums: r/artificial, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews and Telegram messages detail how Russian middlemen used Tether to avoid US sanctions and procure parts for drones and other high-tech equipment — How Russian middlemen used tether to avoid U.S. sanctions and procure parts for drones and other high-tech equipment| 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: @alexmrainert and @carnage4life
X: @drhowardliu, @slyseven, @derekeb, and @batess
| Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
A look at the autonomous truck industry's challenges, including a lack of federal US regulation, as Aurora and Kodiak plan major expansions in Texas in 2024 — 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, r/SelfDrivingCars, r/Futurology, and r/technology
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