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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 …
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| 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
More: The Verge. Threads: @gwestr, @robtyrie, and @dseetharaman
X: @dkobia, @alex, @davidclinchnews, @carnage4life, and @jeffjarvis
| 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: US Securities … and Wccftech
X: @juddlegum, @turnernovak, @joshtpm, @morningbrew, @bradmunchen, @austen, @alex, and @danprimack. Forums: 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: @alexmrainert and @carnage4life
X: @drhowardliu, @slyseven, @derekeb, and @batess
| 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| 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, r/Futurology, and r/technology
| 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| Brett Martin / New York Times: |
A profile of Matt Farley, who has released thousands of songs under various pseudonyms on 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.
X: @looseseal96, @mrjeremydylan, @austinkleon, @brettmartin, @joshuamarch, @themoko, @moternmedia, @katy_vine, and @apunkrockfuture. Forums: r/lebowski
| 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
| 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
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