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| Russ Cox / research!rsc: |
A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros Debian, Red Hat, and others — Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library …
More: xzbot on GitHub, LWN.net, ongoing, research!rsc, BleepingComputer, Wired, Unsupervised Learning, Firmware Security, SecurityWeek, Stratechery, Schneier on Security, and The Verge
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| Wired: |
A look at XZ Utils attacker “Jia Tan”, a persona experts say was used by a nation state group and that left little trace after working on the project since 2021 — The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers …
More: Petri IT Knowledgebase. Mastodon: @couts@mastodon.social, @mattburgess@infosec.exchange, and @pid_eins@mastodon.social
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC halts some chipmaking and evacuates plants after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Taiwan's biggest in 25 years, and is assessing the impact; UMC has done so too — - Chipmakers move some staff off of unspecified operation areas — The earthquake rocked Taiwan and triggered tsunami warnings
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify plans to raise prices by $1 to $2 per month in the UK, Australia, Pakistan, and two other markets by the end of April, and the US later in 2024 — - The audio service will raise prices in a few major markets — Spotify will create new plan that doesn't include audiobooks
More: The Verge, The Information, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Engadget, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Business Post, CNBC, Proactive, and PhoneArena
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Newzoo: PC and console game revenue grew 2.6% YoY to $93.5B in 2023, but average quarterly playtime hours fell 26% from Q1 2021 to Q4 2023 — The PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell during the year, according to the second annual report on the market-by-market researcher Newzoo.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Opera now lets Opera One users download and run 150 LLMs from 50+ families locally, including Llama and Google's Gemma, via the Ollama open source framework — Web browser company Opera announced today it will now allow users to download and use Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on their computer.
More: Opera Newsroom, XDA Developers, The Register, Opera News, Thurrott, PCMag, Cryptopolitan, and TNW
| Washington Post: |
The US Cyber Safety Review Board faults Microsoft for a “cascade of avoidable errors” that led to the 2023 Chinese hack of top US government officials' emails — The independent Cyber Safety Review Board's forthcoming report knocks the tech giant for shoddy cybersecurity practices …
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website — Stable Audio 2., an audio generation model for Stability AI, now lets users upload their own audio samples which they can then transform using prompts …
More: Stability AI, VentureBeat, Billboard, Music Ally, Maginative, and MSPoweruser
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Sources: crypto VC firm Paradigm is in talks to raise $750M to $850M for a new fund, which would be the largest since the crash; a16z raised $4.5B in May 2022 — - New fund would be industry's largest since crypto downturn — Paradigm was a major investor in bankrupt exchange FTX
More: Cryptonews, Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, and The Block
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Google details Device Bound Session Credentials, a Chrome feature that uses a PC's TPM chip to try to stop cookie theft, available in some Chrome beta versions — ‘Device Bound Session Credentials’ will tap the TPM chip in today's PCs. Google is testing it with some users running the beta version of Chrome.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers detail “many-shot jailbreaking”, which can evade LLMs' safety guardrails by priming them with dozens of harmful queries in a single prompt — How do you get an AI to answer a question it's not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques …
More: Anthropic, ZDNet, The Guardian, Axios, Ben's Bites, SiliconANGLE, and Maginative
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| Callum Booth / The Verge: |
A first look at two third-party iOS app stores in the EU: the B2B-focused Mobivention and the upcoming AltStore, which takes ~12 screen interactions to install — DMA is about to unleash a brave new world of game emulators, clipboard managers, and uncertainty.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The FCC plans to vote on April 25 to restore net neutrality rules and assume regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under President Trump — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight …
More: Deadline, TechCrunch, The Hill, The Verge, AppleInsider, Fortune, Telecompetitor, and MediaNama
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
POTUS' official Threads account starts using Meta's ActivityPub beta integration, turning on fediverse posting for the decentralized networking protocol — POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’ — The official US president Threads account, currently helmed by President Joe Biden …
More: ZDNet, TechCrunch, and NewsBytes
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Forums: r/technology and r/Mastodon
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel says its Foundry division had $18.9B in 2023 revenue, down 31% YoY, a $7B operating loss, up 35% YoY, and expects 2024 to be the peak of its losses — - Losses have deepened at chipmaker's new foundry division — In a change, company breaks out numbers for manufacturing
More: Reuters, SemiAnalysis, ExtremeTech, The Verge, Silicon Republic, guru3d.com, New Electronics, SiliconANGLE, The Information, CNBC, and Constellation Research
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, r/AyyMD, and r/technology
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: VCs raised $30.4B globally in Q1 2024, a marked slowdown from 2023, which itself was the worst year since 2016, noting the end of the “megafunds” era — Data shows a ‘sustained slowdown’ has persisted in the first quarter of 2024 as a lack of exit options weighs on fundraising efforts| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Quantinuum detail a breakthrough in quantum error correction, helping run 14,000+ experiments with no errors, an issue that has vexed the industry — Microsoft and Quantinuum today announced a major breakthrough in quantum error correction. Using Quantinuum's ion-trap hardware … | New York Times: |
An interview with Oren Etzioni, the former CEO of Allen Institute for AI, on his nonprofit TrueMedia.org, which offers free tools for identifying deepfakes — Oren Etzioni worries A.I.-generated fakes could overwhelm upcoming elections.Kyle Johnson for The New York Times
More: The Information, TrueMedia.org, Cryptopolitan, TrueMedia.org, and GeekWire
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