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Sources: Elon Musk's Twitter is working on generative AI after buying ~10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; source: the work involves an LLM — - CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …
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Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker — Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky: malware developers are selling malicious Google Play loaders for $2K-$20K on hacker forums; the average price for a loader is $6,975 — Malware developers have created a thriving market promising to add malicious Android apps to Google Play for $2,000 to $20,000 …
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OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts — OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.
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| Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Recent autonomous vehicle snafus in San Francisco include five Waymo cars jamming an intersection and Cruise recalling software last week after an AV hit a bus — Five self-driving vehicles blocked traffic early Tuesday morning in the middle of a residential street in San Francisco's Balboa …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app's local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS — On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app's data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device.
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Artifact, the personalized news sharing app started by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's article app is taking a page from Reddit's playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 97 security fixes, patching one actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System and seven critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's April 2023 Patch Tuesday, and security updates fix one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 97 flaws.
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Customs data: Russia imported $570M worth of US chips from Hong Kong and mainland China from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2022, despite US sanctions — Shipments from Hong Kong and China jumped tenfold after invasion of Ukraine — TOKYO/HONG KONG/TAIPEI — More than a year since … | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network — Notes, the platform's new feature, functions similarly to its rival social app — LOS ANGELES — The newsletter platform Substack's …
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Video game illustrators in China say AI image generators are causing them to lose their jobs, as some employers encourage use of AI tools to boost productivity — “AI is developing at a speed way beyond our imagination. Two people could potentially do the work that used to be done by 10."| Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z, Tiger Global, IVP, and other VCs are touring Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to build ties with sovereign wealth funds during the funding crunch — Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
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Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks — Reddit moderators say they already see an increase in spam and that the future will “require a lot of human labor.” — LC| Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11 — Post-fix you may see MsMpEng.exe CPU usage drop by up to 75%. — A performance-sapping conflict between Mozilla Firefox …
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A US jury finds the former CEO, CFO, and president of digital pharma ad firm Outcome Health guilty of running a ~$1B scheme that defrauded clients and investors — Verdict caps fall of startup's executive team led by Rishi Shah, who could face years in prison| Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: |
Binance.US plans to delist the TRX token linked to Justin Sun's Tron from April 18 for failing to meet the expected standard of excellence; TRX drops ~4% — The Binance US exchange said the TRX token linked to Justin Sun's Tron crypto platform will be delisted from April 18, a move that spurred a decline in the digital asset.
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