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WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks — WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features. The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users against SIM jacking … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions — Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation? — It is fair to say that Substack …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures” — One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a ramsom.
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AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features — The world's largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models
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| Toby Sterling / Reuters: |
The European Data Protection Board sets up a ChatGPT task force, a potentially important first step toward a common EU policy on setting privacy rules for AI — The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on Thursday moved to create a task force on ChatGPT, the agency said in a statement.
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| Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local: |
SFPD arrested IT firm owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee, and say they knew each other and were driving together before the killing — Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Meta open sources Animated Drawings, an AI project that turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings — Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life. The company hopes that by offering Animated Drawings …
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| J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Spotify brings its “broadcast-to-podcast” tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts — Fox Corp. is one partner using the audio giant's “broadcast-to-podcast” technology to turn existing Fox radio shows into on-demand podcasts.
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Twitter adds support for tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with italic and bold text formatting, for Blue subscribers — We're making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features, and apply to enable... https://twitter.com/...| Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers' work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel — “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps — Microsoft is bringing Windows 11 to its HoloLens 2 headset. The update will be available free of charge, and Microsoft …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source software helps manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM agreed to buy — NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January …
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| Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: |
Nansen: after “Shapella”, ether worth ~$1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue; due to transaction limits, Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day — Cryptocurrency investors are facing delays to withdraw funds deposited on the Ethereum blockchain after its major software upgrade … Sponsor Posts
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