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The EU's DSA goes into effect, forcing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok to let users opt out of profiling-based content recommendations — Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks’ to being attention hacked by AI.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Cisco Talos: North Korea's Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the US — A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities …
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi customer data is compromised after a SIM swap against an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies — A ‘cybersecurity incident’ affected Kroll, which gathers customer claim data on behalf of bankrupt companies. — Register Now
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Forums: r/ThePPShow and r/CryptoCurrency
| New York Times: |
Sources: a company spending $800M+ to buy thousands of acres to build a new Bay Area city is backed by Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, and others — A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land.
More: Insider, Wall Street Journal, and The Information
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube offers insights meant to guide Shorts creators, including how the Shorts algorithm differs from long-form YouTube's algorithm and what counts as a view — YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators' questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Emsisoft: the MOVEit Transfer breach has so far impacted 1,000+ known victim organizations, of which 83.9% are based in the US, and 60M+ individuals — At least 60 million individuals affected, though the true number is far higher — A mass-hack involving the MOVEit Transfer software …
More: BleepingComputer, DataBreachToday.com, and SecurityWeek. Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
| Joe Wituschek / BGR: |
X launches its job posting feature X Hiring in beta for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates” — Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job? Nah, those days are over. X is the new place to find your next employer.
More: Twitter Help Center, Social Media Today, and The Verge
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, is valued at ~$2B, and has 700 clients, including Microsoft and Inflection AI — It's not just Nvidia. There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it's now competing with some of the world's most valuable companies.
X: @wsjbusiness, @coreweave, and @minzengwsj
| Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: |
Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other technologies; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents — Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US — Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent cross-licensing deal … | Washington Post: |
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election
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Forums: r/LibertarianUncensored, r/ActiveMeasures, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/centrist
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B — Grocery delivery giant Instacart on Friday filed for its initial public offering, with expectations that its shares will begin trading on the Nasdaq next month.
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Threads: @trevorcroker. Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social. X: @pitdesi, @alexisohanian, @jason, @iankar_, @modestproposal1, @coryweinberg, @eringriffith, @eringriffith, @mattbelloni, @iankar_, @garrytan, @eringriffith, @edwinwee, @eric_seufert, @pitdesi, @natebecker, @ericjackson, @alex, @coryweinberg, @cityofthetown, @rachelmetz, @ericnewcomer, @brackin, @bgurley, and @sarthakgh. LinkedIn: Mitch Louch
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Despite cheating and misinformation fears, some US schools that once raced to block AI chatbot access are now encouraging teachers and students to use them — Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them. — For decades, Walla Walla High School …
More: New York Post and The Register
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