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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 from Debian, Red Hat, 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, ongoing, research!rsc, BleepingComputer, Firmware Security, Stratechery, and The Verge
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| 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 …
More: Cybersecurity …, Department of Homeland …, Associated Press, Axios, DataBreachToday.com, The Register, GeekWire, CyberScoop, and Reuters
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC halts some chipmaking and evacuates plants after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, Taiwan's biggest in 25 years, and plans to assess the impact; UMC did similar — - Chipmakers move some staff off of unspecified operation areas — The earthquake rocked Taiwan and triggered tsunami warnings| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Amazon plans to remove Just Walk Out from most of its grocery stores and add more grocery stores with Dash Carts, which let shoppers scan items while they shop — Amazon's grab-and-go checkout system, Just Walk Out, has been a centerpiece of its ambitions to transform bricks-and-mortar supermarkets.
More: Gizmodo, Engadget, Associated Press, TweakTown, Financial Times, Daring Fireball, PYMNTS.com, Seattle Business Journal, New York Daily News, The Verge, ZDNet, Payments Dive, PCMag, Chain Store Age, Telegraph, and Finextra
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Google details Device Bound Session Credentials, a feature that aims to stop browser cookie theft and uses the PCs' TPM chip, in beta in some Chrome 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.| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
POTUS' official Threads account starts using Meta's ActivityPub integration to post on the decentralized networking protocol — POTUS puts the ‘fed’ in ‘fediverse.’ — The official US president Threads account, currently helmed by President Joe Biden, has begun using Meta's ActivityPub integration …
More: TechCrunch. Threads: @quillmatiq, @timothyjchambers, @0xjessel, @lilkioko, and @evanprodromou
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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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers detail “many-shot jailbreaking”, which can evade LLMs' safety guardrails by including a large number of faux dialogues 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, SiliconANGLE, Maginative, and Marcus on AI
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| 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, suggesting the end of “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| 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 …
X: @thekenyeung, @davidshepardson, @brendancarrfcc, @galetstrong, and @senmarkey
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Billie Eilish, Katy Perry, and 200+ others sign a letter to AI developers and tech firms decrying “predatory” AI that steals voices, replaces artists, and more — - Jen Jacobson, executive director at The Artist Rights Alliance (ARA), the trade group representing the artists signing the letter … | Christopher Kuo / New York Times: |
George Carlin's estate settles with the makers of Dudesy, who agree to remove their YouTube video and podcast they originally claimed used an “AI” George Carlin — The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin's work.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Newzoo: PC and console game revenues grew 2.6% YoY to $93.5B in 2023, but average quarterly playtime hours fell 26% from Q1 2021 through 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.| Jenna Scatena / Wired: |
A profile of Faruk Fatih Özer, the convicted CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, as he starts a 11,196-year prison sentence in Turkey for laundering assets — Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence. Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey's history …
Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/TrueReddit
| 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: TrueMedia.org, TrueMedia.org, and GeekWire
X: @truemediadotorg, @truemediadotorg, @timfinin, and @toddbishop
| 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.| Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: |
Boosted by Taiwan's 2024 elections, Threads has revived its popularity in the country; Sensor Tower says Threads is Taiwan's most downloaded social app — For most people around the world, Meta's text-based social network Threads is a platform that they haven't thought of for months.
More: Platformer. Threads: @mathonan, @mergesort, @crumbler, @goldman, @barbarakb, and @vaivain. X: @zeyiyang
| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
A rising number of Chinese tech workers face legal action from former employers, including Pinduoduo and Tencent, looking to enforce strict noncompete clauses — From Tencent to Pinduoduo, companies use surveillance and lawsuits to retain staff as competition ramps up| Granth Vanaik / Reuters: |
PE firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice plans to buy a majority stake in IT services provider Presidio from BC Partners; sources say the deal may value Presidio at $4B+ — U.S. private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) said on Tuesday it had agreed to acquire a majority ownership position …
More: Financial Times, Presidio, CRN, and CRN
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