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Sources: Alphabet is considering an offer for HubSpot, an online marketing software company with a $35B market value, which would be its largest acquisition yet — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot (HUBS.N) …
More: Bloomberg, CRN, Investor's Business Daily, Finbold, MediaPost, CNBC, MSPoweruser, Sharecast, and Benzinga
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| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
X adds blue checks to some large accounts as part of its plan to give free Premium memberships to users with at least 2,500 “verified subscriber followers” — Just as Elon Musk said, X is doling out free Premium and Premium memberships to accounts with a high number of verified followers.
More: The Register, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Axios, Thurrott, BBC, The Guardian, Deadline, TechRadar, Forbes, Neowin, Android Headlines, Business Insider, Raw Story, and TechCrunch
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A profile of hacker Alejandro Caceres, aka P4x, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively — As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Developers say open-source software culture, where users demand constant updates from volunteer coders, is a security issue, as shown by the XZ Utils backdoor — A previously unknown contributor to the popular open-source Android app store F-Droid repeatedly pressured its developers to push …
Mastodon: @doctormo@floss.social and @mhoye@mastodon.social
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
More: PYMNTS.com, The Hill, and The Intercept
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Google sues two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent crypto trading and investment apps to steal users' money — Google is suing two alleged crypto scammers, accusing them of using its Play Store to offer fraudulent cryptocurrency trading apps …
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| The Guardian: |
Sources: Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza used Lavender, an AI system that identified 37,000 potential human targets based on their apparent links to Hamas — Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Cohere releases Command R+, an AI model for business customers the startup says performs competitively against OpenAI and others on “business-critical” tasks — Cohere says its new technology is cheaper than OpenAI's offerings. — Artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc …
More: Context by Cohere, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, and MSPoweruser
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google considers adding certain AI-powered search features to its premium subscription services, which already offer access to Gemini in Gmail and Docs — Proposals would mark first time any of the software group's core product falls behind a paywall
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| Tim Stelloh / NBC News: |
A Washington state judge bars using AI-enhanced video as evidence in a murder trial, a ruling experts say may be the first-of-its-kind in a US criminal court — Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software.
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Ripple plans to launch a stablecoin later in 2024 that is “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents” — The token will be “100% backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S. government Treasuries and other cash equivalents.” according to the company.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR, AR, and AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more — Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI. — 2014 doesn't seem that long ago to me.
More: Meta, Club386, Wareable, Meta, yTech, and The Verge
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says “Tesla is increasing comp ... of our AI engineering team” because OpenAI has been “aggressively recruiting Tesla engineers” with “massive” offers — - CEO says carmaker is going extra mile to retain specialists — Exodus may exacerbate concerns about conflicts, governance
More: PCMag, The Information, Inc.com, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, Observer, Proactive, Fortune, Business Insider, and Cryptopolitan
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @garymarcus, @jeskaday, @garymarcus, and @elonmusk
| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
An interview with Saber founder Matthew Karch on criticism of Embracer, joining Embracer's board in 2020, layoffs, and Embracer's $2B+ Savvy deal breaking down — Studio founder shares his view of the story behind Embracer's struggles, and why he's bullish on the group's recovery| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands its Custom Model training program with “assisted fine-tuning”, letting organizations set up training data pipelines, evaluation systems, and more — OpenAI is expanding a program, Custom Model, to help customers develop tailored AI models using its technology for specific use cases, domains and applications.
More: VentureBeat and OpenAI
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A publisher says he has been targeted by a backlink SEO scam in which a “law firm” with AI-generated photos of “lawyers” sent copyright infringement notices — Backlink scams are now leveraging fake, AI-generated ‘lawyers’ and DMCA trolling to try to pressure site owners to link to their ‘clients.’
Mastodon: @josephcox@infosec.exchange
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Amazon merchants complain of scam returns, where buyers ship junk back to sellers and claim they are returns, and say Amazon's policies favor customers — Merchants receive junk instead of returned purchases, a sore point as they say Amazon's policies favor customers| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is exploring home robotic devices, including a mobile robot that can follow users and a table-top device that uses robotics to move a display — - The company has teams working on automated home devices — The search is on for new growth sources after EV gets nixed
More: The Independent, TechCrunch, Thurrott, HotHardware, The Sun, Gizmodo, PCMag, iMore, The Decoder, New York Post, Taipei Times, ZDNet, Android Headlines, GameSpot, London Evening Standard, Investing.com, CNBC, Lowyat.NET, WinBuzzer, Business Today, Dexerto, The Mac Observer, FX Empire, Spyglass, Android Authority, TechRadar, Hindustan Times, KnowYourMobile, Lifewire, T3, Phandroid, Finbold, CCN.com, PhoneArena, and The Indian Express
Threads: @motorcityadam. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …. Bluesky: @fack.bsky.social. X: @newsynick, @ranimolla, @julianmi2, @staska, @classicii_mrmac, @raywongy, @vadimyuryev, @wholemarsblog, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/apple, r/Futurology, r/singularity, r/technology, r/technews, r/tech, r/wallstreetbets, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
A Google Cloud and Cloud Security Alliance survey of 2,486 IT and security professionals finds that 63% believe AI could help in threat detection and response — Generative artificial intelligence technology is fast finding a home in cybersecurity operations, as a comprehensive …
More: CSA, Cryptopolitan, VentureBeat, and TechRepublic
| Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
How some MBA programs in the US are reorienting courses around AI by adding AI-related classwork, encouraging students to present on AI innovations, and more — American University, other top M.B.A. programs reorient courses around artificial intelligence; ‘It has eaten our world’
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @grady_booch, @barbariancap, and @jmrivera02
LinkedIn: Lee Ann Sullivan Moore and David Marchick
Forums: r/singularity and Slashdot
| Alex Koller / CNBC: |
Uber Eats rolls out delivery services with Waymo's self-driving cars in the Phoenix area, Uber's seventh site with autonomous deliveries and first with Waymo — Two Waymo autonomous vehicles drive themselves down Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., March 18, 2024.
More: Waymo, ZDNet, Engadget, uber.com, Self Drive News, NBC Bay Area, The Verge, Carscoops, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, The Register, Chain Store Age, and Electrek
Forums: r/tech, r/singularity, r/UberEatsDrivers, r/technology, and r/Futurology
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
US rock band Kiss sells rights to its music, name, image, and likeness to Swedish entertainment company Pophouse to create a live show, a source says for ~$300M — Sale to Swedish entertainment group Pophouse set to 'fulfil the band's vision to become immortal'
More: Deadline, Bloomberg, Associated Press, NME, Billboard, Rolling Stone, The Independent, Variety, Music Business Worldwide, and Pophouse
| Andrea Grimes / Home With The Armadillo: |
Substack's new emphasis on followers, not subscriptions, and its opaque steps to migrate paid subscriptions off the platform make leaving harder for writers — And it'll be worse this time around! — The writing life, which has never exactly been a picnic for independent journalists and freelancers …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Pigment, a subscription-based business planning and forecasting service, raised $145M, sources say at a $1B+ valuation, for $393M in total funding — - French software startup said to be valued above $1 billion — Funding round comes as VC financing remains sluggish globally
More: FinSMEs, TechCrunch, Sifted, Tech Funding News, Tech.eu, and Silicon Canals
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