Researchers find malicious code in versions of the compression tool XZ Utils that were incorporated into Linux distributions from Red Hat, Debian, and others
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. — Researchers have found a malicious backdoor …
LinkedIn confirms testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed; a demo shows a Video tab in LinkedIn app's navigation bar
LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. With this new test, LinkedIn joins numerous …
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 100 partners, including HeyGen
As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it's doing so responsibly.
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a $100B data center project with a US-based supercomputer dubbed “Stargate” to power OpenAI's products
Executives at Microsoft and OpenAI have been drawing up plans for a data center project that would contain a supercomputer …
As Gmail turns 20 on April 1, a look at its impact on online communication and its future as other messaging apps have come to dominate how we communicate
Gmail revolutionized email with fast search and a whole gigabyte of storage. But where's it headed next?
Sources: Amazon's AGI team is aiming to outperform Anthropic's latest Claude models by the middle of 2024 using the company's forthcoming LLM, codenamed Olympus
This week, Amazon completed the second phase of a deal announced last September, when it committed to investing up to $4 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic.
EU's hostility towards Meta's “Pay or Okay” model is misguided as the model does not force users to use Meta's platforms and it has been deemed GDPR compliant
On Monday, the European Commission announced that it is launching investigations into Alphabet, Apple, and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
AT&T confirms that data dumped online appears to be from 2019 or earlier and contains personal data of 7.6M current and 65.4M former account holders
US telco giant takes action after 2019 data breach — Phone giant AT&T is reseting customer account passcodes after a huge cache …
Inside LAION-5B, an AI training dataset of 5B+ images that has been unavailable for download after researchers found 3,000+ instances of CSAM in December 2023
If you want to make a really big AI model — the kind that can generate images or do your homework, or build this website …
NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law
Steal your employees' tips! Discriminate against renters on basis of race! — Just two of the wonderful suggestions that Microsoft's LLM is telling people to do. (Clearly simply reflecting what hum...
Researchers say they achieved fiber-optic data transfer speeds of 301 Tbps by using the E-band, a spectral band that has never been used in commercial systems
1.2 million times faster than your home broadband connection https://www.livescience.com/ ... What would you do with such fast Internet connections? @_electroniccash : This is roughly 120x the require...
There is no evidence that using social media is driving an epidemic of mental illness and blaming it can distract from effectively responding to the real causes
and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.” — https://www.nature.com/... [image] Philip N Cohen / @philipncohen@mastodon.social : “the book's repeated suggestion that digi...
X plans to soon filter all NSFW content in Communities by default and says admins can set an “Adult Content” label to avoid their content getting auto-filtered
It was Musk's intent, make X into a platform that props up his businesses, RW ideology … Bluesky: @mistersheridandj.bsky.social : Elon is *just* smart enough not to do a Tumblr. [embedded post] Emil ...
Researcher: Instagram is testing Blend, which creates a feed of Reels for two friends to share based on shared interests and Reels they shared with each other
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Several legal experts say Section 230 will not protect firms from lawsuits over the outputs of generative AI, echoing SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch's 2023 statement
Legal scholars, lawmakers and at least one Supreme Court justice agree that companies will be liable for the things their AIs say and do … Mastodon: @statesdj@genomic.social and @mimsical@mastodon.soc...
Many of Amazon's Kindles are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books on the lock screen, with some appearing to be flagrant copies of existing works
https://futurism.com/... X: Laura Brady / @laurab7 : “I never minded the ads on them... until they became flooded with AI-generated books.” Kindles are displaying ads for blatantly AI-generated books....
Google informs users in the US that Google Podcasts is shutting down April 2 and recommends exporting podcast subscriptions to YouTube Music
How To Migrate Your Data Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, users urged to move to YouTube Music Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Google Podcasts to shut down, recommends ...
Source: the US House set a strict ban on congressional staffers' use of Microsoft Copilot; Microsoft hopes its upcoming tools will address the House's concerns
Filings from 2023 list Jacob Vespers as OpenAI Startup Fund's manager; OpenAI says “Vespers does not exist” and the docs are “fabricated”, without elaborating
Documents filed in April of 2023 in California … Forums: Hacker News : A Seemingly Fake Person Was Running OpenAI's $175M Startup Fund
Tech CEOs looking to “go direct” and avoid traditional media, which they view as unfairly critical, turn to friendly podcasters like Lex Fridman
Tech CEOs have a growing set of ways to sidestep traditional media. But first... Don't press Threads: @parkert . X: @business , @samidhas , @samidhas , @dannygroner , @martyswant , @garrytan , and @...
A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products
What About the Return? Paul Sawers / TechCrunch : Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’ Threads: Jacky / @jjackyliang : https://www.bigtechnol...
An interview with Morris Chang on starting TSMC at the age of 55, the company not designing or selling its own chips, returning to Taiwan from the US, and more
Morris Chang had decades of experience before he founded a business that's indispensable to the global economy. X: @rmnth , @angler_deepfish , and @aparanjape LinkedIn: Anthony Soohoo , Subra Shankhar...
A look at the MGM hack, carried out by Star Fraud group, part of the Com online community of teenagers from English-speaking countries that also spawned Lapsus$
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