AT&T confirms data dumped online appears to be from 2019 or earlier and has personal data of 7.6M current and 65.4M former account holders, resets passcodes
US telco giant takes action after 2019 data breach — Phone giant AT&T is reseting customer account passcodes after a huge cache …
Microsoft engineer Andres Freund accidentally found the malicious code in versions of the XZ Utils compression tool, likely preventing thousands of infections
Yesterday's discovery of the xz backdoor was an accident. But what a fortunate accident it was.
How WhatsApp became the world's default communication app, including as a political propaganda tool, a business tool, and a private social network
What was once a texting platform now runs the lives, businesses and political machinery of billions. — In 2014, WIRED asked me to write …
IEEE stops accepting papers with the “Lenna image”, featuring a 1972 Playboy model, after complaints that it makes some women feel unwelcome in computer science
Use of “Lenna” image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
Survey of Americans aged 12+: 47% of have listened to a podcast in the last month, up 12% YoY, 76% listened to online audio in the past month, and more
The portion of Americans who listen to any kind of online audio, and the portion who listen to podcasts, have both reached new record highs …
Discord plans to start showing gaming ads from next week, called Sponsored Quests and offering rewards for in-game tasks; users can turn them off in settings
The chat platform, which has long avoided advertising, is latest tech company to lean into paid promotions
X says it is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe against her ex-employer Block, after being allegedly fired for her X posts about refugees and trans people
Happe accused Block of terminating her for expressing views Block didn't agree with. — X is funding a lawsuit filed by Chloe Happe … Threads: @carnage4life and @taylorlorenz . Mastodon: @brad@twit.s...
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
“Older entrepreneurs are more common and more productive than younger founders.” … Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Ph.D. : The economists also determined that 50-year-old founders were almost twice as likely to a...
A look at Steven Mnuchin's TikTok plans; sources say his proposal to buy TikTok without its export-blocked algorithm and rebuild it from scratch is far-fetched
His proposal to buy the app without its algorithm from its Chinese owner has drawn skeptical reactions, including from those he's pitched
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
As a web designer it's incredibly gratifying to have worked on a site that has served people for 20 years. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity. — https://www.theverge.com/... @darnell@one.darn...
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen
but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tec...
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
All — The — Way — Down — This one is sooo good. I recommend this to anyone playing with #AI to understand the biases and the complexities. Oh and the discussion of alt text is amazing. … Eri...
MrBeast's “retention editing”, which uses quick cuts and loud sounds, took over social media, but may fade away as the YouTuber shifts to slower, focused videos
The popularity of so-called retention editing made a generation of creators go viral, but when every video looks the same it's harder than ever to stand out
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...
A look at AI's impact on video game actors, as some fear their voices might be misused while others hope to collect extra payments on top of a base minimum
The increased use of AI to replicate the voice and movements of actors has benefits but some are concerned over how and when it might be used and who might be left short-changed Threads: @carnage4life...
Sources: Shein had $2B+ of profit and ~$45B of GMV in 2023, ahead of a planned NY or London IPO; documents: Shein had $700M of profit in 2022 and $1.1B in 2021
Fast-fashion group is seeking Chinese approval for IPO in New York or London — Online fast-fashion giant Shein has more than doubled … X: @davideborall X: David Eborall / @davideborall : 4.5% profit...
Sources: Dell, HP, and other US tech firms have asked their Taiwanese suppliers to boost production of AI-related hardware in Mexico to reduce reliance on China
Taiwan-based contract manufacturers step up investment south of the U.S. border for American clients Forums: Hacker News Forums: Hacker News : U.S. Tech Giants Turn to Mexico to Make AI Gear, Spurning...
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...
Some tech CEOs are turning to friendly podcasters like Lex Fridman as a way to “go direct” and avoid traditional media, which they view as unfairly critical
and avoid traditional media https://www.bloomberg.com/... @business : Tech CEOs are finding that Lex Fridman and other friendly podcasters help them get their messages out—and avoid traditional media ...
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: Caroline / @i_dont_caroline : Finally. Someone said it. This is ridiculous and so frustrating. I see more of this shit advertised than actual books. This needs to stop. htt...
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
Alex Heath / The Verge :
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
“Nobody's forcing you to use this” is such a disingenuous take. X: Jacob Eiting / @jeiting : @eric_seufert i think we're learning that the EC's interpretation of the DMA is that they get to decide you...
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
especially when it makes a mistake.” … Forums: r/aiwars : The AI Industry Is Steaming Toward A Legal Iceberg: Several legal experts say Section 230 will not protect firms from lawsuits over the output...
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