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.
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 plans to unbundle Teams from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 globally amid antitrust scrutiny, after a similar unbundling in the EU in August 2023
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday …
Sources: OpenAI discussed training GPT-5 on public YouTube video transcripts; AI industry's need for high-quality text data may outstrip supply within two years
Firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic are working to find enough information to train next-generation artificial-intelligence models
Sources: Apple suggests podcasters join its subscription program to get on its “browse” carousel; 5 of the first 7 carousel podcasts last week were participants
The Scoop — To get their show featured at the top of the Apple Podcasts feed, one of the best placements in the audio world …
Filing: Donald Trump's Truth Social lost $58M+ on $4.1M in revenue during 2023; Trump Media & Technology Group is valued at $7B+ after going public on March 26
- All of the company's revenue comes from advertising on Truth Social, per the disclosures.
Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research; CB Insights: VCs invested $42.5B in 2,500 AI startup equity rounds in 2023
British AI pioneer says the billions of dollars being poured into start-ups is obscuring scientific progress in the field
How WhatsApp became the world's default communication app, including as a political propaganda tool, a business tool, and a private social network
And, I don't even think we have scratched the surface with WhatsApp! … Ankur Gupta : I do find it fascinating how so many messengers and P2P communication tools have come in our lives since the arriva...
Interviews and Telegram messages detail how Russian middlemen used Tether to avoid US sanctions and procure parts for drones and other high-tech equipment
How Russian middlemen used tether to avoid U.S. sanctions and procure parts for drones and other high-tech equipment
A look at the autonomous truck industry's challenges, including a lack of federal regulation, as Aurora and Kodiak plan a major expansion in Texas this year
Autonomous truck companies plan a major expansion this year to deliver your packages and food, speeding well ahead of federal safety regulations Mastodon: @Rachel_Thorn@queer.party . X: @mateosfo and ...
Some teens say a Snapchat+ feature that lets users see their position in their friends' digital orbits, rendered as a solar system, is adding to their anxieties
Drama, hurt feelings and heartbreak can result when teens see where they are in friends' Snapchat+ solar systems
A profile of YC's Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked controversies as he tries to shift SF politics from idealistic progressivism to centrism
discussing his increasing local political presence just as Demo Day is about to kick off in the city. 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/... Mastodon: Glenn Fleishman / @glennf@twit.social : My life likely tu...
Filing: to settle a 2020 class action suit about Chrome's Incognito mode, Google has agreed to destroy billions of data points it allegedly improperly collected
Individual lawsuits targeting firm now seek compensation for alleged improper data tracking — Google plans to destroy a trove …
Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023
Two separate articles came out this week, one in The Wall Street Journal and the other in TheWrap both of which talk … Forums: r/boxoffice : Hollywood Finds Fresh Characters And New Worlds In Video Ga...
Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that helped accelerate TCP/IP adoption and internet commercialization, dies at age 82
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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
Wall Street Journal :
A profile of Matt Farley, who has released thousands of songs under various pseudonyms on streaming services with the goal of matching nearly any search query
Matt Farley has released thousands of songs with the goal of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for. Threads: @simondowens . X: @looseseal96 , @austinkleon , @br...
Filing: Sam Altman no longer controls the OpenAI Startup Fund, which has a $325M+ gross asset value; Ian Hathaway, who has helped manage the fund, is in charge
- By last May it reported $175 million in total commitments, including from OpenAI partner Microsoft, but now lists the fund's gross asset value at over $325 million.
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
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
SK Hynix tops $100B in valuation as its stock rose 2x+ over the past year amid high-bandwidth memory demand; analysts: SK Hynix has 90%+ share of the latest HBM
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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
David Smith / The Guardian : Threads: @carnage4life . LinkedIn: National Association … Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The impact of AI on video game voice actors will mirror the democratizi...
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.