Saturday, April 8, 2023

An interview with Victor Wong, Google's senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple's ATT, and more (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
An interview with Victor Wong, Google's senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple's ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here's an exclusive peek into how it will work.



Twitter replaces the "state-affiliated media" label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as "government funded" (Aidan McLaughlin/Mediaite)

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Twitter replaces the “state-affiliated media” label on NPR's account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “government funded”  —  Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR's account this week, replacing …



Twitter changes the label on NPR's account to "Government Funded" after criticism about adding a "US state-affiliated media" label (Bobby Allyn/@BobbyAllyn)

Bobby Allyn / @BobbyAllyn:
Twitter changes the label on NPR's account to “Government Funded” after criticism about adding a “US state-affiliated media” label  —  The body of the article goes here.



Elon Musk claims Twitter never blocked Substack links and it was "trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone" (Matt Novak/Forbes)

Matt Novak / Forbes:
Elon Musk claims Twitter never blocked Substack links and it was “trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone”  —  Elon Musk broke his silence about the Twitter CEO's conflict with the online publishing site Substack and one of its biggest writers Matt Taibbi on Saturday.



Bob Lee's death in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the tech community to become more involved in city politics (New York Times)

New York Times:
Bob Lee's death in San Francisco has stirred outrage among tech leaders and could motivate the tech community to become more involved in city politics  —  Bob Lee's death has stirred outrage among tech leaders and comes at a precarious time for the industry — and the city it calls home.



Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers' cash after the failure of Signature Bank and is using at least one middleman to store funds (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Binance.US has struggled to find a bank for its customers' cash after the failure of Signature Bank and is using at least one middleman to store funds  —  As a stopgap, the exchange is using at least one middleman to store user funds on its behalf  —  The U.S. affiliate …



A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Joel Khalili / Wired:
A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates  —  US agencies are sparring over who gets to oversee the crypto industry, and companies are stuck in the middle.



Friday, April 7, 2023

MSI confirms in a filing that it was breached, without giving many details, after a ransomware gang claims to have breached MSI and stolen its source code (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag:
MSI confirms in a filing that it was breached, without giving many details, after a ransomware gang claims to have breached MSI and stolen its source code  —  The ransomware group is reportedly demanding $4 million or it will leak the stolen data, which includes company source code.



Sources and internal documents: the success of ChatGPT has made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks despite their AI ethics guidelines (New York Times)

New York Times:
Sources and internal documents: the success of ChatGPT has made Microsoft and Google willing to take greater risks despite their AI ethics guidelines  —  Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do.  Now the priority is winning control of the industry's next big thing.



Amazon bans the sale of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, after tagging it as a card-skimming device (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Amazon bans the sale of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, after tagging it as a card-skimming device  —  Amazon has banned the sale of the Flipper Zero portable multi-tool for pen-testers as it no longer allows its sale on the platform after tagging it as a card-skimming device.



The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose "the most significant current illicit finance risk" (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk:
The US Treasury warns that DeFi services not compliant with AML and terrorist financing rules pose “the most significant current illicit finance risk”  —  The department's first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.



Alibaba invites businesses to trial 'ChatGPT rival' AI chatbot: Report

The free-to-use ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) application created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, was released to the public last November and can generate articles and essays on demand in response to user prompts. https://ift.tt/9QievaW

Microsoft announces AI-powered 365 Copilot integration in OneNote

Microsoft initially announced its AI-powered Copilot for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Power Platform, and Viva last month. https://ift.tt/usD4ZWh

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Meta’s new AI model can detect any object, here’s how

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has developed an AI model called "Segment Anything" that can identify objects in images and videos without prior training. This means the AI can detect items not included in the original data set. Users can select objects by clicking on them or using text prompts. For instance, typing "cat" will prompt the AI to highlight all the cats in a photo. https://ift.tt/gBswW4f

Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)

Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...