The doge.gov website tracking Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government pulls from a database editable by anyone, say two sources who found the vulnerability (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
The doge.gov website tracking Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government pulls from a database editable by anyone, say two sources who found the vulnerability  —  The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database …

Sources: the White House plans to renegotiate some Chips Act awards after reassessing requirements, and has signaled delays to some upcoming disbursements (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: the White House plans to renegotiate some Chips Act awards after reassessing requirements, and has signaled delays to some upcoming disbursements  —  The White House is seeking to renegotiate U.S. CHIPS and Science Act awards and has signaled delays to some upcoming semiconductor disbursements …

Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M  —  PS5 SHIPMENTS ARE NOW NECK-AND-NECK WITH PS4  —  PlayStation 5 enjoyed its best-ever holiday period in 2024 …

Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine "doxxing" to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)

Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press  —  Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.

Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of "practical training" (Hsiuwen Liu/Rest of World)

Hsiuwen Liu / Rest of World:
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”  —  Student-interns are paid for low-skill factory tasks and spend little time in the classroom.

A letter to US senator Ron Wyden shows data broker Datastream, which was selling US military location data, got the data from Lithuanian adtech company Eskimi (Wired)

Wired:
A letter to US senator Ron Wyden shows data broker Datastream, which was selling US military location data, got the data from Lithuanian adtech company Eskimi  —  In a letter to a US senator, a Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm …

Analysis of credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales fell 16% to 41% for five days from February 5 and Temu fell up to 32% after Trump targets China trade (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Analysis of credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales fell 16% to 41% for five days from February 5 and Temu fell up to 32% after Trump targets China trade  —  Online shopping giants Temu and Shein have seen a sustained drop in sales in the week after US President Donald Trump scrapped …

Researcher Johann Rehberger shows a hack to override Gemini's prompt injection defenses, letting long-term memories be permanently planted for future sessions (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researcher Johann Rehberger shows a hack to override Gemini's prompt injection defenses, letting long-term memories be permanently planted for future sessions  —  In the nascent field of AI hacking, indirect prompt injection has become a basic building block for inducing chatbots …

At the AI Action Summit in Paris, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc plans to mobilize €200B to invest in AI to catch the US and China (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
At the AI Action Summit in Paris, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc plans to mobilize €200B to invest in AI to catch the US and China  —  The announcement underscores efforts from the EU to position itself as a key player in the AI race

Sam Altman says "OpenAI is not for sale" and "OpenAI's mission is not for sale", especially to "a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market" (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios:
Sam Altman says “OpenAI is not for sale” and “OpenAI's mission is not for sale”, especially to “a competitor who is not able to beat us in the market”  —  - “OpenAI is not for sale. … - Altman said the board has not determined a valuation for OpenAI's operations yet …

Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)

Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth  —  The telecom company expects data centers to be its number one growth driver in the coming years

TSMC says losses from January's earthquake would be ~$161.5M, dragging its Q1 revenue guidance to $25B to $25.8B, up 35.9% YoY but at the lower end of its range (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC says losses from January's earthquake would be ~$161.5M, dragging its Q1 revenue guidance to $25B to $25.8B, up 35.9% YoY but at the lower end of its range  —  TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Monday that losses from the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in January would amount …

How DeepSeek's R1 accelerated the rollout of chatbots showing their "thinking" process; an expert says seeing a chatbot's inner monologue can trigger empathy (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
How DeepSeek's R1 accelerated the rollout of chatbots showing their “thinking” process; an expert says seeing a chatbot's inner monologue can trigger empathy  —  How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.”  —  Chinese start-up DeepSeek …

A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without algorithmically tracking the user (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without algorithmically tracking the user  —  On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through …

An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector unemployment rate rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January, with the number of unemployed rising from 98K to 152K (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector unemployment rate rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January, with the number of unemployed rising from 98K to 152K  —  Artificial intelligence continues to impact the technology labor market  —  The unemployment rate in the information technology sector rose …