US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok's complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass' failed real estate venture (New York Times)
How an Obscure Chinese Real Estate Start-Up Paved the Way to TikTok (Published 2024)
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadono...
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US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok
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Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia is investigating a breach in March; report: customer data of companies including Apple, Huawei, and SpaceX was stolen (Bloomberg)
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Chinese-owned Dutch Chipmaker Nexperia Hit With Cyberattack
Nexperia Holding BV, a Dutch chipmaker owned by Shanghai-listed Wingtech Technology Co., disconnected some of its systems after uncovering a cybera...
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Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia is investigating a breach in March; report: customer data of companies including Apple, Huawei, and SpaceX was stolen
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X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel in its trending news section Explore, after Elon Musk said Explore shows customized news created by Grok (Matt Binder/Mashable)
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X's AI chatbot Grok made up a fake trending headline about Iran attacking Israel
The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.
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X promoted a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel on its Explore page, after Elon Musk promised “real-time customized news for you created by Grok AI”
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Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as "Made with AI" starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board (Ryan Heath/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2024/04/05/meta-broader-ai-labeling
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Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board
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The DOJ compares Apple's 2023 $77B buyback program with the company's half as much spend on R&D and highlights it as a lack of incentive for Apple to innovate (Financial Times) https://t.co/k4xEzcgKQU
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The US DOJ compares Apple
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The EU publishes draft election security guidelines aimed at platforms with 45M+ regional MAUs that are regulated under the DSA, ahead of elections in June (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
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EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSA | TechCrunch
The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at larger platforms with a legal duty to mitigate systemic risks like...
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The EU publishes draft election security guidelines aimed at platforms with 45M+ regional MAUs that are regulated under the DSA, ahead of elections in June 2024
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SCOTUS rules that public officials may block people on social media in certain circumstances, tossing aside challenges against Michigan and California officials (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/politics/supreme-court-rules-that-public-officials-can-block-social-media-followers/
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SCOTUS rules that public officials may block people on social media in certain circumstances, tossing aside challenges against Michigan and California officials
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X takes down a graphic video shared by Elon Musk purporting to show cannibalism in Haiti, for violating the company's rules (Craig Trudell/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/x-removes-graphic-video-elon-musk-shared-over-rules-violation
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X removes a graphic video shared by Elon Musk purporting to show cannibalism in Haiti, for violating its rules; there
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Law enforcement arrests two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issues three arrest warrants, releases a decryption tool, and seizes 200+ crypto wallets (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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Police arrest LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown
Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool to recover encrypted files f...
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Authorities arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue arrest warrants and a decryption tool, seize 200+ crypto wallets; US indicts two Russians
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FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting "offensive weapons" into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a "fever pitch" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times) https://t.co/CoJntTQqn9
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FBI Director Christopher Wray says China inserts malware into networks to disrupt critical US infrastructure, and its “pre-positioning” has hit a “fever pitch”
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