Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany plans to spend billions to subsidize its chip industry and…
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Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix…
A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who has become a divisive figure during the debate over CSAM and privacy (Morgan Meaker/Wired)
Morgan Meaker / Wired: A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson,…
Leak of MSI UEFI signing keys stokes fears of “doomsday” supply chain attack
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) A ransomware intrusion on hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI,…
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading…
AI gains “values” with Anthropic’s new Constitutional AI chatbot approach
Enlarge / Anthropic’s Constitutional AI logo on a glowing orange background. (credit: Anthropic / Benj Edwards)…
A look at Locksmith, which let Apple II users make duplications of floppy disks, kickstarting one of the earliest copy protection battles of the PC era (Laine Nooney/VICE)
Laine Nooney / VICE: A look at Locksmith, which let Apple II users make duplications of…
Feds seize 13 more DDoS-for-hire platforms in ongoing international crackdown
Enlarge / A domain seizure notice from the Justice Department, showing the national seals of several…
Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup Boomy, or “tens of thousands” of songs, over suspicion of bots posing as human listeners (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Source: Spotify removed ~7% of tracks uploaded by AI music startup…
AI vs. Hollywood: Writers battle “plagiarism machines” in union talks
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “an office copy machine in front of a hollywood-style explosion.”…