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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Tesla drops the price of its Full Self-Driving software subscription, which the company now calls FSD (Supervised), from $199 per month to $99 per month  —  Tesla has slashed the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD)… Read More »Tesla drops the price of its Full Self-Driving software subscription, which the company now calls FSD (Supervised), from $199 per month to $99 per month (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Palo Alto Networks alerts customers that hackers are exploiting a zero-day in its popular GlobalProtect VPN product and promises a patch by April 14  —  Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is alerting customers that a… Read More »Palo Alto Networks alerts customers that hackers are exploiting a zero-day in its popular GlobalProtect VPN product and promises a patch by April 14 (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Jamie Grierson / The Guardian: As Meta lowers the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13 in the UK and EU, after announcing the move in February, child safety groups criticize the move  —  Child safety group says… Read More »As Meta lowers the minimum age for WhatsApp users from 16 to 13 in the UK and EU, after announcing the move in February, child safety groups criticize the move (Jamie Grierson/The Guardian)

Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison for stealing $12.3M+ from Nirvana and another crypto exchange in 2022  —  – Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced Friday for hacking smart contracts … Read More »A US judge sentences ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison for stealing $12.3M+ from Nirvana and another crypto exchange in 2022 (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram to let users chat with Meta AI and discover content  —  Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more… Read More »Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram to let users chat with Meta AI and discover content (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Epic asks a court to require Google to allow alt app stores in Play Store and to limit Google’s ability to restrict alt app store preloading on Android phones  —  “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games… Read More »Epic asks a court to require Google to allow alt app stores in Play Store and to limit Google’s ability to restrict alt app store preloading on Android phones (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Bloomberg: Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia is investigating a breach in March; report: customer data of companies including Apple, Huawei, and SpaceX was stolen  —  – Unauthorized third party accessed Nexperia servers in March  — RTL Nieuws reports customer data from… Read More »Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia is investigating a breach in March; report: customer data of companies including Apple, Huawei, and SpaceX was stolen (Bloomberg)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Last week, LinkedIn began letting advertisers pay to amplify posts from some users through Thought Leader ads, as it enters the market of influencer marketing  —  Ryan Roslansky, CEO of Microsoft’s LinkedIn subsidiary, speaks at a… Read More »Last week, LinkedIn began letting advertisers pay to amplify posts from some users through Thought Leader ads, as it enters the market of influencer marketing (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI gives premium ChatGPT users access to an updated GPT-4 Turbo, promising “more direct, less verbose” responses that “use more conversational language”  —  ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade.  —  OpenAI announced… Read More »OpenAI gives premium ChatGPT users access to an updated GPT-4 Turbo, promising “more direct, less verbose” responses that “use more conversational language” (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Roku says hackers accessed ~576K accounts using credential stuffing, and made purchases in ~400 cases, after a similar breach affecting ~15K accounts in March  —  The new security incident was discovered a month after… Read More »Roku says hackers accessed ~576K accounts using credential stuffing, and made purchases in ~400 cases, after a similar breach affecting ~15K accounts in March (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)