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Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail an ongoing repo confusion attack impacting 100K+ GitHub repos, which involves cloning existing repos and infecting them with malware loaders  —  GitHub keeps removing malware-laced repositories, but thousands remain.  —  GitHub is struggling… Read More »Researchers detail an ongoing repo confusion attack impacting 100K+ GitHub repos, which involves cloning existing repos and infecting them with malware loaders (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia release free code-generating AI models StarCoder2-3B/7B/15B, the first two of which can run on most modern consumer GPUs  —  Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and… Read More »ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia release free code-generating AI models StarCoder2-3B/7B/15B, the first two of which can run on most modern consumer GPUs (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US SEC sent a subpoena to OpenAI in December 2023, seeking internal records, following the board’s decision in November to fire Sam Altman as CEO  —  Regulator is examining internal communications of… Read More »Sources: the US SEC sent a subpoena to OpenAI in December 2023, seeking internal records, following the board’s decision in November to fire Sam Altman as CEO (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)

Bloomberg: Alibaba is cutting prices for over 100 core cloud products in China by up to 55%, and 20% on average, including data storage and elastic computing products  —  – Alibaba is trying to stay ahead of competitors like Tencent … Read More »Alibaba is cutting prices for over 100 core cloud products in China by up to 55%, and 20% on average, including data storage and elastic computing products (Bloomberg)

Reuters: FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposes subjecting carmakers to the Safe Connections Act to protect domestic abuse survivors from misuse of internet car systems  —  The chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a potential new rule that… Read More »FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposes subjecting carmakers to the Safe Connections Act to protect domestic abuse survivors from misuse of internet car systems (Reuters)

Reuters: Coinbase says all services on its website have been restored after an issue on February 28 caused some users to see a zero balance in their accounts  —  Coinbase Global (COIN.O) said on Wednesday that all services on its… Read More »Coinbase says all services on its website have been restored after an issue on February 28 caused some users to see a zero balance in their accounts (Reuters)

Hannah Miao / Wall Street Journal: Webull plans to go public via a SPAC merger with SK Growth Opportunities around September 2024 and expects to raise ~$100M, valuing the online brokerage at $7B+  —  The brokerage, which surged in popularity… Read More »Webull plans to go public via a SPAC merger with SK Growth Opportunities around September 2024 and expects to raise ~$100M, valuing the online brokerage at $7B+ (Hannah Miao/Wall Street Journal)

New York Times: Sources detail Apple’s $10B+ car project: years of disagreements on whether it should be a self-driving car or just an EV, talks with Musk on buying Tesla, more  —  Internal disagreements over the direction of the Apple… Read More »Sources detail Apple’s $10B+ car project: years of disagreements on whether it should be a self-driving car or just an EV, talks with Musk on buying Tesla, more (New York Times)

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Doc: EU regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying software that competes with its Entra ID identity management service  —  European Union regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers… Read More »Doc: EU regulators are probing whether Microsoft is preventing its customers from buying software that competes with its Entra ID identity management service (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Substack debuts direct messaging, letting users have private one-on-one conversations; by default, users will only receive DMs from people they’re connected to  —  Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the… Read More »Substack debuts direct messaging, letting users have private one-on-one conversations; by default, users will only receive DMs from people they’re connected to (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)