Journals

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers detail a spam campaign using hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from reputable brands like eBay and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily  —  A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000… Read More »Researchers detail a spam campaign using hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from reputable brands like eBay and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bloomberg: During oral arguments, justices seemed reluctant to completely strike down Texas and Florida social media laws but worried about impacts to companies’ 1A rights  —  – Justices wary of entirely striking down Texas, Florida laws  — But court voices… Read More »During oral arguments, justices seemed reluctant to completely strike down Texas and Florida social media laws but worried about impacts to companies’ 1A rights (Bloomberg)

The Economic Times: Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about the Indian market, competition, achieving profitability, regrets about selling UberEats in India, regulations, more  —  Dara Khosrowshahi took over as the CEO of Uber Technologies in 2017, when the mobility… Read More »Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about the Indian market, competition, achieving profitability, regrets about selling UberEats in India, regulations, more (The Economic Times)

Washington Post: Live blog of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court for a pair of cases involving Florida and Texas social media laws that impose strict limits on moderation  —  Supreme Court justices are weighing how the First Amendment… Read More »Live blog of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court for a pair of cases involving Florida and Texas social media laws that impose strict limits on moderation (Washington Post)

Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers’ compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more  —  AI will change adult entertainment forever.  The risks — for sex workers… Read More »How AI is changing the adult entertainment industry, raising concerns about performers’ compensation and rights to their likeness, abuse prevention, and more (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: South Korea’s SK Telecom partners with Perplexity to access its proprietary models and to offer Perplexity’s paid version of its AI-based search engine for free  —  SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telco, is partnering with U.S.… Read More »South Korea’s SK Telecom partners with Perplexity to access its proprietary models and to offer Perplexity’s paid version of its AI-based search engine for free (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: The EU is asking developers about the impact of Apple’s decision to disable PWAs in the EU, seen as a precursor to a formal investigation into the company  —  Competition regulators in Brussels send questions… Read More »The EU is asking developers about the impact of Apple’s decision to disable PWAs in the EU, seen as a precursor to a formal investigation into the company (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: OpenPlus debuts the 1.43″ OnePlus Watch 2, its first Wear OS watch, featuring the Snapdragon W5 and a claimed 100-hour battery life, starting at $299  —  The OnePlus Watch 2 has just officially launched as the… Read More »OpenPlus debuts the 1.43″ OnePlus Watch 2, its first Wear OS watch, featuring the Snapdragon W5 and a claimed 100-hour battery life, starting at $299 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Victoria Song / The Verge: Google announces new Wear OS updates, including revamping notifications to improve battery life, Google Maps public transit directions, and Google Wallet passes  —  At the heart of it is a way of handling notifications that… Read More »Google announces new Wear OS updates, including revamping notifications to improve battery life, Google Maps public transit directions, and Google Wallet passes (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mistral AI releases a GPT-4 rival called Mistral Large, which supports context windows of 32k tokens, and a ChatGPT-like chat assistant called Le Chat in beta  —  Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI is gradually building an… Read More »Mistral AI releases a GPT-4 rival called Mistral Large, which supports context windows of 32k tokens, and a ChatGPT-like chat assistant called Le Chat in beta (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)