- An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's GPT-4, how "people should be happy" that OpenAI is a "little bit scared of" its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more (ABC News)
- How open source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping debunk claims (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- China's anti-graft watchdog begins to investigate ex-Tsinghua Unigroup Chairman Zhao Weiguo, the latest executive to become ensnared its chip corruption dragnet (Bloomberg)
- Research: ByteDance's video editing app CapCut, launched in 2020, has 200M+ MAUs and 400M+ downloads in 2022, up 43% YoY, surpassing TikTok in recent weeks (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
- India cuts mobile internet access for a second day across Punjab, a state of ~27M people, as it tries to catch a Sikh separatist and curb "fake news" and unrest (Washington Post)
- Source: in his upcoming March 23 testimony to Congress, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to unveil that TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020 (Carol E. Lee/NBC News)
- The FDIC announces a deal to sell Signature Bank's deposits, excluding those in its digital banking business, some loans, and its 40 branches to Flagstar Bank (Pete Schroeder/Reuters)
- Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier reached ~1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company fulfilled its forecasted deliveries to advertisers (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- Amid mounting safety concerns about Tesla's FSD, ex-staffers blame Elon Musk's erratic leadership, cost-cutting measures like removing radar, and more (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)
- UChicago researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their "artistic IP", by adding imperceptible "perturbations" to their art (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- Researchers detail a recently fixed aCropalypse vulnerability in Google Pixel's Markup tool that lets some screenshots be retroactively unredacted or uncropped (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Replika and Character.AI, who offer AI companions, are no longer allowing adult content, angering some users who have become deeply involved with their chatbots (Anna Tong/Reuters)
- A look back at PLATO, an educational computer system released in 1960 that some consider a precursor to graphics, touchscreens, messaging apps, games, and more (Cameron Kaiser/Ars Technica)
- A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections (Inside Higher Ed)
- Interview with Microsoft VP of design and research Jon Friedman about the company's vision for 365 Copilot, lessons learned from Bing AI, ethical concerns, more (Tom Warren/The Verge)