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Project 007: everything we know so far

Three SIM-swapping gangs separately claimed multiple times on Telegram to have phished staff at T-Mobile throughout 2022, far more often than other US carriers (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

The US Marshals Service suffered a ransomware attack and data theft on a "stand-alone USMS system"; source: breach didn't affect the witness protection database (NBC News)

Sources: The Boring Company CEO Steve Davis has been in charge of Twitter's cost-cutting, including recent layoffs, amid talk that he will be Twitter's next CEO (Platformer)

Sources: Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT (Jon Victor/The Information)

DCG reports 2022 revenue of $719M and a loss of $1.1B as the firm struggled with plunging crypto prices and the restructuring of its lending platform, Genesis (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Google announces new features for Android, ChromeOS, and Wear OS, including Fast Pair support for Chromebooks, Keep shortcuts, and Wear OS accessibility modes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Sources: Tencent established a team to work on "HunyuanAide", a ChatGPT-style chatbot using Tencent's Hunyuan training model, following Alibaba and Baidu (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Filing: China Renaissance says founder Bao Fan is "co-operating in an investigation", more than a week after disclosing his unexplained disappearance (Hudson Lockett/Financial Times)

Quordle today - hints and answers for Monday, February 27 (game #399)

Some crypto projects are abandoning terms like NFTs, which became associated with unsavory get-rich-quick scams, in favor of terms like "digital collectibles" (Stephen Graves/Decrypt)

Some experts, particularly those advocating for "ethical AI" or "responsible AI", say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous for the public (Wall Street Journal)

The recovery of ~120,000 stolen ether by Jump and Oasis demonstrates the centralization of DeFi enabled by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts (Molly White)

Sources: Dish Network has been hit by a cyberattack "by an outside bad actor" and the company is working with an external vendor to resolve the issue (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Boston-based Electra Vehicles, which provides AI-based cloud and onboard software for EV battery systems optimization, raised $21M led by United Ventures (Silicon Canals)

As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators say they are often being asked to prove that they're human (Kate Lindsay/The Verge)

Q&A with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson about inventing the metaverse concept, his blockchain startup Lamina1, not using ChatGPT to help write novels, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; China accounted for 55% of filings, the US accounted for 26%, and UK for 0.26% (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board, after the startup offered a "pay to play" deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Experts caution the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond toward automation, creating a dangerous slippery slope (Morgan Meaker/Wired)

The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Amazon plans to integrate its logistics network and SaaS tools with India's Open Network for Digital Commerce, after Paytm and others committed to joining ONDC (Moneycontrol)

Jump Crypto recovers 120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit after Oasis upgraded a DeFi contract following a UK high court order (Jon Rice/Blockworks)

Politwoops, a ProPublica project that tracked and archived politicians' deleted tweets since 2012, is shutting down as the required Twitter tools no longer work (Derek Willis/ProPublica)

OpenAI details its preparations for "if AGI is successfully created", including being cautious with its models and operating as if the risks are existential (Sam Altman/OpenAI)

Source: Apple has hired a TV and digital video advertising executive, Lauren Fry, to help build a video ad business for Apple TV+ (Sahil Patel/The Information)