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Google adds Photomath, which lets users solve math problems by taking a photo, to its Play Store and App Store publisher accounts, after buying the app in 2022 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

GitHub enables push protection by default for all public repositories to prevent accidental leaks of secrets like access tokens and API keys when pushing code (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Alibaba researchers detail EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, an AI system that can create realistic talking and singing videos from portrait photos (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

JFrog says it found around a hundred malicious ML models on Hugging Face, some of which can backdoor users' machines (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Sources: Nigeria detains two senior Binance executives who flew to the country following its decision last week to ban several crypto trading websites (Financial Times)

Tim Cook says Apple will "break new ground" on generative AI this year; Apple shareholders reject a request for report into whether Apple is using AI ethically (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Internal docs: Tumblr staff compiled users' data in preparation for deals where Automattic would sell the data to OpenAI and Midjourney to train AI tools (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Sources: Sonos delays its launch of $449 headphones to June, a month later than previously hoped, after hitting software snags, and aims to make up to 1M units (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also offers some absurd responses, highlighting the need for flourishing open source AI (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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)

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)

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)

Q&A with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev about the meme-stock craze, launching in the UK and EU, becoming customers' primary financial institution, and more (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)

A consultant working for Rep. Dean Phillips, who challenged Biden in NH's primary, admits to producing the deepfake robocalls, saying anyone can do it for $500 (Alex Seitz-Wald/NBC News)

A year after EU governments moved to restrict TikTok over security concerns, politicians are flocking to the app to attract the youth vote in upcoming elections (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)

Xiaomi launches Xiaomi 14 Ultra with a 6.73" LTPO 120Hz display, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and 50MP camera with a 1-inch-type Sony LYT-900 sensor, starting at €1,499 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Sources: Broadcom is nearing a $3.8B deal to sell its end-user computing unit to private equity firm KKR (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Reddit's S-1 shows how dependent the site is on the unpaid labor of 60K active daily moderators and the whims of its users and subreddits like r/WallStreetBets (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

How tensions between past and present leaders of Sequoia, which had a reputation for quiet competence, have spilled into the open with the Klarna boardroom spat (Financial Times)

Many redditors say they are not enthused about Reddit's IPO and expect CEO Steve Huffman to run the site into the ground while trying to make it profitable (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for "priority access" customers from March to "mid-April" (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Florida passes one of the US' most restrictive bills on minors' social media use, despite First Amendment concerns; Governor Ron DeSantis has to sign the bill (Brendan Farrington/Associated Press)

The US FTC says Avast needs to pay $16.5M and stop selling web browsing data for ads to settle charges that the UK company misrepresented its use of such data (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)

Google DeepMind announces AI Safety and Alignment, an organization that includes a new team focused on AGI safety alongside existing teams working on AI safety (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Filing: Roblox paid out a record $740.8M to over 12,000 game creators in 2023, up 19% YoY; ~3,500 creators earned over $10,000, and ~750 earned over $100K (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Over the past several days, attackers targeted smaller Mastodon servers by signing up spam accounts; Eugen Rochko said previously only big servers were targeted (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)