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OpenAI, a new nonprofit for AI research, gets $1B commitment from SV leaders including Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, also AWS, Infosys, YC Research — Introducing OpenAI — OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence …
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Tweets: @paulg, @om, @sama, @rstephens, @shivon, @startupljackson, @haldaume3 and @lanceulanoff
| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Q&A with Elon Musk and Sam Altman on the challenges and benefits of guiding AI research with OpenAI — How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over — Their new organization, OpenAI, wants to pursue the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence—and give the results to the public
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| Rebecca Greenfield / Bloomberg Business: |
Harvard Business School study finds Airbnb hosts accepted guests with stereotypically black names 42% of the time versus 50% for white names — Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts — Renters with names that seemed African American had a harder time booking reservations …
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| Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Twitter Told a Bunch of Users They May Be Targets of a ‘State Sponsored Attack’ — Twitter is letting some users know that their accounts may have been the targets of a state-sponsored attack. … The attack is currently being investigated by Twitter. In their notice to users …
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| New York Times: |
US officials: San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik said she wanted to be part of violent jihad on social media before her visa was approved — U.S. Visa Process Missed Zealotry on Social Media — WASHINGTON — Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino …
Tweets: @saletan, @nytimes, @theharryshearer, @pkafka, @ejtaub and @allahpundit
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Tor Project hires Shari Steele, who led the EFF for 15 years, as its new executive director — Tor Hires a New Leader to Help It Combat the War on Privacy — The Tor Project is entering a crucial phase in its nearly 10-year existence. In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks …
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Tweets: @mattdevost, @wiretaplawyer and @kevinbankston
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple advertising iPhone 6s to older iPhone owners through App Store popups — Apple has begun advertising the iPhone 6s to older iPhone users through the App Store, as spotted by @Dirk_Gently on Twitter. If a user browses the App Store, perhaps updating apps, with an iPhone 5s or earlier device …
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| Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic: |
UC Davis CS professor says it's cryptographers' moral duty to take on the surveillance state, like scientists in the 1950s confronting the threat of nuclear war — The Moral Failure of Computer Scientists … Computer scientists and cryptographers occupy some of the ivory tower's highest floors.
Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu, @jacksmithiv, @dangillmor and @thomas_drake1
| Darren Samuelsohn / Politico: |
Inside the NSA's battle with the private sector to recruit coders, hackers, and engineers — Inside the NSA's hunt for hackers — The government is losing ground in the effort to hire critical cyber talent—but our most secretive agency isn't doing too badly.
Tweets: @politico, @20committee and @peterwsinger
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Gear VR review: portable, works best when used on a swivel chair, can cause pain after long usage, feels like a public beta, not a mainstream, consumer device — Virtually there: the hard reality of the Gear VR — Releasing the Gear VR headset the weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday … | Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft backtracks on some OneDrive storage changes after user complaints, lets users opt-in to keep 15GB of free storage, doesn't reinstate unlimited storage — Microsoft apologizes for offending OneDrive fans, but won't restore unlimited storage — Customers of Microsoft's OneDrive … | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Analytics firm Factual raises $35M to analyze streams of app user location data to build profiles for ads — Startup Factual Knows Your Commute, and Much More... Company, which announced a $35 million funding round, analyzes streaming location data — Researchers earlier this year found …
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