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The US Treasury updates its guidance to let US tech companies expand their internet services in Iran, after the country took most of its ~83M citizens offline — The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday that it was updating guidance to U.S. tech firms to expand the range of internet services available …
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A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers' archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi — As the conflict raged, Ukrainian tech workers at Respeecher hurried to bring back James Earl Jones's legendary voice for Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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A look at The Follower, an art project using open-source facial recognition software to match Instagram photos with EarthCam video footage of people taking them — A tech-savvy artist unearthed video footage of people working hard to capture the perfect shot for Instagram.| Che Pan / South China Morning Post: |
A profile of YMTC, China's top memory chip maker that could end up in the crosshairs of US sanctions; YMTC had 1% share of the global memory chip market in 2020 — A few months before the US-China trade war started in July 2018, local media coverage of President Xi Jinping was focused …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods — A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties.
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
An interview with Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level intelligence — (Article is updated with a rebuttal by Gary Marcus in context.) — Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta Properties, owner of Facebook …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Governor Newsom vetoes a crypto regulation bill that required licenses to facilitate transactions; the California State Assembly passed the bill in August 2022 — The California Assembly passed the bill, which would create a licensing regime and stablecoin stipulations, at the end of August.
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Using translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs, some Chinese creators are getting millions of views for TikTok videos summarizing Hollywood movies and shows — With machine translation, dubbing apps and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.
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Bulgaria arrested a Russian native and the likely RSOCKS botnet owner in June 2022 at the US' request; he asked for, and was granted, extradition to the US — A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson's blockchain technology startup Lamina1 posts a whitepaper about building an open metaverse, Theee Metaverse, on the Lamina1 chain — Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper today on building the open metaverse. It's quite the manifesto.| Patricia Allen / EU-Startups: |
Paris-based Zenchef, which offers restaurants tools to enhance customer experience and optimize front-of-house operations, has raised €50M+ from PSG Equity — Restaurant tech player Zenchef has raised over €50 million from PSG Equity as it consolidates its position as a European leader in this space.
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Leaked audio: at a Google all-hands, Sundar Pichai expressed some annoyance at employees asking about cost cutting, telling them not to “equate fun with money” — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent much of this week's all-hands meeting addressing employee concerns about company cost-cutting measures.
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