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September 26, 2022, 7:05 AM

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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
UK police arrest and charge a 17-year-old with computer misuse and breaches of bail, believed to be related to the recent Uber and Rockstar hacks  —  The City of London police announced on Twitter today the arrest of a British 17-year-old teen suspected of being involved in recent cyberattacks.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
The iPhone, in its third year of a three-year design cycle, may be overhauled in 2023; Apple may delay Pay Later to 2023 and may not host an October 2022 event  —  I've spent the last week or so testing out the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and I believe it sets the stage for larger changes next year.
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg:
South Korea says Interpol has issued a Red Notice for Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon; prosecutors say Kwon disappeared from Singapore after September 17  —  South Korea said Interpol requested law enforcement worldwide to locate and arrest Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon …
The Verge:
Amazon confirms a second two-day shopping event in 2022, the Prime Early Access Sale, to be held on October 11-12 in 15 countries, including the US and the UK  —  The rumors were true: Amazon's holding a second Prime-exclusive sales event starting on Tuesday, October 11th at 3AM ET / 12AM PT and running through Wednesday, October 12th.
Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
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.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Apple confirms that a Foxconn plant near Indian city Chennai is manufacturing iPhone 14 models; locally assembled phones will be sold in India later in 2022  —  Apple has started assembling the iPhone 14 models in India, it said Monday, locally producing the current lineup …
David Heaney / UploadVR:
In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning  —  Meta researchers demonstrated Quest 2 body tracking without extra trackers.  —  Current VR systems ship with a headset and held controllers …
Reuters:
Sources: Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi express concerns over India's home-grown GPS plan, arguing integrating the system would be costly and require new hardware  —  India is pushing tech giants to make smartphones compatible with its home-grown navigation system within months …
Tiernan Ray / ZDNet:
An interview with Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today's most popular approaches to AI won't lead to human-level machine intelligence  —  (Article is updated with a rebuttal by Gary Marcus in context.)  —  Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta Properties …

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