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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 — American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours.| Molly White: |
The recovery of ~120,000 stolen ether by Jump and Oasis demonstrates the centralization of DeFi enabled by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts — Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts.
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| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
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 — Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22 and claims users will be able to replace its battery in around five minutes and screen in ~20 minutes with an iFixit kit — HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen, charging port …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
News Corp says attackers behind a data breach the company disclosed in February 2022 gained access in February 2020, stealing some personal data including SSNs — Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; Chinese companies accounted for 55%, US companies 26%, and UK companies 0.26% — The U.K. only accounted for 0.26% of the global total. — China is neither the world's largest developer of chips nor the world's largest maker of semiconductors.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
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 — ChatGPT and Bing are trying to stay out of politics — and failing — Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led campaigns …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
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 — Neal Stephenson's science-fiction writing has predicted (and inspired) innovations from cryptocurrency to Alexa.
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| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
Experts: the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond to hand over more control to AI, creating a slippery slope — Drones that can find their own targets already exist, making machine-versus-machine conflict just a software update away.| Kate Lindsay / The Verge: |
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 — Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day, however, a different conversation was going down.
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| Silicon Canals: |
Boston-based Electra Vehicles, which provides AI-based cloud and onboard software for EV battery systems optimization, raised $21M led by United Ventures — Boston, USA-based Electra Vehicles, a B2B electric vehicle AI software company, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $21M … | Ranjan Roy / Margins: |
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital — Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household. For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment …
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