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Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it — Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
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Sources and documents: Binance and Binance.US are more intertwined than they have disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity to trade crypto — The exchange was intertwined with an American firm portrayed as independent. Now, regulators are circling.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft announces Dynamics 365 Copilot, built using OpenAI's tech, helping draft contextual chat and email answers and more, rolling out in preview — Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's new 24" iMac is in engineering validation testing, set to launch in H2 2023 at the earliest, likely with the M3, and in the old iMac's colors — Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac. Also: Its cloud chief is set to leave …
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| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
At the National People's Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation for its tech hardware sector — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China's crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent … | Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China plans to create an agency to manage the country's data stores, shifting from multiple ministries, seeking to streamline its regulatory structure — Beijing's plan to streamline regulatory structure would bring all data-related issues under a single agency| Associated Press: |
German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI's evolution and safeguard humanity's future — Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying …
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| Wired: |
An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender — Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
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| Reuters: |
The EU says WhatsApp agreed to increase transparency over its privacy policy changes from 2021, letting users reject the rules, limiting data sharing, and more — Meta Platforms' (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work” — Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history
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| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Sources: around 20 leaders at Clubhouse have left over the past year, including hires from Meta, Google, and others; Clubhouse continues to add “top talent” — Roughly 20 leaders have departed Clubhouse over the past year or so, including many of the notable hires …
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