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May 30, 2023, 3:28 AM

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Bloomberg:

Nvidia announces AI products and updates, including the DGX GH200 supercomputer platform, gaming features, data center networking tools, and a robotics platform — In a two-hour presentation in Taiwan, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new batch of products …

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Joseph White / Reuters:

MediaTek partners with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia's GPU chiplets and software into MediaTek SoCs supplied to automakers for infotainment systems — Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and MediaTek Inc (2454.TW) on Monday said they will collaborate on technology to power advanced vehicle infotainment systems …

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LinkedIn: Philippe van den Berge. Tweets: @mediatek, @nikkeiasia, and @skundojjala

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:

MCNA Dental, one of the largest US government-sponsored dental insurers, says hackers stole data of ~8.9M people; LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack — Managed Care of North America (MCNA) Dental has published a data breach notification on its website, informing almost 9 million patients …

More: Office of the Maine Attorney General, IDX, RestorePrivacy, Security Affairs, DataBreachToday.com, and HackRead

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:

Arm transitions to a comprehensive 64-bit platform with new mobile CPU core designs Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520, built on its Armv9.2 architecture — Throughout the world, if there's one universal constant in the smartphone and mobile device market, it's Arm.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Hands-on with Meta's Quest 3 prototype: lighter, thinner, faster, and with better video pass-through than the Quest 2, but the VR displays have similar clarity — This week, I go hands-on with Meta's yet-to-be-announced Quest 3 and explain how it may be the biggest challenger to Apple's new headset.

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Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:

A profile of YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, credited with bulking up its ad and subscription businesses while seeking to crack down on dangerous and misleading videos — Neal Mohan goofs around with creators and woos advertisers to the platform's short videos and TV offerings

Tweets: @tsoh_investing and @youtubeliaison

Michael Brooks / MIT Technology Review:

An interview with IBM VP of Quantum Computing Jay Gambetta on the company's plan to build a 100,000-qubit computer within 10 years, finding scientists, and more — The company wants to make large-scale quantum computers a reality within just 10 years. — Late last year, IBM took the record …

Tweets: @johnkoetsier, @lcheylus, and @trengriffin

Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at media coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting — The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months.

More: gHacks Technology News and NPR

Tweets: @riptari, @caffar3cristina, @momblogger, @emilymbender, @emilymbender, @emilymbender, @janebsinger, @emilymbender, @datadhrumil, and @venkatananth

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:

Tokyo-based Gitai, which develops a robotic arm and a robotic rover for in-space applications, raised a ~$30M Series B extension led by Global Brain Corporation — There is a groundswell of commercial space initiatives focused on the moon, with established companies and newer upstarts …

More: Bloomberg, Gitai, Bloomberg, SpaceNews, The Investor, Global Brain, FinSMEs, dot.LA, and gHacks Technology News

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

An interview with Niels Provos and David Mazieres, co-inventors of the password-hashing function bcrypt, which turns 25 in 2023, on password security and more — The co-inventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function's 25 years and channeling cybersecurity's core themes into electronic dance music.

More: USENIX and Slashdot

Tweets: @thorsheim and @lilyhnewman

Financial Times:

How the US is increasingly reshaping the spyware market to favor companies selling cyberweapons to the US and its allies, like Israeli startup Paragon Solutions — Contrasting fates of Israeli spyware-makers Paragon and NSO reveal how American support is crucial in $12bn industry

Dave Lawler / Axios:

A look at Ukraine's Diia app, used by 19M citizens to access digital IDs and other government services, along with an “e-Enemy” feature to report Russian troops — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in 2019 on a pledge to put “the state in a smartphone.”

Tweets: @axios

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Alex Ritman / Variety:

In Channel 4's 2025 Alternative Christmas Message, Jimmy Kimmel said “tyranny is booming” in the US and, on his ABC suspension, “We won, the president lost”

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Henry Blodget / Regenerator:

Bari Weiss' 60 Minutes decision may have been a way to both signal that she's serious about shifting CBS' sensibility to the right and “improve” a story

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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

JioCinema breaks the global record for the most concurrent views to a live-streamed event with 33M+ viewers for the May 29 IPL final, surpassing Hotstar's 25.3M

More: Bloomberg and Inc42 Media

Tweets: @ravisutanjani, @aviralbhat, and @aparanjape

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:

Glassnode: 14.85% of all ether was held in exchange-controlled wallets on May 25, the lowest level since summer 2016, as staking soaks up the available supply

More: Bitcoin News and Cryptopolitan

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Source: HSBC plans to rebrand Silicon Valley Bank UK, acquired for £1, as HSBC Innovation Banking and announce the change during London Tech Week in June

Tweets: @markkleinmansky

Song Jung-a / Financial Times:

South Korea-based Naver plans to offer localized versions of its LLM to governments worried about US data controls, to address political and cultural issues

More: Bloomberg. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Tweets: @mayazi and @hare_brain

Sara Korolevich / Checkr:

A survey of 3,000 US Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers: 85% used AI tools to perform tasks at work; Millennials lead with 89% having used AI at work

More: Insider and Tech News Outlet

Matthew Gault / VICE:

A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that uses AI-generated captchas to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks

Tweets: @jeffjarvis, @lazerwalker, @gregegansf, @motherboard, and @vice

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Rebecca Feng / Wall Street Journal:

Analysts and others say Wind Information, described as a Chinese alternative to the Bloomberg terminal, is limiting international users' access to some info

Tweets: @tyillc, @pstasiatech, @jchengwsj, and @jchengwsj

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

In July, NYC will start enforcing a law requiring firms using AI in hiring to notify candidates of its use and have independent auditors check for bias annually

More: The Korea Herald. LinkedIn: Steve Katcher, Roy Kaufman, Alex Sommer, and Dr. Angela Jackson

Tweets: @nytimes, @ruchowdh, @stevelohr, and @alondra

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:

Apple's MR headset could succeed where others failed by adding more 3D content and interfaces but faces a challenge in balancing computing power and wearability

Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World:

Activists and telecom experts say the Kenyan government's plan to track counterfeit phones, approved by the Supreme Court, is “excessive” and threatens privacy

Tweets: @restofworld

Andrew Logan / Texas Monthly:

A profile of Tapbots co-founders Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine; former Twitter executive Amir Shevat says third-party apps once accounted for ~17% of engagement

More: 9to5Mac and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @benedictevans

Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:

A New York lawyer faces sanctions for using ChatGPT to write his legal brief that had “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations”

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