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UK researchers train a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with 95% accuracy overall and 93% on Zoom — A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple acknowledges the US “smartphone market has been in a decline for the last couple of quarters”; sources: the iPhone 15 will go on sale around September 22 — On the cusp of the iPhone 15 debut, Apple has finally admitted what has long been clear: The industry is facing a smartphone slowdown.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI — A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware.
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| New York Times: |
Shoddy self-published guidebooks, which appear to be compiled with the help of generative AI and promoted via deceptive reviews, are proliferating on Amazon — In March, as she planned for an upcoming trip to France, Amy Kolsky, an experienced international traveler who lives in Bucks County …
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| Reuters: |
Elon Musk claims X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform” — Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly …
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
X delays its Ads Revenue Sharing program's payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations” — In news that isn't very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X …
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| Misha Glenny / Financial Times: |
A profile of Clop, a Russian-speaking hacking group specializing in ransomware, responsible for the MOVEit hack, and likely operating out of Russia and Ukraine — They hold global businesses to ransom and seem to act with impunity — but behind them lies a tangled geopolitical web| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Krakow-based Android phone monitoring app LetMeSpy plans to shut down by the end of August 2023 after a hacker breached and deleted its server data in June — Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Some US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids' online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user — Today let's talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously.
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| Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: |
China's Hua Hong Semiconductor raises $2.96B in its Shanghai IPO, the largest in the Asia Pacific region in 2023; the company is already listed in Hong Kong — - Company raised nearly $3 billion through the share sale — It is the largest listing in the Asia Pacific region this year
More: Reuters, CNBC, Tech in Asia, and South China Morning Post
| New York Times: |
Indiana is converting 10K acres of corn and bean fields into an innovation park, hoping to transform the state into a microchip manufacturing and research hub — The state has little experience with semiconductors, but the Biden administration has promised to unleash opportunity in …
More: ChinaTechNews.com
| Financial Times: |
Yang Hyang-ja, a South Korean lawmaker and former Samsung executive, says US-led China chip curbs risk damaging South Korea's relations with its Asian allies — Former Samsung executive Yang Hyang-ja warns of risk of damaging relations with Asian allies — An influential South Korean legislator …
Forums: r/China and r/neoliberal
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