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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 … | 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.| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How a false facial recognition match led to a Black woman being wrongfully arrested for carjacking and robbery in Detroit, the first such known case for a woman — Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking.| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
PayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers gradually — - PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector| 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 … | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How Black users are searching for a replacement to Black Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, from Mastodon to Threads to Fanbase, becoming a “digital diaspora” — The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a “digital diaspora” in search of a new home.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: useful cover screen and widgets, IPX8, and five years of patches, but so-so battery, tricky cover apps, and unknown durability — It's a big update year for Samsung's flip-style foldable — and a much larger cover screen makes all the difference.| Reuters: |
Researchers: North Korean hackers installed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for five months in 2022 to read emails and more — An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year … | Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF reports a $15.6B loss in 2022 after its Vision Fund and tech investments cratered; assets under management reached $595.5B due to Aramco — - Softbank's fund saw a record loss of $32 billion in 2022 — Current estimates place the PIF's assets at $777 billion| 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.| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
A look at Senator Chuck Schumer's efforts to boost US chip manufacturing, including marshalling the CHIPS Act, leading to substantial funds flowing to New York — The Senate majority leader helped deliver billions of dollars in federal funding for semiconductors. Now he's pushing for his state to reap benefits.| Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: |
Shanghai-based Hua Hong Semiconductor raises ~$2.96B in its Shanghai IPO, the Asia Pacific region's largest 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| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Toshiba announces a ~$14B tender offer to take the company private at ~$32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies — Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private …
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