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August 8, 2023, 2:45 PM
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The Guardian:
The UK Electoral Commission reports a hack by “hostile actors” starting in August 2021 and identified in October 2022; the full scope isn't “conclusively” known  —  Names and addresses of 40 million registered voters were accessible as far back as 2021 after cyber-attack
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia announces the Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024  —  - Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation  — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia announces AI Workbench, letting users create, test, and tweak LLMs from Hugging Face and others on local workstations before utilizing cloud resources  —  Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create …
Jane Friedman:
An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads; both services have since removed them  —  Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:
Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62  —  The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.  —  Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
After the countless times Elon Musk has walked back announcements, the business media must rethink its coverage of X, Musk, and the fight with Mark Zuckerberg  —  After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
Nikkei Asia:
Source: Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, and Intel plan to invest in Arm as soon as its Nasdaq IPO in September 2023; SoftBank owns 75% of Arm and Vision Fund owns 25%  —  SoftBank chip design unit to debut on Nasdaq, market cap seen topping $60bn  —  SoftBank Group plans to list shares in its chip deign unit …
Bloomberg:
TSMC plans to build a €10B plant in Germany's Dresden, owning 70% of the fab while Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each hold 10% stakes, set to open by the end of 2027  —  - Taiwanese giant will own 70% of fab in eastern city of Dresden  — Facility to supply auto, industrial sectors starting in 2027
Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with Grimes on her “c” persona, letting people use her voice in their music, AI, social media, Elon Musk, NFTs, a stronger sense of ethics in tech, and more  —  Claire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.
Hugh Son / CNBC:
The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total  —  - U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications.
Wall Street Journal:
EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon  —  Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI's GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta's LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian  —  New research explains you'll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask.  —  Should companies have social responsibilities?
Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal:
OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can opt out using robots.txt
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Spotify expands its AI-powered DJ beta, available in the app's Music feed, to ~50 markets, six months after debuting the English-only feature in North America  —  Spotify is expanding its AI-powered “DJ” to dozens of markets globally, six months after debuting the feature in North America.
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
A US judge denies Google's request for a summary judgment in a $5B lawsuit over tracking users' activities in Incognito mode, pushing the case closer to a trial  —  / Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers denied Google's push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over the way it tracked internet activity …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment that uses Visual Studio Code Open Source and integrates with Google's PaLM 2-based Codey  —  Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment …

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Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
Vox Media sells The Verge, SB Nation, Thrillist, The Dodo, and more to Penske; Vox's Ryan Pauley will join Penske as president of PMX, the new media brands unit

Stephen Bush / Financial Times:
The BBC will damage or scrap some crown jewels in current affairs by canceling The World Tonight, Crossing Continents, and Money Box Live, and making other cuts

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
USA Today is using AI-assisted, pre-written soccer World Cup “shell files” for breaking news to capture traffic before Google's AI Overviews generate summaries

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Earlier Picks

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Sources: in the fall of 2020, the NSA discovered that Chinese hackers had access to Japanese defense networks; the problem persisted until at least fall 2021
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Developer logs: Apple is testing an M3 Max with 16 processing cores and 40 graphics cores in a MacBook Pro with 48GB of RAM that the company could debut in 2024
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition, after a preliminary review found the deal may reduce competition
Hayden Field / CNBC:
Zoom updates its terms to let the company train its AI models using some customer data, but doesn't plan to use audio, video, or chat content without consent
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says Bing Chat, which is only available in products like its Edge browser and Bing app, is coming “soon” to third-party browsers, including on mobile
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