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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken — Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.
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X: @tomcoates, @martinsfp, @leahmcelrath, @fy4chan, @jayrosen_nyu, @peanut_crunch, @tomcoates, @broderick, @bubbaprog, @elranno, @velodus, @rebel44cz, @tomcoates, @stealthygeek, @tomcoates, @mat, @tomcoates, @rmac18, @faineg, @tvaziri, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @zoeschiffer, @illneil, @btsthroughyears, and @bfriedmandc. Forums: Hacker News
| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from Stephen King and other authors — Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.
More: TorrentFreak, Gizmodo, and Mashable
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X: @mkirschenbaum, @kbandersen, @stevesi, @dlberes, @theshawwn, @theatlantic, @sam_fentress, @kylebarr5, @jeffreygoldberg, @lincodega, @garymarcus, @ivanthek, and @kz_howell. Forums: Hacker News
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Windows file archiver utility maker WinRAR fixes a vulnerability that could let an attacker remotely execute arbitrary code, after a researcher flagged the flaw — A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Cruise complies with California DMV's request to halve its fleet, as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving its robotaxis in San Francisco — Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following …
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LinkedIn: John Hayes, Philip Koopman, and Junko Yoshida
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, r/sanfrancisco, and Slashdot
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
As Big Tech companies compel employees back to the office, some companies, like Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Twilio, remain steadfast backers of remote work — - Some tech companies still see benefit of work-from-home policy — Move runs counter to effort to revive US office comeback
More: Insider. Threads: @carnage4life. X: @news_by_nick and @business
LinkedIn: Matthew Boyle, Annie Dean, and Brody Ford
| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A judge upholds a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection as “human authorship is a bedrock requirement” — A federal judge on Friday upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by AI is not open to protection.
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| Louise Matsakis / Semafor: |
Q&A with TikTok Head of Music Ole Obermann on launching TikTok Music in Indonesia and Brazil before the US and helping artists from discovery to distribution — Since it first exploded in popularity five years ago, TikTok has evolved into the de facto launching pad for new musicians around the world … | Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
US intelligence agencies warn US space companies that China and Russia are targeting them and preparing cyberattacks that could disable satellites in a conflict — U.S. officials say Chinese and Russian spy agencies are trying to steal technology from private American space companies … | Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Source: in H1 2023, Instacart's revenue grew 30%+ YoY to ~$1.4B but gross transaction volume grew ~5% YoY; Instacart reportedly plans to go public in September — When Instacart executives begin their initial public offering pitch to investors as early as next week, they face a challenge.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the AI-powered robots that help maintain critical US infrastructure, including from Gecko Robotics, Skydio, Anybotics, Invert Robotics, and Greensea — Robots fly, walk, swim and crawl with new sensors and artificial intelligence to spot—and sometimes fix—problems.
Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social and @mimsical@mastodon.social
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Analysis: daily trading volumes surge on Coinbase International, an offshore derivatives exchange Coinbase launched in May 2023, reaching $287M on August 18 — - Coinbase's offshore derivatives exchange has experienced a surge in daily trading volumes, reaching $287 million on August 18.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon restarts Amazon Shipping, its UPS and FedEx competitor that handles packages from other websites, after pausing the US service earlier in the pandemic — Amazon Shipping, paused earlier in the pandemic, handles packages from other websites and selling channels
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