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| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta's Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz — One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It's being made in secret.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week, addressing a longstanding wish list item; Adam Mosseri confirmed testing the web app — Meta Platforms plans to launch a web version of microblogging app Threads early this week, the biggest new feature to be introduced …
More: 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, PhoneArena, Mashable, Phandroid, The Verge, TweakTown, The Information, Livemint, and SamMobile
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| Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: |
John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and was the company's CEO until 2000 and CTO until retiring in 2001, died on August 19 at age 82 — Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement.
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LinkedIn: Tim Marklein and Vish Mishra
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| Matt Novak / Forbes: |
Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter's native shortening service are broken too — 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.
More: The Verge, The Guardian, Ghacks, Insider, Livemint, Gizchina, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Social Media Today, and PCMag
Threads: @reporterzoe, @reporterzoe, and @carnage4life
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
PeckShield: a wallet tied to the ~$600M Binance Coin hack in October 2022 had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol, after using BNB as collateral — Cryptocurrencies' sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack.
More: The Daily Hodl, Cryptopolitan, The Block, and Politico
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the potential impact of the EU DSA and DMA on Big Tech; some say the effect could be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks — Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those imposed on banks
More: PYMNTS.com and The Information
X: @hutko, @richardhanania, @wsjtech, @wavesblog, and @samschech
| New York Times: |
A look at Music: Not Impossible's haptic suit, consisting of a backpack and ankle and wrist bands, which lets people feel music as vibrations on their bodies — Wearable backpacks designed by Music: Not Impossible, which allow people to experience music as vibrations on their bodies, are becoming more accessible to the public.
X: @smbahr14, @smbahr14, @smbahr14, and @dave_parisi
| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more — Effort fuels prime minister's ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field
More: TNW, The Guardian, UKTN, Coinspeaker, Bloomberg, Wccftech, and Cointelegraph
| Jessica Lucas / The Verge: |
Some clinicians think unrealistic depictions of dissociative identity disorder on TikTok are influencing young people to self-diagnose or imitate the disorder — TikTok's dissociative identity disorder community thinks doctors don't know what's going on. Some doctors feel the same about them.| Kavish Harjai / Associated Press: |
The US announces $667M in new grants and loans for 37 new recipients to expand rural broadband infrastructure, after allocating $771.4M in April and June 2023 — The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants …
More: The Verge and Telecompetitor
| 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 …
More: Zero Day Initiative, Tom's Hardware, WinBuzzer, BetaNews, and Security Affairs
X: @saintdle, @veliuotila, and @seqrity9
LinkedIn: Artem Baranov and Pascal Ackerman
Forums: r/Piracy, r/InfoSecNews, and Slashdot
| Amanda Hoover / Wired: |
How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors used generative AI to write without disclosure — Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there's no foolproof way to catch it all yet.
More: The Decoder. X: @wiredscience, @byamandahoover, @nalanpog, @kunews, @gcabanac, @wired, and @microbiomdigest
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