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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.
More: TorrentFreak, AI and Copyright, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Mashable
Mastodon: @TryshHQ@mastodon.social, @acookiecrumbles …, @Samuelmoore@hcommons.social, @mpe@ravenation.club, @johnshirley2024 …, @technursejon@mastodon.art, @Dhmspector@mastodon.social, and @elkmovie@mastodon.social
X: @mkirschenbaum, @nash076, @stevesi, @cromwellian, @garymarcus, @glynmoody, @cromwellian, @dwcongdon, @galbeckerman, @lmatsakis, @avishaiw, @dlberes, @srnlrsn, @leifweatherby, @iamrobotbear, @garymarcus, @marc__watkins, @lmatsakis, @heidilegg, @lmatsakis, @kbandersen, @theatlantic, @sam_fentress, @kz_howell, @dlberes, @kylebarr5, @lincodega, @theshawwn, @jeffreygoldberg, and @ivanthek. LinkedIn: João Fiadeiro
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week — Meta Platforms plans to launch a web version of microblogging app Threads early this week, the biggest new feature to be introduced on its competitor to Elon Musk's X. The desktop version would address one of the biggest …
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Barron's Online, PhoneArena, Mashable, Phandroid, Search Engine Journal, Reuters, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, TweakTown, The Information, Livemint, and SamMobile
Threads: @salrodriguez. Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @bariawilliams, @ivanthek, @parkerortolani, @jeremychrysler, and @sivavaid
| 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.
More: Reuters, Adobe Press Releases, TechCircle, Cybernews.com, The Verge, AppleInsider, International Business Times, and Stack Diary
Mastodon: @misty@digipres.club and @harrymccracken@sfba.social. Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com
X: @pbump, @johnnie, @timsweeneyepic, @_danilo, @stevesi, @affinitybyserif, @trengriffin, and @themoridwan
LinkedIn: Tim Marklein and Vish Mishra
Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| 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
| 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, Ghacks, Insider, Livemint, Gizchina, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Social Media Today, and PCMag
Threads: @reporterzoe, @reporterzoe, and @carnage4life
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X: @tomcoates, @zoeschiffer, @illneil, @leahmcelrath, @martinsfp, @fy4chan, @btsthroughyears, @rebel44cz, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @tomcoates, @peanut_crunch, @elranno, @mat, @bfriedmandc, @jayrosen_nyu, @velodus, @stealthygeek, @rmac18, @tvaziri, @broderick, @bubbaprog, @faineg, and @tomcoates
Forums: Hacker News, r/conspiracy, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the potential impact of the EU's DSA and DMA on Big Tech, as some say the effect may 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| 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, Security Affairs, and PCMag
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 wrote using generative AI, 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
| Bloomberg: |
A look at online trading scams that have cost European consumers billions, perpetrated by fraudsters in highly professional call centers dubbed “boiler rooms” — - ‘Boiler room’ operations scam consumers out of huge sums — Europe's largest economy has become a key target in Europe
X: @jeremylawhodges, @samdagher, and @bloomberguk
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