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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China plans to expand its ban on iPhones in sensitive departments to government agencies and state companies, an unprecedented blockade; AAPL drops 3%+ — - Beijing begins by banning the devices from certain bodies — It could deal blow to Apple and amplifies a self-reliance push
More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Insider, Reuters, RTÉ, PCMag, AppleInsider, The Guardian, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, WinBuzzer, Livemint, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, MacDailyNews, Pocket Gamer.biz, Supercharged, Forbes, MarketWatch, New York Times, NBC 7 San Diego, Barron's Online, iMore, The Register, Wccftech, ChinaTechNews.com, iThinkDifferent, PetaPixel, OSnews, CNBC, Cult of Mac, and MSPoweruser
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Forums: r/technology, r/China, and r/technews
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Source: at Gamescom in August, Nintendo demoed the Switch 2 running a souped up version of Breath of the Wild to developers; the device is expected in 2024 — Ahead of widely-expected launch next year. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — In Cologne last month …
More: Video Games Chronicle, Thurrott, Game Developer, Gizmodo, The Sun, Dexerto, PCMag, The Verge, PC Gamer, GameSpot, BGR, TheGamer, KitGuru, Kotaku, IGN, OnMSFT.com, Tom's Guide, Press Start, GSMArena.com, Gameranx, Metro, Notebookcheck, Wccftech, GamingBolt, GoNintendo, and Dot Esports
Forums: Hacker News, r/nintendo, r/NintendoSwitch, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/gaming
| Dylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com: |
Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for the open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5 — Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
More: Bruce Lawson's personal site. Threads: @jkottke. Mastodon: @davidroessli@mastodon.social, @mattmay@mstdn.social, @ourmaninjapan@mastodon.cloud, @rem@front-end.social, @markboulton@typo.social, @olivierlacan@ruby.social, @sjvn@mastodon.social, @lemay@mastodon.social, @triptych@social.yesterweb.org, @fraying@xoxo.zone, @redcrew@mstdn.social, @boagworld@mastodon.social, and @glightly@mastodon.social
X: @flyosity, @mholzschlag, @cackhanded, @antiheroine, @simplebits, @codepo8, @accessibleweb, @toddlibby, @brianalvey, @brucel, and @photomatt
LinkedIn: Michael Spellacy, Pete Gaughan, and Johnathan Williamson
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Lane Brown / Vulture: |
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
More: ScreenGeek, 9to5Mac, IGN, Dexerto, Gamereactor UK, The Wrap, SlashFilm, Screen Rant, IndieWire, and ComingSoon.net
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| CNBC: |
Riot, which mined ~$8.9M worth of bitcoin in August, says it earned $31.7M in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT that month to reduce its usage — - Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.
More: Riot Platforms, Inc., The Block, Blockworks, Decrypt, TechSpot, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, and Cryptopolitan
Mastodon: @wildebees@mastodon.social and @GraniteGeek@newsie.social
X: @riotplatforms, @bitcoinpierre, and @ohitsstuart
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/politics, r/centrist, r/conservativeterrorism, r/inthenews, r/energy, and r/texas
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Chrome to incorporate its Material You design language in the coming weeks, including refreshed icons and new color palettes — Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look. Google's widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material You design language …
More: The Keyword, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Neowin, Tom's Guide, OnMSFT.com, and Android Headlines
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer's account — Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
More: Microsoft Security …, Ars Technica, SC Media, Security Affairs, Ghacks, The Verge, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Help Net Security, Wired, Infosecurity, ITPro, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, ComputerWeekly.com, MSPoweruser, Neowin, The Register, SiliconANGLE, OSnews, iTnews, The Record, PCMag, SecurityWeek, CRN, CyberScoop, and Bloomberg
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LinkedIn: Vishal Amin, Kelli Andrews, Jeremy Dallman, and Vasu Jakkal
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/InfoSecNews
| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
An IMF and Financial Stability Board paper warns jurisdictions against blanket bans on crypto, recommending targeted restrictions and sound monetary policy — The global standard-setters also warned stablecoins adopted by multiple jurisdictions “may transmit volatility more abruptly” than other crypto.
More: fsb.org, Decrypt, Metaverse Post, Reuters, Finextra, CCN.com, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoSlate. X: @brian_laverdure
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin co-authors a paper on “Privacy Pools”, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing a full transaction history — - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin co-authored a research paper on a privacy protocol named Privacy Pools.
Source: SSRN. More: Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptonews, Metaverse Post, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Android Security Bulletin for September 2023 patches a privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Android 11-13 that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — The September 2023 Android security updates tackle 33 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug currently targeted in the wild.| Joe Coscarelli / New York Times: |
Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while also gunning for a Grammy.
More: Variety, Engadget, Gizmodo, Unite.AI, and nft now
X: @imghostwrit3r, @raptalksk, @parkermolloy, @popbase, and @joecoscarelli
| Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas — The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
More: FreightWaves, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, GeekWire, FreightWaves, Bloomberg, The Information, Fortune, and The Information
Threads: @vishvanands and @carnage4life
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Forums: Hacker News and Blind
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Certa, which offers a compliance, governance, and risk management service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total raised to “just over” $50M — Certa, a compliance, governance and risk management platform for enterprises, today announced that it raised $35 million …
More: FinSMEs and SiliconANGLE
| Walter Isaacson / TIME: |
An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over the dangers of AI, how he founded OpenAI and xAI, and more — At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial—intelligence researcher who had co-founded … | Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Norway's $1.4T oil fund, which owns ~1.5% of all listed companies, details its three concerns over AI: board responsibility, transparency, and risk management — Head of sovereign investor warns boards are ‘absolutely not on top’ of the issues surrounding the technology
More: Wccftech
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to drop some Studio ad controls, limiting creators' control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads, starting in November 2023 — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube … | Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America, describes the company's evolution from a gaming company to a broader entertainment company, including live events — For decades, Nintendo was synonymous with video games. Now in its second century, the Japanese company wants to be much more.| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A test of ChatGPT's ability to respond in underrepresented languages like Bengali and Kurdish found translation errors, fabricated words, and illogical answers — Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can't do basic information retrieval.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
In a novel move, Pinterest updates its content algorithm to surface diverse body types, powered by an AI system trained on 5B+ images of bodies of all sizes — Social media algorithms usually promote biases toward white, thin bodies. Pinterest is using machine learning to surface images of all shapes and sizes.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says its Copilot Copyright Commitment will defend customers of its AI products from copyright lawsuits if they use “guardrails and content filters” — The software giant also will pay related fines and settlements, so long as customers follow its rules.
More: Microsoft On the Issues
| Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt attributes angst over driverless cars to anti-robot bias, saying “anything that we do differently than humans is being sensationalized” — Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said in an interview with The Washington Post that the angst around driverless cars in San Francisco is overblown
X: @yoda
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
UNESCO report: overreliance on online learning during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered discussion on equitable, lower-tech options — Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
More: UNESCO, Financial Times, Coinspeaker, Metaverse Post, UNESCO, and Tech Xplore
| Zeke Faux / New York Magazine: |
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up details an April 2022 FTX conference in the Bahamas, where writer Michael Lewis lavished Sam Bankman-Fried with praise — Three years ago, nobody knew who you were. And now you're sitting on the cover of magazines. And you're a gazillionaire.
More: Decrypt and Financial Times
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI announces its first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6 in San Francisco, and plans to livestream a keynote presentation — OpenAI will host its first developer conference this fall, as the ChatGPT-maker looks to bolster interest in its products while facing growing competition …
More: OpenAI, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, Coinspeaker, WinBuzzer, Neowin, Cryptopolitan, Ghacks, San Francisco Business Journal, and TechCrunch
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