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| Walter Isaacson / CNBC: |
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips — The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12.
More: Axios and UPROXX
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LinkedIn: Salem Bagami, Tim Schnurr, and Florian Minderop
Forums: r/TSLA, r/teslamotors, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies' moderation of COVID-19 posts — The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General's office's contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms' content decisions
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, and Beehaw
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google says North Korea-backed hackers are again targeting security researchers via a zero-day exploit; this still unfixed flaw is in a popular software package — Google researchers say currently unfixed vulnerability affects a popular software package. — North Korea-backed hackers …
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LinkedIn: Charles Durant and Gianluca Varisco
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: |
Dennis Austin, the principal developer of PowerPoint who led development of the presentation software until he retired in 1996, died on September 1 aged 76 — The program was the digital successor of the overhead projector. It became one of the most ubiquitous and scorned programs of modern office life.
More: The Verge, Boing Boing, Thurrott, and Neowin
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| Hillel Italie / Associated Press: |
Amazon starts requiring writers in its e-book program to disclose using AI-generated content in their books, after complaints from the Authors Guild and others — After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through …
More: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, The Authors Guild, PCMag, and Cryptopolitan
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| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
How privacy campaigners and tech executives, like Signal president Meredith Whittaker, teamed up to challenge the UK's Online Safety Bill encryption crackdown — LONDON — Deep in the recesses of Britain's Hogwarts-like houses of parliament, a Facebook lobbyist-turned-lord is trying to foment a rebellion.| Bloomberg: |
An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software — - Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision
More: Ars Technica, Federal Trade Commission, The Verge, PCMag, CNBC, Federal Trade Commission, The Messenger, MarketWatch, and Reuters
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes — Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things.| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
X sues California over AB 587, arguing the law forcing social networks to detail their moderation interferes with X's constitutionally protected editorial calls — Elon Musk's X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: US chipmakers and tech firms, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Google, plan to attend a business meeting in Vietnam as Biden visits to boost ties — Top U.S. semiconductors and digital companies including Intel, GlobalFoundries and Google are expected to attend a business meeting …
More: Bloomberg, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, and New York Times
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Some Wyze security camera owners report that they were briefly able to see feeds from cameras they didn't own or recognize; Wyze blames “a web caching issue” — Some Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren't theirs … | Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Rene Haas, who Arm appointed as CEO in February 2022 after Nvidia's Arm acquisition was scrapped and SoftBank shared plans to pursue an IPO instead — The American CEO of Arm, a British company owned by a Japanese tech conglomerate, must juggle the needs of chip-making customers who are battling each other
X: @wsj
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