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September 20, 2023, 5:55 AM

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The Verge:
Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations  —  / ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Ed Nightingale / Eurogamer.net:
Mariam Sunny / Reuters:
Neuralink opens enrollment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients, which is expected to take about six years to complete  —  Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta expands its Meta Verified program to businesses on Facebook and Instagram in select geographies, starting at $21.99 per month per page on either service  —  Meta announced today that it is expanding Meta Verified to businesses after first launching it for creators in March.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days  —  Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …
Richard Nieva / Forbes:
An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his decision to exit the board, a reluctance to go public, and more  —  The grocery delivery giant's founder and former CEO speaks exclusively to Forbes about his decision to exit the board …
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches the Red Teaming Network, a contracted group of experts to help inform the company's AI model risk assessment and mitigation strategies  —  In its ongoing effort to make its AI systems more robust, OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Red Teaming Network, a contracted group …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
The Linux Foundation launches the Unified Acceleration Foundation to create an open standard for accelerator programming, an evolution of the oneAPI initiative  —  At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max review: USB-C, lighter, nicer to hold, a useful Action Button, and camera improvements, but no 5x telephoto on the smaller Pro  —  Apple didn't choose the USB-C life, but boy are we glad it got here anyway. … There are very few surprises from new smartphones these days.
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Bard's “Google it” feature adds the ability to “double check” answers by highlighting phrases with supporting or contradicting information found by Search  —  Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?  —  Today let's talk about an advance in Bard …
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Ehren Kret / Signal:
Signal announces PQXDH, a new cryptographic specification meant as a first step to advance quantum resistance for the Signal Protocol  —  The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world.
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US sees no evidence that China-based SMIC can make the 7nm Kirin 9000s chips in the Huawei Mate 60 Pro “at scale”  —  - Raimondo says she was ‘upset’ at phone release during visit  — US probing new chip, which raised questions on export limits
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