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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Hackers posted a 23andMe data sample on BreachForums, claiming that it has 1M data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews; it appears to lack raw genetic data  —  At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
Anthropic:
A research paper details how decomposing groups of neural network neurons into “interpretable features” may improve safety by enabling the monitoring of LLMs  —  Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules.  With each step of training …
Emma Fletcher / Federal Trade Commission:
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud from January 2021 to June 2023 said the contact started on social media, causing $2.7B in losses  —  Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones from 2016 to 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the past 12 months, up from 7.2M in 2019  —  Google Pixel is still a minor player in the global smartphone market, but the brand continues to move along.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Even though the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have the same Tensor G3 chip, features like Night Sight Video and enhanced Magic Eraser are exclusive to the Pixel 8 Pro  —  I can't believe Google finally did it.  I'm still in disbelief. … It's unheard of.  It's historic.
Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica:
A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, which was founded in 1957 to build small digital modules, pioneered minicomputers, and Compaq acquired in 1998  —  One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s.  —  Even though very few of the early players …
Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Alexa has been claiming that the US 2020 presidential election was stolen, citing unvetted Rumble and Substack sources; Amazon says the errors have been fixed  —  The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source …
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
Y Combinator hires Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for publicly criticizing Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics  —  Best known for his relentless public criticism of Google as a monopoly, longtime Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe has a new gig …
Reuters:
The US adds 42 companies from China and seven from Finland, Germany, India, Turkey, the UAE, and the UK to an export control list over supporting Russia's army  —  The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over their support …

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From Mediagazer

New York Times:
Sources: the White House directed FBI director Kash Patel to personally oversee the probe into NYT reporting about Air Force One, before subpoenas were issued

New York Times:
Sources: California is preparing to file a lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger as soon as this week, joined by NY, WA, CT, and possibly other states

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with veteran media reporter Peter Kafka on the unbundling of Comcast and NBCUniversal, Versant's future, YouTube, net neutrality, Hollywood's fate, and more

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Wall Street Journal:
Political advertisers have raised concerns about X's Community Notes after major brands like Apple, Samsung, and Uber had critical notes attached to their ads
Reuters:
Delhi police accuse Xiaomi, Vivo, and others of helping transfer funds illegally to news outlet NewsClick, which India accused of spreading Chinese propaganda

Earlier Picks

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and other companies say productivity spiked after they started using ChatGPT-like tools to answer prospective customers' RFPs
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Cloud software company Blackbaud agrees to pay $49.5M to settle an investigation by AGs from 49 US states into a May 2020 ransomware attack and data breach
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Source: Microsoft plans to unveil its first chip designed for data centers that train and run LLMs at its annual Ignite developer and IT conference in November
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Amazon updates its Luna cloud gaming service to let users buy individual games, starting with select Ubisoft titles; users must first link their Ubisoft account
Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams
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