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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Hackers posted an initial data sample from 23andMe on BreachForums earlier in the week, claiming that it had 1M data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews — At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
More: The Record, Washington Post, Forbes, NBC News, and Newser
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Forums: r/Judaism, r/Jewish, r/TrueAnon, r/IronFrontUSA, r/worldnews, and Slashdot
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
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LinkedIn: Breanna H., Caston Thomas, Corey Munson, and Martin Bally
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones between 2016 and 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the last 12 months — Google Pixel is still a minor player in the global smartphone market, but the brand continues to move along. As the Pixel 8 series launched this week … | 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.
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Forums: r/Android and r/GooglePixel
| Anthropic: |
A research paper details how decomposing groups of neurons in a neural network into interpretable “features” may improve safety by enabling monitoring of LLMs — Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training …
More: Transformer Circuits Thread and Not Boring by Packy McCormick
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Y Combinator hires Yelp policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for his public criticism of 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: heading up policy efforts for Y Combinator.
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| Reuters: |
The US adds 42 tech companies from China and seven companies from India, UK, and other countries to an export control list over their support for Russian army — The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over their support … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Amazon's Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen citing sources from Rumble and Substack; Amazon says the errors were 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 — foreshadowing a new information battleground
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X: @katienotopoulos, @nadlermk, @jaxalemany, and @emzorbit
Forums: r/technology, r/inthenews, and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
A look at SoftBank-owned PayPay, which holds a two-thirds share of the QR-code payments market in Japan and could be next in the conglomerate's IPO pipeline — - Firm chases gross merchant value growth of over 30% this year — PayPay seen to be next in SoftBank's arsenal of possible IPOs| Reuters: |
The Delhi police accuse Xiaomi, Vivo, and others of helping transfer funds illegally to news outlet NewsClick, which is accused of spreading Chinese propaganda — Indian police have formally accused Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi Corp and Vivo Mobile of helping transfer funds illegally …
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X: @mnshap, @cryptic_miind, @svaradarajan, @pun_starr, @arpanc_, @jairam_ramesh, @vijaita, @vijaita, @t_d_h_nair, @officialsauravd, @sherbir, @pun_starr, @vijaita, @sritara, and @baxiabhishek. Forums: r/worldnews
| 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 — Major brands including Apple and Samsung have had critical notes attached to ads. Political advertisers have raised concerns about the tool heading into campaign season.
Threads: @carnage4life. X: @reidjjackson, @aerocles, @thefutureparty, @megancgraham, @hoofnagle, @itsmanibro, @dystopiabreaker, @prestonjbyrne, @jordanjhamel, @nic__carter, and @micsolana
| CNBC: |
Several users on Seller Central, Amazon's forum for merchants, welcomed the FTC's lawsuit against the company, while others remain skeptical about its outcome — - Amazon's massive third-party seller base anxiously anticipated the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust complaint, which was years in the making.
More: Tech Xplore
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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