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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, Ars Technica, Washington Post, Bloomberg, NBC News, NBC Bay Area, Newser, Forbes, The Verge, Pixel Envy, and BleepingComputer
Threads: @tiffany.c.li. Mastodon: @bkastl@mastodon.social, @ricardoharvin@mstdn.social, @mattburgess@infosec.exchange, @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange, @ppatel@mstdn.social, @tiffanycli@mastodon.social, @lhn@mastodon.online, and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueAnon, r/IronFrontUSA, r/worldnews, r/Judaism, r/Jewish, r/technology, r/inthenews, r/NewsOfTheStupid, and Slashdot
| 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, Hacker News, and r/singularity
| Emma Fletcher / Federal Trade Commission: |
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud between January 2021-June 2023 said it started on social media, resulting in losses worth $2.7B — Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.
More: The Register, Federal Trade Commission, BleepingComputer, Federal Trade Commission, crypto.news, The Messenger, CBS News, PYMNTS.com, The Record, Daily Mail, ABC News, and Ventureburn
Mastodon: @SteveThompson@mastodon.social. X: @wsculley, @ftc, @scdca, @ftc, @catalinagoanta, and @swiftstories. Forums: Hacker News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release true AR glasses in 2025 and a cheaper Quest — Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 haven't even been released yet, but the two companies are already deep into work on follow-up products.| 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 …
More: The Indian Express, Gizchina, The Economic Times, Thurrott, and The Verge
| 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.
More: Android Authority, Droid Life, Gizchina, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Sam Lover, Android Police, and OSnews
Threads: @trevorcroker and @mattbirchler
X: @nehemoth and @franciegrace
Forums: r/Android and r/GooglePixel
| Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, which pioneered minicomputers after being founded in 1957 and was acquired by Compaq in 1998 — One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s. — Even though very few of the early players in technology still exist, we use their creations to this day.
More: OSnews. Mastodon: @hynek@mastodon.social. X: @hernandez_a, @earthboundfilms, @daniel_j_payne, @marctennant, @angusdav, @glennklockwood, @louismcdonald, @tuch2, and @mstewart__1. Forums: r/technology
| 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
More: The Messenger and The Decoder
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @karlauerbach@sfba.social, @fraying@xoxo.zone, @andrewvandam@mastodon.social, @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone, and @davemark@mastodon.social
X: @katienotopoulos, @emzorbit, @nadlermk, and @jaxalemany
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/inthenews, and r/politics
| 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.
More: Puck, TechCrunch, and The Information
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
The UK FCA plans to name firms violating its crypto promotion rules, which will be widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location — - Watchdog will add firms to warning list starting on Sunday — The UK's Financial Conduct Authority will move fast to name … | 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 … | Bloomberg: |
A look at SoftBank-owned PayPay, which has 60M+ users, two-thirds QR-code payment market share 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
X: @japantimes, @naveenathresh, and @leeminjeong83
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