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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.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release a cheaper Quest in 2024 and true AR glasses in 2025 — 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.
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, The Verge, Benzinga, Forbes, Wccftech, and The Apple Post
Forums: r/OculusQuest and r/apple
| 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 …
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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 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.
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| 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 …
More: OSnews. Mastodon: @hynek@mastodon.social. X: @hernandez_a, @earthboundfilms, @daniel_j_payne, @marctennant, @angusdav, @glennklockwood, @louismcdonald, @tuch2, and @mstewart__1
LinkedIn: Bob H., Didier Wenger, Andy Patrizio, Peter Lega, Victor Blake, Matt Kroll, Dhruva Krishnamurthy, Tim Hollingshead, Kevin Larson, Bill Charles Ellerton, Nari Kannan, Edwin Yeakel, and Gilbert West. Forums: r/technology
| 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.
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
| 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 …
More: The Messenger and The Decoder
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X: @katienotopoulos, @emzorbit, @nadlermk, and @jaxalemany
LinkedIn: Marie J. and Kate O'Neill
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/inthenews, and r/politics
| Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Stanford University School of Medicine Dean Dr. Lloyd Minor on generative AI in medicine, the privacy risks, responsibly deploying the tech, and more — The dean of Stanford University's medical school thinks artificial intelligence will transform the medicines you take, the care you get and the training of doctors
X: @carlquintanilla. LinkedIn: LinkedIn, Fei-Fei Li, Lloyd Minor, LinkedIn, Fei-Fei Li, and Lloyd Minor
| 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 …
More: Puck, TechCrunch, and The Information
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
The UK FCA plans to name crypto companies violating its financial promotions rules, 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 …
More: CryptoSlate, Bitcoinist.com, crypto.news, CoinGape, Bitcoin News, and Cryptopolitan. X: @emilyjnicolle
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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