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October 15, 2023, 2:05 PM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's recent executive promotions; sources: a cheaper Vision Pro may not have EyeSight and M3-based MacBook Pros could come in early or spring 2024  —  Still, it's losing a top hardware executive.  Also: There are fresh details on efforts to lower the price of the Vision Pro …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Some AI image detectors are labeling real photographs from the Israel-Hamas war as fake, creating what an expert calls a “second level of disinformation”  —  Content warning: This story contains graphic images of violence.  —  A free AI image detector that's been covered …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
How social media is inducing a fog of war surpassing previous clashes between Israel and Hamas, shaping the views of panicked citizens and a global public  —  The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult to assess what is real.
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
The US FTC says it remains focused on its appeal opposing Microsoft's acquisition of Activision and will “assess” the company's cloud gaming deal with Ubisoft
Tom Warren / The Verge:
A look at Microsoft's deal with Ubisoft, which now gets the cloud gaming rights for Call of Duty and current Activision games outside of the EU for 15 years
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT-4V, the new mode of GPT-4 that lets users upload images as part of conversations, allows for prompt injection attacks by following instructions in images  —  GPT4-V is the new mode of GPT-4 that allows you to upload images as part of your conversations.  It's absolutely brilliant.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, which was exploited to launch record-setting DDoS attacks, requires patching every web server before the problem can be eradicated  —  Dubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires making patches available for virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Researchers find that a modest amount of fine-tuning can undo safety efforts that aim to prevent LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content  —  OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with ‘20 cents’ of API tickling  —  The “guardrails” created to prevent large language models …
Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
DappRadar: blockchain gaming projects raised $600M in Q3 2023, down 38% YoY, and $2.3B so far in 2023, which is only 30% of what was raised for all of 2022  —  While the gaming industry continues to be plagued by mass layoffs, crypto gaming is still seeing many millions invested each quarter.
Jared Newman / Fast Company:
A look at Obsidian, an indie, Electron-based note-taking app that has developed a cult following on Discord and Reddit; Obsidian estimates that it has ~1M users  —  The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software.  And its strategy is working.

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James Faris / Business Insider:
Sources: Disney is discussing a potential free tier for Disney+; product and tech chief Adam Smith discussed the initiative at a town hall but gave no timeline

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
USA Today CEO Mike Reed says the company is prepared to opt out of Google Search in the next 6 to 12 months because it has no licensing agreement with Google

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
An RIAA-led coalition representing labels and artists proposes two tags for AI content: one for entirely AI-generated songs and another for “AI-assisted” tracks

More News

Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
How Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy is pushing policymakers to focus on AI's long-term risks by funding salaries of staff in Congress and federal agencies
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
How influencers played a key role in boosting the popularity of Riot Game's Valorant among Gen Z gamers; Riot says 70% of Valorant players are Generation Z

Earlier Picks

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US NLRB alleges that X illegally fired an employee in November 2022 in retaliation for her posts challenging the company's RTO policy
New York Times:
As China-linked Bitcoin mines open across the US, officials raise national security concerns, like about a Wyoming mine that is close to a nuclear missile base
Jo Marchant / Nature:
A student wins a contest to read the text inside a carbonized Roman scroll, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79, using an ML algorithm
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Nvidia plans to raise the price of its GeForce Now cloud gaming service in Canada and some European countries in November, citing “increased operational costs”
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