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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's recent executive promotions; sources: a sub-$2,500 Vision Pro won't 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 …
More: Supercharged, 9to5Mac, The Verge, MacOTAKARA, PCMag, MacRumors, The Verge, Forbes, MacRumors, Wccftech, Engadget, Neowin, PhoneArena, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, UploadVR, AppleInsider, Supercharged, iMore, The Apple Post, AppleInsider, Wccftech, Wccftech, AppleInsider, and AppleInsider
X: @markgurman, @caro_milanesi, @markgurman, @heaney555, and @sdw
Forums: r/technology, r/VisionPro, r/ipad, r/ipadmini, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How social media is inducing an Israel-Hamas fog of war surpassing previous Gaza clashes, shaping how panicked citizens and a global public view the conflict — 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.
More: CNN. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @Zeb_Larson@zirk.us, and @katestarbird@mstdn.social
X: @lizzadwoskin, @colincrowell, @digiphile, @kareemrifai, and @shayan86
LinkedIn: Eric Feinberg, Joe Plenzler, and Colin Crowell
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Some AI image detecting tools 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 …
More: PCMag and Forbes
X: @ourielohayon, @lessin, @iethics, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, and @emanuelmaiberg
LinkedIn: Hany Farid, Christopher Rice, Daniel Tunkelang, Joseph Cox, and B.J. Smith
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Australia says it fined X ~$384K and warned Google after they failed to give adequate info on their efforts to fight CSAM despite a law requiring the disclosure — The service formerly known as Twitter told Australian regulators that its automated detection of abusive material had declined after Elon Musk bought it.
More: CNBC, Reuters, iTnews, The Daily Beast, Australian Financial Review, and The Verge
Threads: @lorakolodny and @renee.diresta
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC founder Morris Chang says the company expects competition from Intel and others, and Japan and Singapore have the best chance of winning in the chip race — Founder adds Japan and Singapore are well-positioned to win as industry evolves — TSMC founder Morris Chang attends a sports day event in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Oct. 14.| Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: |
How Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex has become a major money laundering channel for cybercriminals and terror groups like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad — Garantex's international pipeline helps defy Treasury sanctions by channeling rubles to crypto to dollars. Customers line up with bags of cash.
More: Bloomberg. Mastodon: @counternotions@mastodon …, @hanse_mina@nafo.uk, and @KimPerales@toad.social. Forums: r/economy
| Financial Times: |
How Brad Smith, who became Microsoft's top legal officer in 2002, used a legal, policy, and influence machine costing $1B+ per year to close the Activision deal — Company's top legal officer has honed diplomatic skills to recast the US tech giant's reputation
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. LinkedIn: Olivia Heslinga, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Aaron McLoughlin, Arjun Neil Alim, and Josh Malone
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Gizchina, Gameranx, Reuters, The Verge, Ubisoft, BBC, ComingSoon.net, Neowin, and Eurogamer.net
X: @charlieintel and @tomwarren
| 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 its app has ~1M users — The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software. And its strategy is working.
More: MacStories. Mastodon: @Bodling@deacon.social. X: @kepano, @chrisalbon, @choldgraf, @mjpost, @generativist, @kepano, @vivanvatsa, @spikedoanz, @kepano, @omeruzvn, @twofifteenam, @harrymccracken, @nickmilo, @moderndosh, and @fastcotech
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Researchers find that a modest amount of fine-tuning can bypass safety efforts aiming 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 …
More: arXiv.org, MarkTechPost, VentureBeat, Forbes, and SiliconANGLE
LinkedIn: Daniel Tunkelang and Pamal Sharma
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ Hotstar reclaims the global on-demand video streaming record with 35M concurrent viewers of the India-Pakistan ICC Cricket World Cup match on October 14 — In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. A high-profile match between neighbors India and Pakistan delivered …
More: The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Moneycontrol, and What's On Disney Plus
LinkedIn: Hassan A., Mukund Acharya, Saunak Ghosh, Lalith Srinivas, Aaron LaBerge, and Abhijit Karode
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
GPT-4V, which lets users upload images as part of conversations with GPT-4, enables new vectors 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.
More: The Decoder. Mastodon: @north_easton@mastodon.social and @xris@ecoevo.social
| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
DappRadar: blockchain gaming projects have raised ~$600M in Q3 2023, down 38% QoQ, and $2.3B so far in 2023, which is only 30% of what was raised in all of 2022 — While the gaming industry continues to be plagued by mass layoffs, crypto gaming is still seeing many millions invested each quarter.
Source: DappRadar. More: Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, The Daily Hodl, and crypto.news
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