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Sources: Nvidia has begun designing ARM CPUs for Windows PCs, and AMD also plans to build ARM chips; source: Nvidia and AMD could start selling them in 2025 — Nvidia (NVDA.O) dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel's longtime stronghold of personal computers.
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| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers' tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data — The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
1Password detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance for managing employee-facing apps, and “found no compromise of user data or other sensitive systems” — 1Password CTO says investigation found no compromise of user data or sensitive systems.
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| NBC News: |
The White House designates 31 communities across the US as regional Tech Hubs that can compete for $40M to $75M each in grants, under the CHIPS and Science Act — The hubs are located in 32 states and Puerto Rico and will be able to compete for $40 million to $75 million each in grants.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta is “listening to feedback” after some users noticed the company is cross-posting Threads posts to users' Facebook feeds without offering an opt-out option — The company said it's “listening to feedback” about the feature. — Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out passkey support in its iOS app and the web, letting users log in via their devices' biometrics, and says support for Android is “coming soon” — Amazon's rolling out passkey support for its online site and mobile shopping apps.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Matter hits version 1.2, adding support for robot vacuums, refrigerators, washing machines, dishwashers, smoke and CO alarms, air quality sensors, and more — One year in, and Matter is adding support for fridges, robot vacuums, smoke alarms, and more. It's a major step toward a complete smart home …
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Streaming services, including Hulu, Peacock, and Max, are increasingly showing “pause ads”, which appear a few seconds after a viewer pauses the programming — Time for a different sort of commercial break. — Any subscriber to the ad-supported version of Hulu is bound …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Instagram is testing a toggle in its app that lets users only see posts from Meta Verified subscribers, as “a way for businesses and creators to get discovered” — Instagram is testing a toggle that lets you only see posts from Meta Verified users, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Monday.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at YouTube's negotiations with record labels over an AI tool that lets creators perform using major musicians' voices, a pivotal moment for AI in music — Negotiations between the video site and record labels could be a key moment in the spread of AI technology.| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
MangoBoost, which develops data processing units for data centers, raised a $55M Series A, sources say at a ~$300M valuation, bringing its total funding to $65M — The central processing unit (CPU) and the graphics processing unit (GPU) handle different types of data.
LinkedIn: Jangwoo Kim
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says big-money deals with top livestreaming gamers is not a “sustainable business”; sources: YouTube is also backing away from such deals — Leaders pull back from seven-, eight-figure contracts while upstart Kick forges ahead in some cases.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok tests letting users upload 15-minute videos, after raising its maximum video limit to 10 minutes in February 2022, to attract longer-form video creators — TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 15 minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.| Bloomberg: |
Byju's CFO Ajay Goel resigns after six months as the edtech delays its FY 2022 earnings; Byju's President of Finance Nitin Golani takes over on October 30 — - Goel will return to Vedanta after six months as Byju's CFO — Byju's appoints Nitin Golani as India chief finance officer
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Hands-on with DALL-E 3: suggests more detailed prompts, restrictive, denies art requests in the style of living artists, and shows how quickly AI is improving — To understand how quickly AI is improving, forget ChatGPT — use an image generator — Earlier this month … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
PimEyes, a paid facial recognition service, blocks searches of children's faces via age detection AI to identify photos of minors, as part of a “no harm policy” — The change came in response to worries that the service could be used nefariously by a stranger.| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Google proposes IP Protection for Chrome, an opt-in privacy feature that masks IP addresses via proxy servers for “qualifying traffic”, to roll out in stages — Google is getting ready to test a new “IP Protection” feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy …
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| Kim Na-young / Yonhap News Agency: |
South Korea-based Naver signs a 2024 to 2029 deal, sources say for $100M+, with Saudi Arabia to build digital twins of Riyadh, Medina, Jeddah, Dammam, and Mecca — South Korean tech giant Naver Corp. said Tuesday it has struck a deal with the Saudi Arabian government to create a digital twin platform … | Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Parity Technologies, the developer of Polkadot, which helps different blockchains communicate with each other, is laying off ~100 staff, or 30% of its employees — - Parity Technologies will cut a total of about 100 employees — Blockchain infrastructure firm will focus on technology
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Databricks plans to acquire data startup Arcion, which has raised $18M+, for $100M, after raising $500M in September and acquiring MosaicML for $1.3B in June — - Databricks agreed to acquire Arcion, an enterprise data company, for $100 million on Monday, including incentives …
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| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix's stock has surged 67% in 2023 due to its Nvidia deal, while rival Samsung's stock is up 24%, on track to underperform SK Hynix by the most in a decade — - SK Hynix has jumped 67% this year on HBM chip; Samsung up 24% — Samsung needs big client like Nvidia, good yields to catch up
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