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October 29, 2023, 2:45 PM
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The Citizen Lab:
Research details how vulnerabilities in signaling protocols used by mobile network operators for international roaming can be exploited to geolocate devices  —  Table of Contents  —  2. Geolocation Attacks Against Telecommunications Networks  —  4. Incentives Enabling Geolocation Attacks
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content”  —  Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works.  This will give chance to developers …
Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
As Cruise suspends all its driverless operations, a look at the lack of clear federal regulations and fragmented oversight governing self-driving cars in the US  —  The whiplash from approval to ban in just two months highlights the fragmented oversight governing the fledgling industry
The Guardian:
UK Minister for Policing Chris Philp encourages the police to double its use of retrospective facial recognition software by May 2024 to track down offenders  —  Policing minister Chris Philp suggests target of more than 200,000 searches over next six months
Washington Post:
A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as the hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes  —  The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.”  He has succeeded at only one of those goals.
New York Times:
AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content  —  Fakes related to the conflict have been limited and largely unconvincing, but their presence has people doubting real evidence.
Emily Parker / CoinDesk:
Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins, starting with a law that took effect in June 2023 and has terms to protect the assets underlying stablecoins  —  Japan's new law tries to address one of the biggest fears about major stablecoins: Do issuers really have the assets to back them?
David Pierce / The Verge:
Hands-on with Apple's Journal, an incredibly basic journaling app, with an interesting Moments page that uses the Suggestions API to prompt users to add entries  —  The Apple Journal app is so simple that, at first, it felt like I was missing something.  The whole app is just one screen …

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New York Times:
Sources: the White House directed FBI director Kash Patel to personally oversee the probe into NYT reporting about Air Force One, before subpoenas were issued

New York Times:
Sources: California is preparing to file a lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger as soon as this week, joined by NY, WA, CT, and possibly other states

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with veteran media reporter Peter Kafka on the unbundling of Comcast and NBCUniversal, Versant's future, YouTube, net neutrality, Hollywood's fate, and more

More News

Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Some artists who tried to use Meta's request form to delete their data from its AI training say the new system is broken; one calls the form a “fake PR stunt”
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
A profile of, and interview with, OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, who made a “superalignment” team to safely build and control superintelligent AI models

Earlier Picks

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Researchers earned $1M+ for 58 zero-day exploits targeting consumer products at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 and hacked a fully patched Samsung Galaxy S23 four times
Politico:
A US executive order, expected to be issued as soon as October 30, will require firms building powerful AI models to report how they plan to protect their tech
Financial Times:
SBF testifies that he only understood “pieces” of his companies' full financial state and was “very surprised” by FTX's $8B balance-sheet hole in October 2022
Emma Roth / The Verge:
X adds a $16/mo. Premium+ plan with no ads in For You or Following and the “largest reply boost”, and a $3/mo. Basic plan with a “small boost” but no checkmark
Associated Press:
Internet and phone services collapse in the Gaza Strip as Israel's military expands its ground operations, largely cutting off communications for 2.3M residents
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