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November 11, 2023, 12:25 PM
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Andi Yu / ABC:
DP World Australia, the country's second largest port operator, shuts down after a cyber attack, impacting the movement of goods in and out of the country  —  Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article … Australia's second largest port operator has shut …
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand  —  The Humane AI pin has no screen, no apps, and a creepy in-your-face camera.  —  Not since Magic Leap has a “next-generation” …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A look at custom chatbots, or GPTs, which are tailored for specific tasks and represent an important step in OpenAI's strategy of “gradual iterative deployment”  —  The age of autonomous A.I. assistants could have huge implications.  —  You could think of the recent history of A.I. chatbots as having two distinct phases.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Maine's government says that MOVEit hackers may have accessed the personal information of ~1.3M individuals, which is close to the state's entire population  —  The State of Maine has announced that its systems were breached after threat actors exploited a vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer tool …
Steph Batalis / Foreign Policy:
Chatbots can lower the information barrier to help malicious actors build a bioweapon, making guardrails during chatbot development a good step for biosecurity  —  Artificial intelligence can help users engineer pathogens—but that's not the real danger.  —  Human extinction, mass unemployment …
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register:
LockBit leaks ~50GB of data that the ransomware gang claims to have stolen from Boeing in October, after the company apparently refused to pay the ransom demand  —  Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit  —  The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data …
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
A profile of Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeded Whitney Wolfe Herd and is charged with turning around a company whose shares have fallen ~80% since 2021  —  Turning round the fortunes of the dating app will be her biggest challenge yet  —  When Lidiane Jones moved from a poor neighbourhood …

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Washington Post:
Trump nominates Sarah B. Rogers, a State Department official, as chief executive of USAGM, after a judge ruled Kari Lake has been illegally running the agency

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed warns that it lacks the resources to fund its cash obligations over the next year and is exploring options, as it reports a Q4 loss of $26.8M

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney has sold out all its available commercial inventory for its Oscars telecast on Sunday; source: the event drew 18 returning sponsors and 24 new ones

More News

Rolling Stone:
SAG-AFTRA's deal would require studios to obtain consent before creating digital replicas of living and deceased actors, disclose their use, and pay to use them
Diana Britton / Wealth Management:
Arch, which provides operations and reporting services for private investments, raised a $20M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, taking its total funding to $25M+
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more
Aditya Kalra / Reuters:
India proposes broadcast and streaming rules that would set up content evaluation committees and let the government regulate any online creator or news platform
Scott Stein / CNET:
Hands-on with Apple's spatial videos: easy to record on an iPhone 15 Pro and viewing on a Vision Pro is an impressive experience with compellingly realistic 3D
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to file an EU DMA challenge, disputing the EU putting all of the App Store on the DMA list and arguing that the DMA doesn't cover iMessage

Earlier Picks

NBC News:
Sources: the FBI suspended briefings to social media companies about Russian, Iranian, and Chinese influence campaigns, due to the GOP's attacks on info sharing
Amanda Hoover / Wired:
Omegle shut down as part of a settlement with a user who sued the chat website company claiming its design enabled her to be sexually abused since age 11
Decrypt:
Justin Sun's crypto exchange Poloniex says hackers stole $126M+ worth of crypto assets and that the company is working with other exchanges to recover the funds
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says the Clop ransomware group is exploiting a zero-day in IT support tool SysAid in “limited” attacks to access corporate servers and deploy Clop
Michael Kan / PCMag:
Qualcomm ends its Iridium partnership to bring satellite connectivity to Android phones, started in January 2023, after low adoption by smartphone manufacturers
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle the US DOJ's claims that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over citizens and green card holders for some jobs
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