Techmeme: Google's Jigsaw unit and Tech Against Terrorism launch Altitude, a free tool that helps smaller platforms detect and remove terrorist content on their networks (David Gilbert/Wired)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

November 12, 2023, 1:00 PM

Top News

Financial Times:

An in-depth look at a covert Russian operation to get dual-use specialist microchips, which are protected by EU export controls, into the hands of the state — A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state

X: @maxseddon, @maxseddon, @maxseddon, @maxseddon, @elinaribakova, @elinaribakova, @maxseddon, @xtophercook, @xtophercook, and @alenapopova

LinkedIn: Raimonds Bricis and Leen Paape

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 — Australia's second largest port operator has shut down because of a cyber security incident, impacting the movement of goods in and out of the country.

More: Reuters, Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomberg, The Verge, The Independent, iTnews, Bloomberg, Australian Financial Review, Reuters, DeviceSecurity.io, The National, Cyber Daily, and Bloomberg

Mastodon: @Peternimmo@mastodon.scot. X: @aucyberseccoord, @clareoneilmp, @catherinekingmp, @johnhultquist, @aucyberseccoord, @truthgodfather, and @cmroberson06

LinkedIn: Mickey Perre, Scott Carson, and Mare Straetmans

Forums: r/perth, r/cybersecurity, r/friendlyjordies, r/australian, and r/australia

David Gilbert / Wired:

Experts say terrorist groups are using generative AI tools to evade the hashing algorithms used by tech companies to automatically remove extremist content — Experts are finding thousands of examples of AI-created content every week that could allow terrorist groups and other violent extremists to bypass automated detection systems.

More: Tech Against Terrorism. X: @4maciejko, @andywalters, @daithaigilbert, @daithaigilbert, @techvsterrorism, @garymarcus, @mariehjohnson, @bradsmi, @techvsterrorism, and @tara_writer

Shanti Das / The Guardian:

Investigation: Biobank, the UK's biomedical research database, shared sensitive health data of ~500K volunteers with insurance companies despite pledging not to — Observer investigation reveals UK Biobank opened its biomedical database to insurance firms despite pledge it would not do so

Mastodon: @StevenFrench@writing.exchange and @JackTheCat@mastodon.scot

X: @drstevetaylor, @karamballes, @winchwoodie, @sewsow1, @mikebutcher, @jessrmorley, @premnsikka, @_danibeck, @shanti_das, @pwgtennant, @helenrsalisbury, @paullewismoney, and @doctor_oxford

LinkedIn: Dr Chris Lewington FIMA FRSA and John Greally

Forums: r/unitedkingdom and r/privacy

Jack Ewing / New York Times:

How Lukasz Krupski, a Tesla whistleblower in Norway, leaked personnel records and Autopilot data that caught the attention of regulators in several countries — An employee who was fired after expressing safety concerns leaked personnel records and sensitive data about driver-assistance software.

Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @pallenberg@mastodon.social

X: @mrstad, @stephaniemflynn, @michellesdude, and @thefawcette. Forums: r/RealTesla

Wes Davis / The Verge:

Many Threads users report that they now have the ability to opt out of having their posts shown on Instagram and Facebook — Many Threads users are now saying they have the ability to opt out of having their posts shown on Instagram and Facebook. To keep Threads posts from showing up Meta's …

More: 9to5Mac and PCMag

Threads: @kiriappeee, @dryllyrd, and @datadrivenmd

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.

Cloudflare:

Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.

Zoho:

Now supported: Moving your Docusign templates to Zoho Sign without setting them up from scratch — Are you switching from Docusign to Zoho Sign? Is the thought of losing all your custom templates and having to rebuild them from scratch worrying you?

IDrive:

IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:

Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel

Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.

Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.

Access:

Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash

A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.

Subscribe to Access.

Uncapped with Jack Altman:

Brian Singerman from GPx

Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.

Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.

Training Data:

Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine's Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph

Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.

Subscribe to Training Data.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.

Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:00 PM ET, November 12, 2023.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

Netflix renews its initial podcast slate, brings in established shows like The Pivot Podcast, and adds new shows from Katt Williams, Stephanie Soo, and more

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:

Bill Simmons is facing backlash for using OpenAI's ChatGPT to simulate film reviews from the late critic Roger Ebert on his podcast; OpenAI runs ads on the show

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

Politico plans to launch a global app, offering personalized content from all of its free and paywalled journalism from the US and Europe, by the end of 2026

Upcoming Tech Events

Earnings: AVGO, SNOW, HPE

Sep 2

Abstract by Convex REGISTER NOW

Y Combinator Summer 2026 Demo Day

Snap "See for Yourself" SPECS Launch media event

Los Angeles

Sep 22-24

Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit + "When Two Changes the Game" media event

FUSION '26 by Atomicwork: hear from Vinod Khosla, Aaron Levie and leaders from Okta, Meta, OpenAI REGISTER

Runway SF AI Summit REGISTER NOW

Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference REGISTER NOW

San Francisco

Oct 22

Visual Intelligence Summit by Roboflow REGISTER NOW

New York Times DealBook Summit

More News

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

London-based Monument, a digital bank focused on mass affluent customers in the UK, raised a $50M Series B, a source says at a £150M+ pre-money valuation

More: Tech.eu, BusinessCloud, FinTech Futures, Financial IT, FinSMEs, and AltFi

X: @markkleinmansky. LinkedIn: Wasim Khouri, Ian Rand, and Monument

Steph Batalis / Foreign Policy:

Chatbots can lower the information barrier to help malicious actors build a bioweapon, making chatbot development guardrails a good first step for biosecurity

More: CoinStats. Threads: @carnage4life. X: @clementdelangue, @kevinallison, and @foreignpolicy

LinkedIn: Scott C. Lemon, Adam Russell, Krystal Jackson, and Steph Batalis

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Humane's Ai Pin is a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps seems extremely limiting, and $699 is too high compared to other wearables

More: Mashable, Hackaday, Humane, Supercharged, Insider, ExtremeTech, GeekWire, Android Headlines, Pocketnow, and Digital Trends

Threads: @seyitaylor, @ericflo, @alexanderbellgram, @kbode, @ryancoleman, @prakashm14, @neil.cybart, @katienotopoulos, @craiggrannell, @jason_tiernan, @jbruck, @chris, @jseibert, @crumbler, @seyitaylor, and @donaldrichard

Mastodon: @counternotions@mastodon … and @arstechnica@mastodon.social

X: @growing_daniel, @artemr, @maxwinebach, @chih98, @rsgnl, @chrisjbakke, @varunramg, @pungme, @thestalwart, @dylanmcd8, @timokissel, @arstechnica, @peggyktc, @ronamadeo, @esthercrawford, @steventey, and @buccocapital

LinkedIn: John Miner, Marc Calamia, Scott C. Lemon, and Timo Kissel. Forums: Ars OpenForum

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:

A profile of Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeds Whitney Wolfe Herd and is charged with turning around a company whose stock is down ~80% since its 2021 IPO

More: BBC and Insider

Reuters:

EC official: X had just 2,294 EU content moderators, versus 16,974 at YouTube and 6,125 at TikTok, according to reports submitted by the companies in September

More: Gizchina, TechCrunch, and RTHK. X: @xavierdegraux

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”

More: Decrypt, ChinaTechNews.com, Financial Times, and Insider

Threads: @carnage4life. X: @simonw, @saranormous, @rachel_l_woods, @simonw, @sama, @goodside, @treyratcliff, @angelataptos, @tomchapin, @tunguz, @gregkamradt, @random_walker, @simonw, @emollick, @jeffjarvis, @peteskomoroch, and @jkronand

LinkedIn: Jorge Ortega, Martin Waxman, MCM, APR, Brad Dean, Andrew Mawson, Gregory North, Garth Sheriff, Franky Arriola, Randy B., Daniel Rezac, M.Ed., William Lee, and Janette Roush

Earlier Picks

Rolling Stone:

SAG-AFTRA's deal would require studios to get consent before making digital replicas of living and deceased actors, disclose their use, and pay actors for them

More: CNN, The Verge, Bloomberg, Tech Xplore, Deadline, Associated Press, Deadline, The Wrap, KCAL News on YouTube, Screen, Variety, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Wired

X: @vkhosla, @synopsi, @amyklobuchar, @awards_watch, @problemsthots, @discussingfilm, @kayla__lmao, @variety, and @donquixote616. Forums: Slashdot