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Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, a Sunbird-based app that lets Phone (2) users send iMessages to iPhone contacts, on November 17 — Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before — Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
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Threads: @wongmjane, @nothing, @danseifert, @danseifert, @carnage4life, @chrispirillo, @mishaal_rahman, @parkerortolani, @mishaal_rahman, @saltrif, and @parkerortolani
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Forums: r/technology, r/iphone, and Ars OpenForum
| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
To use iMessage via Nothing Chats, users must log in to their iCloud account, and iMessages will be sent via a virtual Mac mini, which may weaken data security — Nothing Chats will be exclusive to the Nothing Phone 2. — TL;DR — Nothing is launching a new messaging app called Nothing Chats on November 17.
More: The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Google, Notebookcheck, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, Dexerto, and Supercharged
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular — Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors. — Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates …
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| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first — Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure as part of a September plea deal with Sergei Makinin, the hacker behind the operation — The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure this week following a September plea deal with the hacker behind the operation.
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| Nicola Davis / The Guardian: |
A study found that AI-generated photos of faces, particularly white faces, were perceived as more real by survey participants than photos of actual people — Photographs were seen as less realistic than computer images but there was no difference with pictures of people of colour| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange and wallet service Blockchain.com raised a $110M Series E led by Kingsway, a source says at less than half of its $14B valuation in spring 2022 — - Prior investor Kingsway led the Series E funding round — Raise leaves valuation at less than half of prior $14 billion| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Epic v. Google: Sundar Pichai confirms Google paid Apple 36% of the search revenue generated on iPhones, saying the total payment “was well over $10B” in 2022 — Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, testified on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend his company against monopoly claims.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Three young hackers behind Mirai talk about building the DDoS botnet, losing control of their monster, their work for the FBI as part of a plea deal, and more — Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU lawmakers are on a tricky knife edge hammering out the AI Act's final shape, as France and Germany push for a regulatory carve-out for foundation models — Negotiations between European Union lawmakers tasked with reaching a compromise on a risk-based framework for regulating applications …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge rejects efforts by Alphabet, ByteDance, Meta, and Snap to dismiss hundreds of lawsuits accusing them of enticing and addicting children to their apps — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by major social media companies to dismiss nationwide litigation accusing …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Notion unveils Q&A, an AI assistant that answers questions using info from a user's files and apps, as part Notion's AI add-on for $8 to $10 per user per month — The first killer app of AI for businesses, it appears, is a simple thing: to be able to find information in the morass of files …
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Civitai, where users share AI models and AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, debuts a bounties feature and raised a $5.1M a16z-led seed — Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook …
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| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is pausing new ChatGPT Plus signups “for a bit” as “the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity” — OpenAI has paused new ChatGPT Plus signups due to overwhelming demand for new features introduced at recent DevDay conference.| Eyal Press / New Yorker: |
A look at some wrongful arrests in the US due to bad facial recognition matches, and how “automation bias” could lead police to ignore contradictory evidence — Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Unciphered, which helps recover cryptocurrency, finds a BitcoinJS flaw in some wallets made before 2016 and says that up to $1B of crypto is at risk of theft — A company that helps recover cryptocurrency discovered a software flaw putting as much as $1 billion at risk from hackers.
More: Unciphered, Unchained Crypto, Gizmodo, The Hill, PCMag, Watcher Guru, Web3 is Going Just Great, and Blockworks
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Khosla Ventures is raising a $500M seed fund, a $1.6B venture fund, and a $900M growth fund, larger than their $300M, $1B, and $550M predecessors, respectively — The fundraise is one of the largest completed by a VC firm this year, defying startup slump — Khosla Ventures is in the final stages … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
WhatsApp for Android's chat and media backups will count toward the Google Account storage limit for beta users as of December 2023, and for all users in 2024 — Google and WhatsApp today announced a change wherein WhatsApp chat and media backups on Android will “start counting toward …
More: Engadget, WhatsApp, Google, Benzinga, FE Tech Bytes, Business Insider, NewsBytes, WABetaInfo, Ghacks, MSPoweruser, SamMobile, Droid Life, Android Authority, and Android Police
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| CNBC: |
Airbnb acquires GamePlanner.AI, its first acquisition as a public company, to accelerate some of its AI projects; sources: deal is valued at just under $200M — - Airbnb has made its first acquisition as a public company, in a deal valued at just under $200 million, sources familiar with the deal told CNBC.| Reuters: |
Cruise says it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the US while it undergoes a full safety review and that it will hire an outside safety expert — General Motors' (GM.N) Cruise driverless car unit said on Tuesday it will pause all supervised and manual car trips in the U.S … Sponsor Posts
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