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| Benedict Evans / Financial Times: |
AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled after a failed coup at OpenAI, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent — Failed coups, as seen at OpenAI, often accelerate the thing that they were trying to prevent — Over the past week, OpenAI's board went through four CEOs in five days.
More: Citation Needed, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Financial Times, and Business Today
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Forums: r/neoliberal and Beehaw
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those — Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.
More: Business Insider, Engadget, Mashable, NewsBytes, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and New York Post
X: @garymarcus, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @jason_kint
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money: |
A look at Binance and CZ's “Bond villain” compliance strategy and how their settlements will allow the US to deflate Binance while minimizing collateral damage — James Bond films have a certain formula to them. It is more interesting when seen from the perspective of the villain.
More: Financial Times and Cryptopolitan
Threads: @carnage4life and @carnage4life
X: @leomschwartz, @patio11, @garrytan, @matthew_d_green, @matthew_d_green, @smdiehl, @cryptadamist, @greenskeeperam, @crypto_prothean, and @patio11
Forums: Hacker News and r/Buttcoin
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally — A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales …
More: Adobe for Business, PCMag, Business Insider, CNBC, The Economic Times, The Information, PhoneArena, New York Post, Bloomberg, The Messenger, International Business Times, and diginomica
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| New York Times: |
Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M — Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or may do so, after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
More: Engadget, The Messenger, New York Post, CoinGape, Mashable, PCMag, Moneycontrol, The Hill, Gizchina, Cryptopolitan, and The Information
Threads: @vvrkshop.art, @adhutch26, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @profgalloway, @tobybartlett, @datadrivenmd, @drewharwell, and @karaswisher. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
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Forums: r/inthenews, r/TheLib, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more — The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network …
Mastodon: @malwarejake@infosec.exchange and @dyckron@mstdn.ca
Forums: r/chipdesign, r/worldnews, r/hacking, r/gadgets, r/Netherlands, r/technology, r/technews, and r/ADVChina
| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
A look at Replicator, a Pentagon initiative expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is reliable enough to deploy, including on weaponized systems — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones …
More: Cryptopolitan, Politico, and The Messenger
LinkedIn: Patrick Biltgen and Francis Syms
Forums: r/singularity and r/Futurology
| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
Russia's interior ministry adds Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone to its wanted list, according to state-owned news agency TASS — The reason Andy Stone was added to the list was not indicated, according to the Russian news agency. — Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesperson …
More: Reuters, Associated Press, Livemint, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, RTHK, and India Today
| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000 — Someone accidentally paid over $3 million in fees to send $2 million in BTC. — A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly made a costly mistake …
More: Blockchain.com, Web3 is Going Just Great, Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, New.blicio.us, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, The Block, CryptoPotato, The Crypto Basic, and NullTX
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @whale_alert, @whalewire, @udiwertheimer, @richardheartwin, @pierre_crypt0, and @0xjaypeg
| Mark Gimein / The Atlantic: |
As safety demands strip Llama 2, ChatGPT, and others of anything remotely controversial, some programmers are building uncensored LLMs without safety guardrails — A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much. Bring on the uncensored models.
Threads: @tnlnyc. Mastodon: @MikeElgan@mastodon.social. X: @chumpchanger, @theatlantic, @kedkorte, @chumpchanger, and @erhartford. LinkedIn: Haixun Wang. Forums: Hacker News
| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Q&A with Slack CTO Cal Henderson on how the pandemic changed Slack and workplace habits, acquisition by Salesforce, generative AI, India market, and more — The pandemic accelerated changes that were already happening in the workplace and took us forward five or 10 years in terms of workplace habits …
X: @chandrarsrikant and @chandrarsrikant
| Kevin O'Reilly / iFixit News: |
A side-by-side teardown of the Steam Deck OLED and Lenovo Legion Go: both are designed to be repaired by users; Steam Deck OLED scores 9/10 and Legion Go 7/10 — The holiday gaming season has brought us two cutting-edge handheld gaming devices. In one corner, we have the upstart Legion Go …
More: Digital Trends, XDA Developers, SlashGear, Windows Central, Engadget, iFixit on YouTube, Laptop Mag, and PC Gamer. X: @ifixit
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Filing: Nvidia says regulators in the EU and China requested information about its sale of GPUs and how it allocates their supply — Regulators in Europe and China have questioned Nvidia about how it allocates its supply of highly sought-after chips used for running AI software, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
| Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: |
More: SamMobile and TweakTown
X: @extremetechfund, @rajaxg, @amasad, @hassankhan, and @dnystedt
Forums: r/hardware, r/nvidia, and Slashdot
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