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Pharmacy chain Rite Aid must stop using facial recognition for five years as part of a settlement with the US FTC, which says the tech falsely flagged customers — - FTC says chain's surveillance system falsely flagged customers — Bankrupt pharmacy chain will stop using system, delete images
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a MITM attack on SSH that can break the integrity of the protocol, the first “practical attack of its kind”; fixes face compatibility issues — Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels.
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| Nickolas Diaz / Android Central: |
Samsung adds the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 to its Self-Repair program, the first foldable devices, and expands the program to 30 more countries in Europe — Its latest smartphone series and laptop join in, too. — What you need to know — Samsung has expanded coverage of its Self-Repair program …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Researchers say AI robot CyberRunner outmaneuvers humans in the maze game Labyrinth, in a breakthrough for AI beating humans at direct physical applications — - Robot learned in record time to guide a ball through a maze — The AI robot used two knobs to manipulate playing surface
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Copilot can now compose songs, including lyrics, instruments, and voices, from a sentence, due to a new integration with generative AI music app Suno — Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with gen AI music app Suno.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol: a global law enforcement operation led by South Korea seized $300M and led to the arrest of 3,500 cybercrime suspects between July and December 2023 — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation HAECHI IV’ has led to the arrest of 3,500 suspects …
More: INTERPOL, Infosecurity, Nairametrics, The Hacker News, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, The Record, and Cybernews.com
| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: AWS plans to overhaul its 60K-person sales team and aims to increase the share of Fortune 1,000 companies spending $10M+/year from less than 20% to 80% — Matt Garman, head of sales at Amazon Web Services, plans to reorganize his more than 60,000-person team to address problems …
More: ComputerWeekly.com and SiliconANGLE
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
HughesNet debuts a $110/month 100Mbps satellite internet plan, double its previous top speed; Starlink offers 220Mbps, but US Ookla data shows many get ~70Mbps — HughesNet's speed boost comes courtesy of the recently launched Jupiter 3 satellite, which is designed to serve customers in the Americas.
More: Cord Cutters News, ExtremeTech, CNET, Fierce Wireless Industry News, and RCR Wireless News. Mastodon: @jay@cuthrell.com
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
A look at the tech sector's longevity obsession, with Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Larry Page, and others pledging millions of dollars to firms pursuing longer life — Tech titans, venture capitalists, crypto enthusiasts and AI researchers have turned longevity research into something between the hottest science and a tragic comedy.
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| Brady Snyder / Android Central: |
Google plans to limit the types of election-related queries that Bard and SGE respond to, starting in early 2024, in preparation for elections worldwide — The move is intended to curb misinformation as the 2024 election nears — What you need to know — Google today announced a plan … | John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
OpenAI's deals with publishers are a hedge against a scenario in which scraping becomes harder, training material more expensive, and real-time data more scarce — This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” … | Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu takes over the e-commerce business from Trudy Dai, one of Alibaba's earliest employees, who will now help oversee non-core assets globally — - Two-decade veteran Trudy Dai will help set up a holding firm — Alibaba's growth has fizzled out in recent years as PDD arose
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Source: Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30K-person ad sales unit, as the company relies more on ML techniques to help customers buy even more ads — Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30,000-person ad sales unit, an executive told some staff last week, prompting anxiety that some departments will face job cuts.| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI debuts Stability AI Membership, with free, $20/month, and custom pricing enterprise tiers, limiting commercial use of its models to the paid tiers — Stability AI, the maker of the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, is now offering a subscription service that standardizes … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Okta is acquiring Israeli cybersecurity company Spera, which raised a $10M seed in March 2023; source: the deal is worth ~$100M-$130M, contingent on milestones — The American identity and access management giant is making its first purchase in Israel. Spera, which raised $10 million …
More: Okta Inc., TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Information, PaymentSecurity.io, and San Francisco Business Times
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LinkedIn: Jay Meier, Sven Kniest, Henrique Bernardes B Teixeira, and Pramod Gosavi
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
How Matter broke its promise of an easier smart home experience: the standard suffers from poor implementation, significant backpedaling, and glacial progress — The new smart home standard finally arrived this year. But poor implementation, significant backpedaling, and glacial progress have left it broken.| Isabel Gottlieb / Bloomberg Law: |
Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms using OpenAI's tech, raised an $80M Series B co-led by Elad Gil and Kleiner Perkins at a $715M valuation — Harvey.ai raised an additional $80 million, it announced Tuesday, valuing the generative AI legal technology platform at $715 million.
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The NIST seeks public input by February 2, 2024 for setting guidelines to evaluate the safety of generative AI systems, as directed by President Biden's AI EO — The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was taking the first step toward writing key standards and guidance for the safe deployment …
More: Cointelegraph, NIST, and House Committee …
| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
A profile of PDD, the parent of Pinduoduo and Temu, which has grown rapidly since its founding in 2015 despite allegations over malware and counterfeit goods — Efforts to surpass Alibaba at home and chase Amazon abroad come with human cost — HONG KONG — It was 2006 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Media monitoring and analytics company Meltwater raised ~$65M from PE firm Verdane for an 11% stake at a $592M valuation, down from $1B+ in December 2020 — Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and big data analytics techniques, is picking up a new investor.
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Analysis: Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000S, built on SMIC's 7nm process from 2023, is slower than the HiSilicon Kirin 9000, built on TSMC's 5nm process from 2020 — You cannot beat a 5nm processor with a 7nm chip. — The year was 2020, and Huawei released its HiSilicon Kirin 9000 …
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