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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: US prosecutors have decided not to pursue a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, as much of the evidence was already presented at the first trial — U.S. prosecutors said on Friday they do not plan to proceed with a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot for iOS and iPadOS, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, three days after its Android launch — Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.
More: App Store, Ghacks, Sam Lover, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, Tabletmonkeys, Windows Latest, AppleInsider, and Gizmochina
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: hackers are abusing Google OAuth endpoint “MultiLogin” to restore expired authentication cookies and log into accounts even after a password reset — Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named “MultiLogin” …
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| NBC News: |
Sources: US intelligence determined that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US in January and February 2023 used a US ISP to communicate with China — An American intelligence assessment found that the balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive — There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple.
More: The Verge and mjtsai.com
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| CNBC: |
After a 33% plunge in 2022, the Nasdaq finished 2023 up 43%, its best year since 2020, led by Nvidia, which soared 239%, and Meta, which jumped almost 200% — - The Nasdaq climbed 43% in 2023, one of its best performances in two decades. — Similar to the rallies in 2009 and 2003 …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches GPT-4-powered Copilot Chat in general availability for all users, in the sidebar of Microsoft's IDEs, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio — Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business.
More: The GitHub Blog, Voicebot.ai, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, and The Verge
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
The UK's NHS deploys an AI stethoscope from Mayo Clinic spinoff Eko in 200 GP surgeries to detect heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and valvular heart disease — Rollout of stethoscope with pioneering technology could save lives and ease the strain on the NHS
X: @subhaan_siddiq, @mihir_kelshiker, @mihir_kelshiker, @mihir_kelshiker, @mihir_kelshiker, and @ft
LinkedIn: Noor Ashraf and Connor Landgraf
| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users — A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke …
Threads: @carnage4life and @thebrianpenny
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LinkedIn: Daniel, Rafael Brown, Frith Tweedie, and Jon Lam
| A.O. Scott / New York Times: |
Some authors are embracing chatbots as the latest iteration of an ancient literary conceit: a “muse”, or an extra intelligence, a supplemental mental database — What happens to literature when writers embrace A.I. as their muse? — The robots of literature and movies usually present either …
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| Benjamin Weiser / New York Times: |
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen says he mistakenly used bogus legal citations from Google Bard in a motion seeking an early end to court supervision — Donald Trump's former fixer had sought an early end to court supervision after his 2018 campaign finance conviction.
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| Usama Jawad / XDA Developers: |
Microsoft disables Windows App Installer's ms-appinstaller after the URI scheme was used to spread malware; Microsoft disabled and re-enabled the scheme in 2022 — Microsoft has disabled the ms-appinstaller URI scheme handler by default in the latest version of App Installer due to a rise in cyberattacks.
More: Microsoft Security Blog, BleepingComputer, Microsoft Security …, Thurrott, BankInfoSecurity.com, Petri IT Knowledgebase, TechRadar, Cybernews.com, Ghacks, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, Microsoft Learn, and The Record
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