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January 7, 2024, 3:02 AM
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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is about 30% less than in 2022  —  U.S. national security officials have raised concerns about North Korea's use of stolen crypto to develop nuclear weapons.  —  Register Now
Steven Levy / Wired:
A defense of AI hallucinations, which can spur human creativity and, by forcing users to fact-check, act as a firewall in the transition to superintelligent AI  —  It's a big problem when chatbots spew untruths.  But we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: some executives and board members at companies run by Elon Musk fear his use of drugs, including LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy, could harm his companies  —  Some executives and board members fear the billionaire's use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks and should get “much better over the next few weeks”  —  Adam Mosseri says that Threads has had some issues with what he calls “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks.
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps  —  Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and other scams.
Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se:
Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy  —  I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory.  Now I can't hold back anymore.
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Hands-on with Midjourney v6: generates highly detailed images that sometimes seem unrealistic, a different approach to prompting compared to v5, and more  —  As Midjourney rolls out new features, it continues to make some artists furious.  —  In December, just before Christmas …
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Threads: @luokai and @luokai.  Mastodon: @Luk@mamot.fr.  X: @nickfloats.  Forums: Ars OpenForum
Ann Carrns / New York Times:
The US IRS starts testing its free, “mobile friendly” direct e-filing system with some low- and moderate-income taxpayers in 12 US states  —  Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria.  But the agency's plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.
Mastodon: @dsacer@fediscience.org.  X: @castrotech, @brij, @shwinyo, and @mpopv.  Forums: Hacker News
Financial Times:
Source: the British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October cyberattack that rendered most of its services inaccessible  —  London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services

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CNN:
Sources: Pete Hegseth pushed for two F-15 crew members rescued from Iran to join a 60 Minutes story; Bari Weiss lobbied Hegseth to give CBS exclusive access

New York Times:
The Cable Center sells its 75K-square-foot Denver headquarters for $19.5M, as cord-cutting and media consolidation cause financial strain for the nonprofit

Max Tani / Semafor:
A look at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's tense relationship with financial media, sources say after Bloomberg's 2025 story on his two “principal residences”

More News

Washington Post:
Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft
The Verge:
What to expect at CES 2024: laptops with Intel's new Core Ultra chips, TVs with AI processing, AI-powered smart home devices and appliances, and more
Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal:
Peloton partners with TikTok to create an exclusive, co-branded workout content hub on the short-video platform, available in the US, UK, and Canada

Earlier Picks

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Filing: MobiKwik, a Peak XV-backed Indian payments and digital wallet provider, seeks to raise ~$84.2M in an IPO, and plans to raise ~$16M in a pre-IPO round
Lim Hui Jie / CNBC:
Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
A look at the MVNO market as eSIM eases distribution; the global MVNO market is valued at $84B and is expected to grow 40% in the next five years to $116.8B
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Incase partners with Microsoft to sell PC accessories, which Microsoft discontinued in 2023; new products include ones that Microsoft designed but never shipped
Bloomberg:
China says Tesla will deploy an OTA update to fix Autopilot issues in 1.6M+ cars, or virtually all of its cars ever sold in China, after a US recall in December
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