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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
A September 2023 survey of 3,000+ game developers: 84% were somewhat or very concerned about the ethics of using generative AI and 35% were impacted by layoffs — Game developers are overwhelmingly concerned about the ethics of using AI. The organizers of the Game Developers Conference …
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| Juliette Perreard / Nikkei Asia: |
Generative AI and how to regulate it dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies — Finding common language with China will be difficult, European Commission official says — One of the many signs in Davos …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019 — - Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at the Mac's evolution as it turns 40, and interviews with Alan Dye and other Apple executives about Mac's future, its influence on Vision Pro, and more — The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
BreachForums admin Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin”, is sentenced to 20 years of supervised release for his role in running the cybercrime forum — Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was sentenced to 20 years of supervised release today in the Eastern District of Virginia …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A look at Nvidia and Convai's AI-powered video game NPCs, which are effectively generative AI chatbots that interact with the players — What if you could just... speak... to video game characters? Ask your own questions, with your own voice, instead of picking from preset phrases?
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nightshade, a free tool letting artists “poison” AI models that attempt to train on their artwork without permission, is now available to download on Mac and PC — It's here: months after it was first announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
After two failed attempts, a bipartisan effort is being made to remedy the issues caused by US tax law Section 174, which forces amortization of software labor — The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 is impacting some startups' tax bills, thanks to a provision that changes how R&D costs are deducted.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Canva topped $2B in annualized revenue in 2023, as the company nears a $1.5B+ share sale at a ~$26B valuation, about the same as in its previous round — - Sale of existing shares would maintain $26 billion valuation — Australian firm saw over $2 billion annualized revenue in 2023| Sam Potter / Bloomberg: |
An interview with crypto skeptic James Block, whose damning critique of Signature Bank on his newsletter, Dirty Bubble Media, became the best short call of 2023 — - Doctor whose hobby is debunking crypto made top bearish call — Report on Signature Bank appeared two months before collapse
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Cybersecurity startups raised $8.2B in 692 deals in 2023, down from $16.3B in 941 deals in 2022 and the lowest total since 2018; Q4 funding was just $1.3B — Just two years ago venture funding to cybersecurity was on fire, with more than $23 billion flooding the sector.| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17 — Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. — On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced …
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