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A Hong Kong-based firm's employee was tricked into paying $25M to fraudsters who used deepfake tech to pose as the company's CFO and staff during a video call — A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Source: Microsoft's Bethesda considers bringing the new Indiana Jones game to PS5, months after Xbox and PC release, as part of a new multi-platform approach — Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones game is also tentatively set to launch on Sony's PlayStation 5 console.
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Forums: r/PS5, r/XboxSeriesX, r/Games, and r/gaming
| Charlie Sorrel / iFixit News: |
Apple Vision Pro teardown: not great repairability-wise, an unforgivable proprietary battery plug, and a lenticular lens layer that makes EyeSight look blurry — The strangest thing about the Vision Pro is also the thing that makes it most uniquely Apple: it's got a big shiny bubble glass front …
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LinkedIn: Nico Scapel and Alexis Filipe
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| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
UK's Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry responds to end of third party cookies — Media sector scrambles to deal with fallout from phase out of cross-website trackers — Tech giant Amazon has struck … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some Tesla and SpaceX directors have consumed drugs with Elon Musk feeling there is an expectation to do so, raising concerns about their independence — Board members have reaped hundreds of millions from stock awards and separate investments, even as some have done drugs with Musk …
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Forums: r/elonmusk and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at UMG's TikTok retreat, stemming from issues like low payouts and a lack of assurances on fighting deepfakes, and TikTok's role in the music industry — We're about to find out how important TikTok is to the music industry. — Happy Grammy Sunday to those of you who celebrate.| Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: |
Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at about $5.2B — - Dutch-registered firm reaches agreement to sell Russian unit — Fallout from the war in Ukraine forced tech giant to split up| Nitish Pahwa / Slate: |
A look at the decline of Quora, which used to stand out as an accuracy-focused, knowledge-centric platform but is now filled with bizarre, AI-generated entries — This raised the issue of consent and ownership, as Quorans had to decide whether to consent to the new terms or take their work and flee.
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs — Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a raft of others fired thousands of workers in January, continuing a layoff wave that began in 2022.
Threads: @beth4158. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @remotesynth@mastodon.xyz
Forums: r/csMajors, r/economy, r/technology, and r/Economics
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Oversight Board upholds Meta's decision to leave up a maliciously edited video of Biden but calls on Meta to update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy — However, the board said Meta should update its “incoherent” manipulated media policy.
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Oversight Board, Bloomberg, BBC, Financial Times, Silicon UK, and CBS News. Mastodon: @Laukidh@infosec.exchange
| Reuters: |
Sources: soaring appetite for its AI chips and manufacturing constraints have forced Huawei to prioritise AI and slow production for its premium Mate 60 phones — Soaring appetite for Huawei's (HWT.UL) artificial intelligence (AI) chips coupled with manufacturing constraints has forced … | Umar Farooq / ProPublica: |
US police departments are using AI software from Chicago-based Truleo and other companies to analyze millions of hours of unreviewed body-cam footage — Black Boxes: How Police Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras — Body-worn cameras were supposed to deliver a revolution in transparency and accountability to policing.
More: The Verge, New York Post, and New York Times
Forums: r/Futurology, r/privacy, r/singularity, and r/politics
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