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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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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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| 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
More: TechCrunch, Yandex, Reuters, Neowin, NV, Financial Times, Reuters, and Benzinga. X: @maxseddon
| 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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| 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.| 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 … | Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
Montenegro's government says it has extradited Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs, to South Korea — Han Chang-joon was charged with carrying falsified travel documents alongside Terra co-founder Do Kwon last year. — Register Now — Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs …
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| 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.
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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
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Sources: the UK shelved plans to publish rules on the training of AI models using copyrighted material, after artists and tech groups failed to agree terms — Government-led talks stall as artists and tech groups fail to agree terms over access to copyrighted work| 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 … | Malena Carollo / The Markup: |
Q&A with Andrew Farnsworth, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientist, about BirdCast, a project that uses AI to process weather data and predict how birds migrate — Machine learning is powering new insights into how birds migrate—and forecasts about where they'll go next
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