Techmeme: Researchers: when given 15 CVE descriptions, GPT-4 autonomously exploited 87% of the “one-day” vulnerabilities, compared to 0% for every other model tested (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News

April 21, 2024, 10:50 PM

Top News

Lauren Feiner / The Verge:

The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok — The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …

More: Bloomberg, Associated Press, Axios, NBC News, NPR, Euronews, Washington Post, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Forbes, Gizmochina, The White House, Associated Press, CNN, Android Authority, Mashable, CBS News, Salon, News.ng, TechRadar, Mothership.SG, Tech Policy Press, iThinkDifferent, Black Enterprise, mxdwn Music, Benzinga, CGTN, Livemint, Euractiv, Politico, MarketWatch, TRT WORLD, Hindustan Times, KYMA-TV, Neowin, New York Post, WWD, IGN, Newsmax, CoinGape, AppleInsider, PCMag, New Jersey Globe, Digital Music News, Deseret News, Notebookcheck, UPI, NewsBytes, KGTV-TV, ABC, The Mirror, Times of India, ANI News, Comic Book, Newser, PhoneArena, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, Mother Jones, Wired, The Information, TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, Deadline, The Daily Beast, News18, RTL Today, Oneindia, New York Daily News, NBC News, Rolling Stone, Sky News, HuffPost, Business Insider, CNBC, Fast Company, Just The News, JURIST, ABC30, GZERO, MSNBC, NBC4 Washington, ZNetwork, CNET, Fox Business, KEYE, Yahoo News, and Barron's Online

Threads: @bobbyallyn, @southern.fried.fat, @dara_ann_insta, @firerock31, @alfredo_liberal, @edithb.j, @forwardforty, @joelgratcyk, @justinmixon2, @kevincolliernbc, @martinsfp, @pshnw2020, @susyqli, @detmolly, @barbarajsobel, @sonourable, @jw, and @b_fung

X: @elonmusk, @sahilkapur, @repcori, @davidsacks, @binarybits, @politicalpunk, @alexbarinka, @jakesherman, @jacobhelberg, and @therecount

LinkedIn: Brian W. Tobin, Ph.D. and Karl E. Krueger

Forums: r/indonesia, r/technews, r/neoliberal, r/rspod, r/Sino, r/taiwan, r/politics, and r/technology

New York Times:

How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more — Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy democratic creativity, exhibitionism, utter lack of limits and vast variety of hustlers?

More: Politico and CNET

X: @sapna, @nunez_anna, @jordynjournals, @thedragonfeeder, @abedian_amiri, @nytimes, @actionhero, @rutgerscomminfo, @jordynjournals, @dealbook, and @nytimes

LinkedIn: Jacqueline Flam Stokes and Heather Hosey. Forums: r/TrueReddit

See also Mediagazer

Jameson Dow / Electrek:

Tesla cuts the price of its Full Self-Driving software to $8K from $12K in the US, following a price cut from $15K to $12K in September 2023 — Tesla has once again lowered the price of its Full Self-Driving software by $4,000, now costing $8,000, down from a previous price of $12,000 in the US.

More: The Guardian, Associated Press, BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, Reuters, PCMag, Reuters, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Notebookcheck, Fortune, Business Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Benzinga

Threads: @mrlevine, @technicallymims, @carnage4life, @teslatunnel, and @carnage4life

X: @wholemarsblog, @beardedtesla, @slye, @morningbrew, @techau, @strivenb, @jeremyjudkins_, @stanphylcap, @wholemarsblog, and @chazman

Forums: r/teslainvestorsclub, r/teslamotors, and r/RealTesla

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:

President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026 — The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …

More: TechCrunch, The White House, CNN, Associated Press, NBC News, New York Times, Engadget, Axios, The White House, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Washington Post, CyberScoop, The Record, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, New York Times, Fox News, Library of Congress, The Hill, The Record, New York Post, and Pixel Envy

Threads: @pianotinkler1, @dnvolz, @mgogel, @spencer_e_91, and @cspan

Bluesky: @drgonzo123.bsky.social, @younodonk.bsky.social, and @mmasnick.bsky.social

X: @lizagoitein, @vivekgramaswamy, @mer__edith, @kevinbankston, @snowden, @mattrosoff, @vivekgramaswamy, @craigcaplan, @randpaul, @randpaul, @burgessev, @randpaul, @cspan, @randpaul, @basedmikelee, @basedmikelee, @senatorromney, @senatorheinrich, and @basedmikelee

Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:

A look at Block-funded Gridless, which operates bitcoin mines in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, powered through solar power and wasted energy from a geothermal site — WATCH NOW — Jack Dorsey backed start-up taps into geothermal, hydro and solar power to run bitcoin mines across Africa

More: Cryptonews. X: @kenziesigalos, @cnbc, and @jeromebailly

Forums: r/UpliftingNews and Slashdot

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:

A look at Home Assistant, an open-source smart home platform with an estimated 1M users, as its creators announce a foundation to help it reach the mainstream — How Home Assistant plans to transition from an enthusiast platform to a mainstream consumer product.

Mastodon: @pee@mastodon.online, @oh_that_courtney@hachyderm.io, and @TechDesk@flipboard.social. X: @quinnypig

Forums: r/gadgets, r/technology, r/tech, r/homeautomation, and r/homeassistant

Washington Post:

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 — Waves of layoffs and policy shifts are forcing campaigns to change tactics, potentially transforming the 2024 election

OatmealDome:

Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn't allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations — Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators in the App Store.

More: 9to5Mac and Tom's Guide

Threads: @quillmatiq. Mastodon: @matt@isfeeling.social, @michaelsteeber@mastodon …, @aleck@mastodon.social, @rileytestut@mastodon.social, @stroughtonsmith …, and @craiggrannell@mastodon.social

X: @carnage4life, @provenanceapp, @eric_seufert, @webimer, @webimer, @jessebenisrael, and @webimer

Forums: Hacker News, r/iosgaming, and r/EmulationOniOS

John Koblin / New York Times:

Antenna: ~25% of subscribers to US streaming video services, or 29M+ users, canceled 3+ of them in the past 2 years, as they increasingly jump between services — Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry.

X: @sportstvratings and @dentuttle

LinkedIn: Cosmin Ene, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, and David Vogler. Forums: Hacker News

Sponsor Posts

Soxton:

Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!

F5:

Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.

Zoho:

Zoho RPA named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix by Nucleus Research — Zoho RPA has been named a Leader in the 2026 RPA Technology Value Matrix, published by Nucleus Research …

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:

SpaceX's IPO Triumph, Anthropic's Fable Fumble, OpenAI's Price War

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Access:

A top iPhone app developer reacts to Apple's new Siri

A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.

Subscribe to Access.

Hard Fork:

'Hard Fork' Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn

The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.

Subscribe to Hard Fork.

The Upstarts Podcast:

TBC's Alex Ksendzovsky: The Neurosurgeon Using Brain Cells To Build Better AI

Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.

Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.

BG2 Pod:

The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang

Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.

Subscribe to BG2 Pod.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.

Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:50 PM ET, April 21, 2024.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:

Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:

A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:

A look at an AI-reliant news site for 19 towns south of Boston, which uses public meeting transcripts and LLMs to produce stories and has 350 paid subscribers

Upcoming Tech Events

Y Combinator Spring Demo Day

AI Engineer World's Fair

HYBRID: Dreamforce REGISTER NOW

More News

Thomas Claburn / The Register:

Researchers: when given 15 CVE descriptions, GPT-4 autonomously exploited 87% of the “one-day” vulnerabilities, compared to 0% for every other model tested

More: Dark Reading, arXiv, arXiv, Daniel Kang, and Tom's Hardware

Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @mttaggart@infosec.town

X: @soundboy and @daniel_d_kang

LinkedIn: Stanley Tsang, Michael Tchuindjang, Ben Hanson, Christopher Peacock, and Andrew Bandeira

Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:

PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down

X: @clareconley. LinkedIn: Jason James and Kyle Houser

Kate Rogers / CNBC:

A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed

Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social. X: @simonkp, @capolicylab, and @mmitchell_ai

Forums: r/technews and r/technology

David Cassel / The New Stack:

An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more

More: The Verge, PC Gamer, Cryptopolitan, and ZDNet

X: @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @arungupta, @dwaynephillips, @ron_brash, @joab_jackson, and @mdolan. LinkedIn: The Linux Foundation

Robert Burnson / Bloomberg:

Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is “revisionist history” and a bid to boost his AI company

More: The Decoder. X: @business

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:

Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

More: Business Today. Mastodon: @jwildeboer@social …. X: @onlycliches, @pamelawatching, @carnage4life, @quinnypig, and @reuterslegal

Forums: Hacker News and r/technology

Earlier Picks

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production

More: TrendForce Insights, ExtremeTech, TechNode, and Tom's Hardware

X: @kanthan2030 and @pstasiatech

Nikkei Asia:

SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech

More: KED Global, DatacenterDynamics, SK hynix Newsroom, KED Global, TweakTown, DigiTimes, The Korea Herald, SamMobile, Wccftech, insideHPC, The Investor, and AnandTech

Bloomberg:

Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX

More: Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, Crowdfund Insider, crypto.news, DL News, PYMNTS.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, and Cointelegraph

X: @chrisdolmetsch. LinkedIn: Kelvin Low

George Steer / Financial Times:

Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets

More: MarketWatch, Nikkei Asia, Benzinga, Quartz, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg Television on YouTube, Agence France-Presse, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg

Threads: @pkedrosky and @pkedrosky

Bluesky: @segatape.bsky.social and @lopatto.bsky.social

X: @cramertracker, @bryanrbeal, @abacaj, @rahll, @bindureddy, @elonmusk, @3peakstrading, @fchollet, @kobeissiletter, @kobeissiletter, @gurgavin, @jessecoheninv, @stocktonkatie, @davidsettle42, @tunguz, @paulg, @gunjanjs, and @followtheh

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:

Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone

More: The Verge and 9to5Toys

X: @nothing, @raywongy, @nothing, and @nothing

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough”

More: Post. and TechCrunch

Threads: @gaborcselle, @crumbler, @stop, @taylorlorenz, and @hellodavidryan

Mastodon: @J12t@social.coop, @josh@josh.tel, @polotek@social.polotek.net, @cardamomaddict@mstdn.ca, @w7voa@journa.host, @jdrch@mastodon.social, and @NevadaWolf@birds.town. Bluesky: @andrewkjennings.com

X: @lessin, @bluesky, @kerrymflynn, @cbouzy, @alexeheath, @jayrosen_nyu, @cbouzy, and @cbouzy

Forums: Hacker News and r/technology