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Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook — The chipmaker is delaying one of its biggest events, which was slated for September and expected to include more details about upcoming processors.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode — Researchers warn that a bug in AMD's chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
A researcher shows five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot can be manipulated by attackers, including turning it into an automatic spear-phishing machine — Attacks on Microsoft's Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.
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UK PM Keir Starmer says ministers will review the Online Safety Act, after London mayor Sadiq Khan said it was “not fit for purpose” following far-right riots — Move comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan said role of misinformation in unrest showed law was unfit for purpose
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 — X will pause training its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with some European users' posts, according to Europe's chief privacy watchdog.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Cisco plans a second round of layoffs in 2024, affecting at least as many as the 4,000 laid off in February, to be announced as soon as August 14 — Cisco (CSCO.O) will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the U.S. networking equipment maker shifts focus … | Financial Times: |
Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in the past month vs. 500M in 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation — Artificial intelligence app boosts usage and sales despite controversy over its data-gathering techniques| @martin_casado: |
[Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill — .@Scott_Wiener continues to falsely claim narrow opposition to SB 1047. When in reality there is massive public outcry across research, academic, public and private business and finance. Here is a mega roundup of recent announcements that fully debunk the Senator's claims 🧵
| Tom's Hardware: |
Intel details a microcode patch, available through BIOS updates, to address the elevated voltage issues that can damage some Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs — You need to install a BIOS update to ensure that your Raptor Lake CPU is not frying itself. — For the first time …
More: The Verge, PCWorld, Windows 11 Forum, PetaPixel, and TechSpot
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
DevRev, which develops AI tools to improve the efficiency of employees on support, product, and engineering teams, raised $100M at a $1.15B valuation — - The corporate software developer raised $100 million — Nutanix co-founder Dheeraj Pandey co-founded and leads DevRev
More: Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts — The tech giant has worked to execute an AI strategy independent of Sam Altman's start-up following a leadership crisis last year| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Guangzhou-based robotaxi company WeRide is seeking ~$100M in a US initial public offering and around $200M to $300M in a concurrent private placement — - Chinese robotaxi firm granted securities regulator nod in 2023 — Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance agreed to back listing
More: TechCrunch and Pandaily
| Washington Post: |
The Google monopoly ruling dealt a blow to one of Big Tech's main arguments against regulation: that 19th-century antitrust laws can't address tech innovation — The first big tech-sector anti-monopoly ruling in a generation challenges the idea that the internet era has outgrown U.S. antitrust law.
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