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August 28, 2024, 5:50 AM

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Kevin Collier / NBC News:
US-based child safety group NCMEC, Canada-based CCCP, and UK-based IWF say their outreach to Telegram to flag CSAM on the platform has largely been ignored  —  Telegram's CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
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Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software  —  Beijing's hacking effort has “dramatically stepped up from where it used to be,” says former top U.S cybersecurity official.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is laying off ~100 people in its services group, impacting Apple Books, News, and other teams, a rare move as part of a shift in its priorities  —  Apple Inc. took the rare step of cutting about 100 jobs in its services group, part of a shift in priorities for the critical division …
Christine Fernando / Associated Press:
X updates Grok to direct users to Vote.gov for election queries, after a letter from five US secretaries of state warned of spreading election misinformation  —  The social media platform X has made a change to its AI chatbot after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation.
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit  —  - Mark Zuckerberg runs Meta, one of the world's most valuable tech companies.  — Why did he just send Congress a letter admitting that Meta has screwed up?
Joanna Nelius / The Verge:
Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that automatically takes notes during meetings conducted in spoken English, available to select Workspace customers  —  Google Meet's newest AI-powered feature, “take notes for me,” has started rolling out today to Google Workspace customers …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI demoed a breakthrough called Strawberry to US natsec officials; one of its top uses is to make training data for a flagship LLM codenamed Orion  —  In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries earlier this month, the answer almost certainly …
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
MakerDAO rebrands as Sky and debuts a new USDS stablecoin, but users criticize USDS after noticing that the token lets the issuer remotely freeze the asset  —  MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen said the feature won't be live when the USDS token goes live and the old DAI token will remain in circulation unchanged.

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