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A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies — A U.S. District Court judge sentenced an Arizona woman to eight and a half years in prison for running a laptop farm used … | Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a “laptop farmer” — Thousands of undercover agents feed Kim Jong Un's rocket program with millions from the likes of Google and Amazon.
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The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age — Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg names Shengjia Zhao, the former OpenAI researcher who co-created ChatGPT, as chief scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs — Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — will be chief scientist at Meta's new Superintelligence Lab, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads on Friday.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR; a source says he will report to Alexandr Wang — Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June …
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| NBC News: |
Tea says hackers accessed a database from more than two years ago, leaking 72,000 images, including 13,000 verification photos and images of government IDs — The viral app requires new users to take selfies, which it says it deletes after review. — Hackers have breached the Tea app …
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Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will seek outside investment for the business unit — Intel on Thursday confirmed its plan to spin off its Network and Edge Group in a memo to customers and said it will seek outside investment for the business unit.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws — A program to share information with cybersecurity companies may have exposed unpatched flaws in the company's SharePoint service.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $3B to $5B, including from Middle Eastern investors, in a round that could more than double its valuation to $150B+ — Rival to ChatGPT maker OpenAI has so far shunned Gulf sovereign investors that ‘enrich dictators’| Morgan Sung / KQED: |
Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents — The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta will no longer accept political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation — Meta on Friday said starting in October it will no longer accept political, election or social issue ads in the European Union …
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| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022 — E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada — Microsoft has a new Copilot Appearance virtual character that responds with real-time expressions.
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| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Blackstone agrees to acquire a majority stake in NetBrain, valuing the Burlington, Massachusetts-based network operations and automation company at $750M — Blackstone Inc. is acquiring a majority stake in NetBrain Technologies Inc. in a fresh bet that artificial intelligence will transform … | Bloomberg: |
China's Unitree is marketing the R1, a humanoid robot that has multimodal AI and weighs 25kg, for $5,900, drastically lowering the entry price for such machines — Unitree Robotics is marketing one of the world's first humanoid robots for under $6,000, drastically reducing the entry price … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content — India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers … Sponsor Posts
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