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A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society — It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a final ruling; the site's mods say most ChatGPT answers are wrong — Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
Sam Bankman-Fried admits involvement in two of Alameda's largest uses of funds: spending $3B to buy out Binance's FTX stake and pouring $4B into venture capital — Exchange's former CEO says he was close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm — Speaking from his bed in Nassau …
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| Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine: |
Unlike Bernie Madoff, SBF has not confessed to criminal conduct, arguing sloppiness and missteps caused FTX's collapse, meaning a US prosecution could take time — On December 11, 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested and criminally charged with one of the biggest financial frauds in history … | Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
SBF claims FTX CEO John Ray is not working with him, not replying to messages, and made false statements, while dodging questions on Alameda and loaning funds — - Sam Bankman-Fried is taking aim at John Ray, the new CEO of FTX, claiming he's been iced out after the firm filed for bankruptcy protection.
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| Reuters: |
Source: Foxconn plans to resume full production in its Zhengzhou plant in late December or early January, after worker unrest; November revenue fell 11.4% YoY — Apple supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) expects its COVID-hit Zhengzhou plant in China to resume full production around late December to early January …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Rackspace takes down its hosted Microsoft Exchange services and confirms a “security incident”, causing an “extended outage”; customers complain of poor support — Warns recovery could take several days and pledges better support after customer complaints
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Orthogonal Trading defaults on eight loans to lending protocol Maple Finance, totaling $36M, or ~30% of active loans on the protocol, likely due to FTX exposure — - Orthogonal Trading has defaulted on eight loans totalling $36 million on lending protocol Maple Finance.
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Following tests on Instagram, Meta begins testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, letting users upload IDs or video selfies screened by partner Yoti — Meta is testing age verification tools on Facebook Dating, a move the company says will make the product safer, per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios.
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| NBC News: |
Secret Service report: China-linked APT41 hackers stole $20M+ in US COVID-19 relief benefits, the first known pandemic fraud tied to state-affiliated hackers — Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans … | Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
USDC stablecoin developer Circle terminates its plan to go public via a SPAC merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., announced in July 2021, by mutual agreement — The firm had announced plans to go public in July of 2021. — Circle, the company behind stablecoin USDC …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: mass shipments of Apple's AR/VR headset may be delayed until H2 2023, from the previously estimated Q2 2023, due to “software-related issues” — Mass shipments of Apple's long-rumored AR/VR headset may be delayed until the second half of 2023 due to unspecified …
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