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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker — Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider.
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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
Sources: Elon Musk's Twitter is working on generative AI after buying ~10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; source: the work involves an LLM — - CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI partners with Bugcrowd to launch a bug bounty program, offering rewards from $200 to $20K but excluding some safety issues, like jailbreaks prompts — OpenAI will start paying people as much as $20,000 to help the company find bugs in its artificial intelligence systems, such as the massively popular ChatGPT chatbot.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app's local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS — On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app's data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device.
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| Laurie Clarke / VICE: |
Reddit moderators detail recent spam generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, including in higher volume and at faster post speeds, sometimes via coordinated attacks — Reddit moderators say they already see an increase in spam and that the future will “require a lot of human labor.” — LC
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Substack rolls out Notes, its Twitter-like service, to all users; writers have used Notes in beta to talk with their readers, promote newsletters, and network — Notes, the platform's new feature, functions similarly to its rival social app — LOS ANGELES — The newsletter platform Substack's …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Twitter shadowbanned Matt Taibbi's account for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets and the Twitter Files in search — The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber. — Quick(ish) recap:
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
The US Commerce Department's NTIA begins exploring possible rules for generative AI tools like ChatGPT, asking the public to comment on accountability measures — Fears grow over the potential use of artificial intelligence to commit crimes and spread falsehoods
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Artifact, the personalized news sharing app started by Instagram's co-founders, adds article comments and plans to give new profiles a public “reputation score” — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger's article app is taking a page from Reddit's playbook with upvotes, downvotes, and graded credibility—as well as AI moderation.| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Open-source LLMs are having a moment after the LLaMA leak and releases from Berkeley and others, prompting debates over the pros and cons of open and closed AI — The open-source technology movement has been having a moment over the past few weeks thanks to AI — following a wave …
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
a16z releases State of Crypto 2023, which tries to explain the dichotomy between market and product cycles and has an index showing stable product development — - a16z has released its latest State of Crypto report. — It also produced a new index that shows stable product development …
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| Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11 — Post-fix you may see MsMpEng.exe CPU usage drop by up to 75%. — A performance-sapping conflict between Mozilla Firefox …
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| Bloomberg: |
In draft guidelines, the Cyberspace Administration of China details its plans to require a security review of generative AI tools before debuting in the country — China plans to require a security review of generative AI services before they're allowed to operate, casting uncertainty … | Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube says NFL Sunday Ticket packages will cost between $249 and $489 depending on the user's subscription; the company reportedly pays the NFL $2B per year — Football fans, start saving those pennies. YouTube just announced pricing for its new Sunday Ticket package …
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| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of 10,701 US adults: ~66% aren't confident current ways to trade, use, and invest in crypto are reliable and safe; 17% have used crypto vs. 16% in 2022 — Cryptocurrency markets are taking hits from all sides - from declines in value to multiple corporate bankruptcies to lawsuits and regulatory threats.
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| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Sei, a Layer 1 blockchain focused on trading, raised $30M at an $800M valuation from Jump Crypto, Multicoin, and others, and plans to launch its mainnet in 2023 — Sei, a layer-1 blockchain focused on trading, has raised $30 million at a valuation of $800 million, Jayendra Jog, co-founder of Sei Labs, exclusively told TechCrunch.Sponsor Posts
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