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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who left Google after over a decade to speak about AI's risks, on part of him regretting his life's work and more — For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple uses its Rapid Security Response feature, announced at last year's WWDC, for the first time, pushing a more lightweight fix to iOS and macOS users — Rapid Security Response updates haven't been released to the public until today. — When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16 …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Mastodon announces a new onboarding experience that makes mastodon.social the default server choice, instead of requiring users pick from thousands of instances — Mastodon is making it easier for newcomers to create an account on the platform. On Monday, the decentralized network announced …
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| Matt Binder / Mashable: |
Automattic plans to drop its WordPress plugin JetPack's ability to automatically tweet blog posts, citing Twitter's dramatic change to its API terms and pricing — Twitter continues to lose vital support from major companies. — When users set up a brand new WordPress-powered website …
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| Emily Mason / Forbes: |
Sources: Apple's high yield savings account offering a 4.15% annual return brought in nearly $400M in deposits on launch day and ~$990M over its first four days — Apple's AAPL freshly launched high yield savings account brought in as much as $990 million in deposits over its first four days …
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
NewsGuard finds 49 websites with generic names like “News Live 79” using generative AI and posing as news outlets; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads — The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online …
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| Rebecca Rubin / Variety: |
The Super Mario Bros. Movie crosses $1B globally at the box office, becoming the first to do so in 2023 and the most financially successful video game movie yet — “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is officially the first film of the year to cross the coveted $1 billion milestone at the global box office.
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| Financial Times: |
The FDIC and California regulators say JPMorgan Chase plans to acquire most of First Republic Bank, which was a tad bigger than SVB and had $100B+ in outflows — Depositors protected but shareholders wiped out in country's second-largest bank failure — JPMorgan Chase is to acquire …
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Sheila Bair and Ben Eisen
| Becky Ferreira / VICE: |
Researchers used a GPT AI model and fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from human subjects, a breakthrough in reading people's thoughts — An AI model similar to ChatGPT was combined with fMRI readings to non-invasively decode continuous language from subjects, a new study reports.
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| Forbes: |
Bhutan has quietly been mining bitcoin since 2019, becoming the second country after El Salvador known to have a state-run mine, and is planning a 100 MW mine — The Himalayan kingdom confirmed it has been running a bitcoin mining operation as mystery surrounds the scale of its earlier cryptocurrency investments.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Despite scary warnings by the FBI, the FCC, and others about “juice jacking” at public charging stations, there are no documented cases of an attack in the wild — Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?
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Forbes, The Verge, and Six Colors
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft partners with PayPal, Stripe, and GoDaddy to launch a payments system inside Teams to let SMBs in the US and Canada collect payments during a meeting — Microsoft is launching a payments system inside Microsoft Teams that lets small businesses earn money from appointments, classes …
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Microsoft Tech Community, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, Neowin, BigTechWire, OnMSFT.com, and Finextra
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