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Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores — Apple's next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade. Behind the scenes, though …
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| Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone: |
A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today — Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along — T — IMNIT GEBRU DIDN'T set out to work in AI.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
A look at publishers' legal fight against the Internet Archive's book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers' “full book catalogs” — In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued.
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn't build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic — With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that's somewhat sophisticated” — The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine.| Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment — NOC, NOC ... Who's there? — BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run … | Financial Times: |
Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month — Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming is ending …
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Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1's 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75% — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) …
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| Emma Graham-Harrison / The Guardian: |
In Taiwan, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and other lifestyle and shopping apps are increasingly becoming part of China's information war, aided by a shared language — Lifestyle and shopping apps are the latest weapons in Beijing's information war against its neighbour — Emma Graham-Harrison and Chi-Hui Lin in Taichung| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM — South Korea's largest telco SK Telecom (017670.KS) said it will invest $100 million in U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic … | Financial Times: |
How Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other big companies are using AI to negotiate contracts, find new suppliers, and navigate other complex supply chain issues — Geopolitical tensions and new laws requiring companies to monitor environmental and human rights abuses in their supply networks drive interest| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more — In an interview at Black Hat, FBI agents explain how they target and take down DDoS-for-hire sitesSponsor Posts
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