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Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer's account — Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China plans to expand its ban on the use of iPhones in sensitive departments to include government-backed agencies and state-owned companies — - Beijing begins by banning the devices from certain bodies — It could deal blow to Apple and amplifies a self-reliance push| Dylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com: |
Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for the open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5 — Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas — The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Android Security Bulletin for September 2023 patches a privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Android 11-13 that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — The September 2023 Android security updates tackle 33 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug currently targeted in the wild.
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| Lane Brown / Vulture: |
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple's budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang — Apple has been expanding its computing budget for building artificial intelligence to millions of dollars a day.
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| Joe Coscarelli / New York Times: |
Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while also gunning for a Grammy.
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
California Governor Newsom signs an EO on AI risks, instructing state agencies to examine AI threats and authorizing state employees to experiment with AI tools — Gavin Newsom touted Silicon Valley's AI dominance, but warns of a “Pandora's box.” — The state of California has entered …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to drop some Studio ad controls, limiting creators' control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads, starting in November 2023 — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube …
More: The Keyword, Google Help Center, Ghacks, Dexerto, and 9to5Google
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google plans a November policy update requiring election advertisers to prominently disclose when their ads contain generative AI-based images, video, or audio — Audio, images and video on political advertising will need to be labeled … The policy update, which applies starting mid-November …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Clubhouse updates its iOS and Android apps to include asynchronous voice-only group chats, in an attempt to be “more like a messaging app” — Clubhouse is back, kinda. The app that popularized social audio rooms is reinventing itself “to be more like a messaging app” …
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin co-authors a paper on “Privacy Pools”, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing a full transaction history — - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin co-authored a research paper on a privacy protocol named Privacy Pools.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
UNESCO report: overreliance on online learning during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered discussion on equitable, lower-tech options — Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
More: UNESCO, Tech Xplore, and UNESCO
| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A test of ChatGPT's ability to respond in underrepresented languages like Bengali and Kurdish found translation errors, fabricated words, and illogical answers — Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can't do basic information retrieval.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI announces its first developer conference, OpenAI DevDay, on November 6 in San Francisco, and plans to livestream a keynote presentation — OpenAI will host its first developer conference this fall, as the ChatGPT-maker looks to bolster interest in its products while facing growing competition … | Walter Isaacson / TIME: |
An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over the dangers of AI, how he founded OpenAI and xAI, and more — At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial—intelligence researcher who had co-founded … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Spotify tests making song lyrics a Premium-only feature, currently “with a limited number of users in a pair of markets”, as the company seeks to boost revenue — A number of Spotify users began to notice something strange over the last day or so: the in-app lyrics … | Zeke Faux / New York Magazine: |
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up details an April 2022 FTX conference in the Bahamas, where writer Michael Lewis lavished Sam Bankman-Fried with praise — Three years ago, nobody knew who you were. And now you're sitting on the cover of magazines. And you're a gazillionaire.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Tel Aviv-based Ibex Medical Analytics, which uses AI for cancer diagnostics, raised a $55M Series C led by 83North, bringing its total funding to $100M+ — The Israeli startup's platform provides health systems and diagnostic laboratories with an integrated solution for cancer diagnosis …
More: FinSMEs, Globes Online, Jerusalem Post, HIT Consultant, IBEX, and Metaverse Post. X: @startupscoop
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
A profile of Circle, after secondary market shares of the USDC developer traded at a ~$4.8B valuation in August 2023; Circle was valued at $8B in April 2022 — On a fateful evening in March, Jeremy Allaire sat in a Dubai hotel room as a catastrophe unfolded.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Slack announces Slack AI, which can generate channel highlights, thread summaries, and search answers based on messages, with a pilot starting “this winter” — Salesforce will pilot the generative AI capabilities it developed for Slack later this year.
More: The Verge, Slack, CNET, Axios, Neowin, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Alex York / Forbes: |
London-based Shop Circle, which provides e-commerce software to merchants, raised a $120M Series A in equity and debt led by 645 Ventures and 3VC — London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday.
More: FinTech Global, Silicon Canals, Shop Circle, PYMNTS.com, and PR Newswire
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