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Document: the G7 plans to agree to a voluntary, 11-point code of conduct on October 30 for companies developing advanced AI systems, seeking to mitigate risks — The Group of Seven industrial countries will on Monday agree a code of conduct for companies developing advanced artificial intelligence systems …
More: Cryptopolitan, iTnews, The Verge, and and miles to go before I sleep
| Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
As Cruise suspends all its driverless operations, a look at the lack of clear federal regulations and fragmented oversight governing self-driving cars in the US — The whiplash from approval to ban in just two months highlights the fragmented oversight governing the fledgling industry
More: Gizmodo, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Last Driver License Holder, and Associated Press
X: @trishathadani and @jhoplovestrains
Forums: r/technology and r/SelfDrivingCars
| The Citizen Lab: |
Research details how vulnerabilities in signaling protocols used by mobile network operators for international roaming can be exploited to geolocate devices — Table of Contents — 2. Geolocation Attacks Against Telecommunications Networks — 4. Incentives Enabling Geolocation Attacks
More: The Intercept and Wired
Mastodon: @pboehler@mastodon.social. X: @paulcadario, @citizenlab, and @rondeibert. Forums: r/privacy
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism” — X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform's crowd-sourced fact-checking system …
More: The Information, Livemint, CNN, Social Media Today, Forbes, and Watcher Guru
Threads: @thatadamguy. Bluesky: @jesseltaylor.bsky.social. X: @elonmusk, @shayan86, @paultassi, @autismcapital, @wallstreetsilv, @shaykhsulaiman, @pitdesi, @therabbithole84, @howardlindzon, @stokel, @djsnm, @elonmusk, and @keemstar
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
HackerOne says its bug bounty programs have awarded $300M+ in rewards since the platform's inception, with 30 hackers having earned $1M+ and one receiving $4M+ — HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers … | Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
ChatGPT Plus users report an “All Tools” feature and capabilities for analyzing docs like PDFs have been added, potentially sidelining 3rd-party ChatGPT plugins — OpenAI to release updated version of ChatGPT that gives users access all GPT-4 tools - including browsing and DALL
More: The Verge and Cryptopolitan
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| The Guardian: |
UK Minister for Policing Chris Philp encourages the police to double its use of retrospective facial recognition software by May 2024 to track down offenders — Policing minister Chris Philp suggests target of more than 200,000 searches over next six months| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
An interview with Vinod Khosla on the investor frenzy around AI, why the US should use all the tools at its disposal to win the AI race with China, and more — Many are ‘investing because everybody else is’ and most will lose money, claims Vinod Khosla — Artificial intelligence start-ups …
More: PYMNTS.com
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady on testing Agility's bipedal robot Digit at Amazon, coding robotic systems with CodeWhisperer, and more — A version of this post first appeared in TechCrunch's weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at physics-informed machine learning approaches, which are in the early stages and can help AI tackle hard problems in robotics, science, and engineering — Adding what we know about the real world to artificial intelligence can make it more effective at solving some of the hardest and most essential problems| Washington Post: |
A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as the hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes — The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.” He has succeeded at only one of those goals.
More: PYMNTS.com, The Guardian, New York Times, UPROXX, MobileSyrup, and Engadget
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LinkedIn: Rob Archer, Andrei Tarnea, and Eric Anderson
Forums: r/technology, r/Twitter, and r/politics
| Emily Parker / CoinDesk: |
Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins, starting with a law that took effect in June 2023 and has terms to protect the assets underlying stablecoins — Japan's new law tries to address one of the biggest fears about major stablecoins: Do issuers really have the assets to back them?
X: @emy_wng, @magiccircletech, @moo9000, and @jp_koning
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