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Sam Altman expects “to raise a lot more over time” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs — Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's work on its “ambitious and compelling” OS updates for 2024, paused for a week after hitting a key milestone in iOS 18 and macOS 15 development — Apple's recent software development delay underscores the need to get ambitious 2024 updates right.
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Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware — Lawsuit attributes the alleged scheme to hackers in India and Vietnam — Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest …
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| Maddie Stone / The Verge: |
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks — Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California's right-to-repair law. But software locks and other obstacles seem …
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Nvidia announces the H200, an update to its standalone H100 accelerator that swaps 5.3Gbps/pin HBM3 memory for 6.5Gbps/pin HBM3E memory and ships in Q2 2024 — With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory.
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| Will Greenwald / PCMag: |
Sony PlayStation Portal review: a limited, expensive gaming handheld with a mediocre screen that does little besides enable Remote Play streaming from a PS5 — A remote handheld for your PlayStation 5 … Many gaming accessories serve specific purposes, catering to a user base by performing a single task extremely well.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
In a first, researchers show a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise — An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key. — For the first time …
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
In a major policy change, EWS says 2,100 banks on payment app Zelle began refunding imposter scam victims on June 30, 2023, after US lawmaker and CFPB pressure — Banks on the payment app Zelle have begun refunding victims of imposter scams to address consumer protection concerns raised … | Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration directs agencies to work on giving up airwaves to make room for commercial 5G networks, part of the National Spectrum Strategy — - Biden administration releases National Spectrum Strategy — Need to make better use of airwaves, administration says
More: Reuters, The White House, and U.S. Department of Commerce
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australian telecom Optus says that “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade” caused the November 8 outage that impacted 10M+ customers — Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40% …
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| Axios: |
The Block sells an 80% stake to Singaporean VC Foresight Ventures, valuing the crypto outlet at $70M and freeing the business from its financial ties to FTX — Crypto media company The Block sold a majority stake to Singaporean venture capital firm Foresight Ventures in a deal valuing the crypto outlet at $70 million.| Ryan Heath / Axios: |
OpenAI, Anthropic, Discord, Vimeo, and others sign up to the Christchurch Call to Action, established after a 2019 mass killing to suppress extremist content — Ardern sat down with Axios in Paris Friday to explain how AI is changing her approach to extremist content.Sponsor Posts
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