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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts — On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals.
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| Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: |
The conversational nature of AI chatbots makes them more trustworthy, which could result in problems including “hidden exploitation” and outright fraud — I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely.
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, after announcing the feature in September 2020 — Meta is beginning the process of disconnecting the ability to have “cross-app chats” with your Instagram contacts via Facebook Messenger and vice-versa.
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| Reuters: |
Documents: Apple warns India that its EU-style charger rules will hit local production targets and asks to exempt existing iPhone models from the rules — Apple (AAPL.O) has told India its local production targets will be hit if New Delhi follows the European Union and requires existing iPhones …
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| Alexandra Barinka / Bloomberg: |
Meta, IBM, and over 50 other companies and organizations form the AI Alliance, a coalition to work on open source AI, including to share tech and reduce risks — Meta Platforms Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are joining more than 40 companies and organizations to create … | Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Web3 developer platform thirdweb discloses a major vulnerability in its open-source library affecting many NFT collections; Thirdweb became aware on November 20 — - Thirdweb, a web3 developer platform, disclosed a security vulnerability in its open-source library.
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| Jake Kanter / Deadline: |
Amazon fails to renew its live English Premier League rights deal, as part of Sky and TNT's new £6.7B TV rights deal for four soccer seasons from 2025/2026 — - BBC Names Royals Accused In Omid Scobie Book Of Commenting On Skin Color Of Harry & Meghan's Son| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Rockstar releases the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, set in a fictional Miami, featuring a male and a female protagonist, ahead of a planned 2025 launch — Crime-themed franchise is among the most successful in video-game history — Rockstar Games released the first trailer …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google upgrades Gmail's spam filters with RETVec, a text vectorizer that understands “adversarial text manipulations” like emojis, typos, and special characters — Gmail's spam filters can now understand “adversarial text manipulations.” — The latest post on the Google …
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| Wired: |
An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs covering January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread use of filters to censor the internet, including health info — A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Ofcom starts a consultation on draft guidelines on how porn sites should lock out underage users, including having a bank or mobile network confirm a user's age — UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users' ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company didn't see much of an “interruption” from Hollywood's strikes and is still targeting a $17B content budget for 2024 — Ted Sarandos is happy the twin Hollywood strikes are over — but the Netflix co-CEO claimed the streamer didn't see significant …
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
OpenSecrets: crypto companies spent $18.96M on US lobbying in Q1 2023 to Q3 2023, up from $16.1M during the same period in 2022; Coinbase spent $2.16M, the most — The cryptocurrency industry was on track to hit a new record for federal lobbying spending, after a year in which firms scrambled …
More: Metaverse Post, CoinDesk, and crypto.news
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank acquires a 51% stake in Dublin-based Cubic Telecom, which offers software-based networking for 17M+ vehicles, for €473M, valuing Cubic at €927M — Automakers and technology companies are building ever-more sophisticated digital platforms into the future generations of cars and other vehicles.| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led to revealing training data — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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