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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Google's video demo of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts — The tech giant's latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that's been out for eight months.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple is working with China's BYD to move iPad product development to Vietnam, with test production set to begin around mid-February 2024 — China's BYD helps American giant with shift to alternative tech hubs — Vietnam is emerging as an increasingly important production hub …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple and its suppliers aim to make 50M+ iPhones annually in India in two to three years, which would account for a quarter of global iPhone production — Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tata plans to build one of India's largest iPhone plants, employing 50,000 workers within two years, and expects operations to begin in 12 to 18 months — - New plant would speed up Apple's diversification beyond China — Tata wants more Apple business after buying one iPhone factory| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
How Meta addressed the technical challenges of developing E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features — Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat.
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| Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA is considering an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and is taking comments until January 3 before making a decision — - CMA seeking views on whether the relationship should be probed — Move is less than two months since watchdog cleared Activision
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and the UK accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in UK elections and target US energy networks and spies — The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
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| Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
A researcher says a years-old Bluetooth authentication flaw lets attackers inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands on Apple, Android, and some Linux devices — Issue has been around since at least 2012 — A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple … | Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days — Days after a data breach allowed hackers to steal 6.9 million 23andMe users' personal details, the genetic testing company changed …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How author Steven Johnson, now a Google employee for over a year, helped create NotebookLM, which lets writers extract key themes from their research material — Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer's research material and help them extract and explore the key themes.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Mobile network companies have backed themselves into a corner by racing to roll out 5G, taking on piles of debt with few returns to show for their investments — Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon sues an “international fraud organization” for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from the company through a series of refund scams — - Shoppers took gaming consoles, smartphones, tires and gold — Scammers live in US, five other countries, according to suit| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers find adding pleas to a prompt that tell its Claude 2 model not to be biased could reduce discrimination based on race, gender, and more — The problem of alignment is an important one when you're setting AI models up to make decisions in matters of finance and health.
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Grok responses Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor feels forced and try-hard — Fine. Let's talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
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