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Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping — Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
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| The Verge: |
Source: OpenAI plans to launch its next flagship model, codenamed Orion, by December, rolling it out in phases starting with the company's trusted partners — OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned. — Unlike the release of OpenAI's last two models …
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Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach — UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen …
More: Reuters, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and Healthcare Dive
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google will add an AI info section in the image details view of Google Photos, for images edited with tools like Magic Editor and Magic Eraser — There's no putting the genie back in the bottle when it comes to generative AI forever shaking our trust in photos, but the tech industry …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities — Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
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LinkedIn: Caleb Sima, Ícaro Magalhães, David Thompson, and Todd Dailey
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Source: TSMC's US division president said during a webinar that production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher than at similar facilities in Taiwan — - Production yields in Arizona are 4 percentage points higher — The Phoenix plant began trial production earlier this year
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| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the fight over valuable social media accounts when couples divorce; data: 44% of 27M paid US content creators say social media is their full-time job — When couples who make their living online split up, assessing the accounts' future value and divvying them up fairly is a drag
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| Bluesky: |
Bluesky says it has 13M+ users, has raised a $15M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, and plans a subscription for features like higher quality video uploads — Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we've shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta debuts “quantized” versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek — Meta Platforms Inc. is striving to make its popular open-source large language models more accessible with the release of …
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| Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg: |
A US federal judge allows 150+ cases from school districts against Meta, Google, and Snap alleging their apps contributed to students' mental health crisis — - Federal judge lets claims proceed after state judge declined — Companies face significant exposure from hundreds of cases| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Filing: Microsoft puts an “assessment of investing in bitcoin” as a voting item for its December 10 shareholder meeting; its board recommends voting against it — - Microsoft placed an “assessment in investing in bitcoin” on the voting ballot ahead of its 2024 annual shareholder meeting in early December.
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X: @bitcoinmagazine, @tftc21, and @bitcoinmagazine
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says “we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning”; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs — Apple may not be doing a formal product event this October, but the company is teasing a “week” of Mac announcements starting Monday morning.
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Apple adds an iMessage child safety feature in iOS 18.2 beta 1 in Australia that will let children report images or videos with nudity sent to them to Apple — Change is part of a beta release in Australia that expands on existing detection defaulted for under-13 users
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
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