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| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it — Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's new 24" iMac is in engineering validation testing, set to launch in H2 2023 at the earliest, likely with the M3, and in the old iMac's colors — Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac. Also: Its cloud chief is set to leave …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents: Binance and Binance.US are more intertwined than they have disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity to trade crypto — The exchange was intertwined with an American firm portrayed as independent. Now, regulators are circling.
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| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
At the National People's Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation for its tech hardware sector — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China's crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI's evolution and safeguard humanity's future — Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Siri co-creator Adam Cheyer says generative AI will spur an assistant voice renaissance; Satya Nadella says Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant “don't work” — Teams working on the ecommerce giant's voice assistant have been hit hard by the largest cuts in company's history
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| Associated Press: |
German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies …
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| Jason Mikula / Fintech Business Weekly: |
Internal docs appear to show executives at Eco, a personal finance app offering 2.5% to 5% in “APY rewards”, misrepresented Eco's lending practices to users — a16z- and Thiel-Backed Startup's Future Uncertain As It Loses Bank Partner, Pays User Interest With Own Funds — Hey all, Jason here.
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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
An interview with Ask Jeeves co-creator Garrett Gruener, who says his original conception was similar to the chatbots Microsoft and Google are trying to build — Garrett Gruener, the co-creator of Ask Jeeves, couldn't beat Google, but he's feeling just fine about the dawn of the chatbot era.
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Windows Report. Tweets:
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| Reuters: |
The EU says WhatsApp agreed to increase transparency over its privacy policy changes from 2021, letting users reject the rules, limiting data sharing, and more — Meta Platforms' (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 … | Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: |
A study of 13M+ Facebook posts in the run-up to the 2020 US elections found that 23% of the sampled posts with political images contained misinformation — A new study based on a massive dataset of posts collected from Facebook pages and groups in the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election finds …
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@matthindman, @matthindman, @yangyunkang, @yangyunkang, @yangyunkang, @matthindman, @matthindman, @yangyunkang, @ma_franks, @yangyunkang, @yangyunkang, @yangyunkang, @justinhendrix, @matthindman, @matthindman, @jayvanbavel, @fboversight, @decustecu, @matthindman, @matthindman, @yangyunkang, @matthindman, @emilybell, and @justinhendrix. Thanks:@masonpelt
| Reuters: |
Sources: SoftBank's Arm hopes to raise $8B+ at a $50B+ valuation in its US IPO, which is expected later in 2023 after a confidential filing in late April — Arm Ltd, the British chip designer owned by Japan's SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), is likely to aim to raise at least $8 billion …
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