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Apple acknowledges the US “smartphone market has been in a decline for the last couple of quarters”; sources: the iPhone 15 will go on sale around September 22 — On the cusp of the iPhone 15 debut, Apple has finally admitted what has long been clear: The industry is facing a smartphone slowdown.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
UK researchers train a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with 95% accuracy overall and 93% on Zoom — A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using …
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How a false facial recognition match led to a Black woman being wrongfully arrested for carjacking and robbery in Detroit, the first such known case for a woman — Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking.
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Shoddy self-published guidebooks, which appear to be compiled with the help of generative AI and promoted via deceptive reviews, are proliferating on Amazon — In March, as she planned for an upcoming trip to France, Amy Kolsky, an experienced international traveler who lives in Bucks County …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI — A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How Black users are searching for a replacement to Black Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, from Mastodon to Threads to Fanbase, becoming a “digital diaspora” — The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a “digital diaspora” in search of a new home.
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| Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF reports a $15.6B loss in 2022 after its Vision Fund and tech investments cratered; assets under management reached $595.5B due to Aramco — - Softbank's fund saw a record loss of $32 billion in 2022 — Current estimates place the PIF's assets at $777 billion
More: Bloomberg, New York Times, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Josh Zumbrun / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers show how ChatGPT 3.5 performs better than ChatGPT 4.0 in several tasks, often math related, highlighting the issue of “drift” in improving AI models — AI chatbots have stoked fears that they could spin out of control, but they also suffer from a type of deterioration called ‘drift’| Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: |
China's Hua Hong Semiconductor raises $2.96B in its Shanghai IPO, the largest in the Asia Pacific region in 2023; the company is already listed in Hong Kong — - Company raised nearly $3 billion through the share sale — It is the largest listing in the Asia Pacific region this year
More: Reuters, South China Morning Post, CNBC, and Tech in Asia
| Guy Chazan / Financial Times: |
Germany's “Silicon Saxony”, set to become the home of TSMC's European fab, may be undermined by a lack of local workers and rising anti-immigrant sentiment — Industry concerned rise of anti-immigration movements in state of Saxony will hinder efforts to attract foreign talent| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
After social media upended the fashion and beauty magazine industries, some women turn to Facebook Groups and Substack to find curated recommendations — People still want to know what to wear and what is actually worth buying — and they want to trust the person telling them.
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| Reuters: |
Researchers: North Korean hackers installed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for five months in 2022 to read emails and more — An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months last year …
More: SentinelOne, Associated Press, Reuters, and Bloomberg
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