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Zoom updates its terms to let the company train its AI models using customer data, Zoom says only for users who consented, but doesn't offer a way to opt out — - Zoom's terms of service update establishes the video platform's right to use some customer data for training its AI models.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/cybersecurity, and r/ArtistHate
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
UK researchers train a deep learning model that can steal passwords and more by decoding keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95% — 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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Forums: r/cybersecurity and Slashdot
| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
PayPal debuts PYUSD, a Paxos-issued stablecoin and fully backed by USD deposits, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US users gradually — - PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How a false facial recognition match led to Detroit police wrongfully arresting a Black woman for carjacking and robbery, 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, and r/Detroit
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Researchers: North Korean hackers placed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for at least five months in 2022 to see 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 …
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Forums: r/UkrainianConflict and r/news
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple has a deal where TSMC effectively eats the cost of chip defects, saving billions for Apple, which will get 3nm chips about a year before rivals — When Apple's next iPhone goes on sale in September, its upgraded core processor will be more powerful than that of any rival smartphone.
More: MacRumors, Macworld, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, MacDailyNews, and Supercharged
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says Bing Chat, which is only available in products like its Edge browser and Bing app, is coming “soon” to third-party browsers, including on mobile — In late July, Microsoft confirmed its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat was testing in third-party browsers like Chrome and Safari …
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| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can use the robots.txt file to opt out — Learn more about OpenAI's web crawler, GPTBot, and how to restrict or limit its access to your website content.
More: Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, The Verge, Cryptopolitan, and The Decoder. Threads: @carnage4life
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Black Twitter users have become a “digital diaspora” searching for a replacement after Elon Musk's takeover, such as Mastodon, Threads, Spoutible, and Fanbase — The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a “digital diaspora” in search of a new home.
More: Gizmodo, Engadget, The Hill, Inside Bitcoins, New York Post, Android Headlines, Analytics Insight, CCN.com, Social Media Today, Metaverse Post, Digital Music News, and Forbes
Mastodon: @perkoch@mastodon.world and @somebitslinks@tech.lgbt
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
The White House unveils cyber initiatives to bolster K-12 schools' defenses, including up to $200M over three years from the FCC, amid rising ransomware attacks — The Biden administration on Monday will announce a host of federal and private industry initiatives to strengthen the digital defenses … | Guy Chazan / Financial Times: |
Germany's “Silicon Saxony”, where TSMC is widely expected to build a European fab, may be undermined by few local workers and rising anti-immigration movements — Industry concerned rise of anti-immigration movements in state of Saxony will hinder efforts to attract foreign talent| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Toshiba announces a ~$14B tender offer to take the company private at ~$32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies — Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private …
More: Blocks and Files, WRAL TechWire, Bloomberg, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, Toshiba, and Financial Times. Forums: Slashdot
| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup Elon Musk co-founded, raised a $280M Series D led by Founders Fund, after a reported ~$5B valuation in June 2023 — Elon Musk's brain chip startup Neuralink has raised $280 million in a funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund … Sponsor Posts
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