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| The Guardian: |
The UK Electoral Commission reports a hack by “hostile actors” starting in August 2021 and discovered in October 2022; the full scope isn't “conclusively” known — Names and addresses of 40 million registered voters were accessible as far back as 2021 after cyber-attack
More: BBC, UK Electoral Commission, Electoral Commission, TechCrunch, The Verge, PCMag, CyberScoop, OSnews, Security Affairs, Silicon Republic, CSO, Tech Monitor, The Register, HackRead, Engadget, Financial Times, Infosecurity, Bloomberg, ComputerWeekly.com, PublicTechnology, Reuters, Metro.co.uk, Politico, and City A.M.
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X: @electoralcommuk, @electoralcommuk, @electoralcommuk, @lorenzofb, @ax_sharma, @zsk, @chriscurtis94, @bushidotoken, and @philipproudfoot. Forums: Hacker News
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia unveils the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024 — - Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up
More: Nvidia Newsroom, ZDNet, VentureBeat, AnandTech, HotHardware, The Verge, Neowin, TechEBlog, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, Appuals.com, Guru3D.com, and Wccftech
X: @beth_kindig, @anshelsag, @anshelsag, @tomstokes, @tomstokes, @tomstokes, @ripster47, and @iancutress. Forums: Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces AI Workbench, which lets users create, test, and customize LLMs from Hugging Face and others on local workstations before using cloud resources — Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create …
More: TechCrunch, eWeek, The Decoder, Nvidia Newsroom, CIO.com, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Constellation Research, WinBuzzer, TechPowerUp, insideHPC, Digital Trends, and TechRepublic
X: @drjimfan and @_philschmid
| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62 — The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62. — Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals …
More: Vim announcement maillist on Google Groups, TNW, HackRead, Jan van den Berg, The Verge, The New Stack, Stack Diary, and The Register
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Forums: Hacker News, news.ycombinator.com, r/programming, r/linux, r/vim, r/opensource, r/emacs, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jane Friedman: |
An author finds “garbage books”, most likely AI-generated, uploaded to Amazon under her name and added to Goodreads; both services have since removed the titles — Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
More: Cryptopolitan and Decrypt
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X: @janefriedman, @nina_metz, @greglinden, @lexlanham, @lisadubbels, @authorsguild, @charlotteashley, and @otisframpton. LinkedIn: Jane Friedman
Forums: Hacker News and r/books
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
More: The Shaxpir Blog, gHacks Technology News, Mashable, The A.V. Club, CityLife, and Gizmodo
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Given the countless times Elon Musk has walked back announcements, the business media must rethink its coverage of X, Musk, and the fight with Mark Zuckerberg — After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
More: CNBC, The Guardian, New York Post, The Startup, Hollywood Life, Bloomberg, The Verge, Android Police, TweakTown, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Yahoo Entertainment, The Register, The Economic Times, The Apple Post, and Fortune
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @zackstanton, @platformer, @bestofdyingtwit, @thealexsylvian, @editorialiste, @jyarow, and @caseynewton. Forums: r/RealTesla
| Bloomberg: |
TSMC plans to build a €10B plant in Germany's Dresden, owning 70% of the fab while Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each hold 10% stakes, set to open by the end of 2027 — - Taiwanese giant will own 70% of fab in eastern city of Dresden — Facility to supply auto, industrial sectors starting in 2027
More: Taiwan Semiconductor …, Reuters, Network World, HotHardware, MacDailyNews, Fortune, Silicon Republic, Politico, Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, AnandTech, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, Euractiv, Supercharged, Financial Times, AppleInsider, and DigiTimes
X: @joergkukies, @james_chater, @johnliunn, @johnliunn, @tphuang, @johnliunn, @dpa_intl, @agathedemarais, @mtdtl, @nxp, @infineon, @codendahl, and @hj_mai
Forums: Hacker News and r/worldnews
| Nikkei Asia: |
Source: Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, and Intel plan to invest in Arm as soon as its Nasdaq IPO in September 2023; SoftBank owns 75% of Arm and Vision Fund owns 25% — SoftBank chip design unit to debut on Nasdaq, market cap seen topping $60bn — SoftBank Group plans to list shares in its chip deign unit …
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, BigTechWire, Apple Must, SoftBank - Investor Relations, Wccftech, Reuters, Financial Times, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, WinBuzzer, Neowin, and Bloomberg. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Messages with group end-to-end encryption and turns RCS on by default for new and existing users, but some have to agree to their carrier's ToS — After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too.
More: Android Authority, TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Police, MobileSyrup, and Droid Life. Forums: r/Android
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Grimes on her “c” persona, letting people use her voice in their music, AI, social media, Elon Musk, NFTs, a stronger sense of ethics in tech, and more — Claire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.
More: Us Weekly, New York Post, Decrypt, Insider, and ET Canada
Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social. X: @wired, @wired, @stevenlevy, @wired, and @wired. Forums: r/Grimes
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total — - U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications.
More: US Securities …, Ars Technica, CFTC, The Hill, Financial Times, and New York Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon — Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
A profile of Wiz co-founder and CEO Assaf Rappaport, who sold Adallom to Microsoft for $320M in 2015 before building the $10B Israeli cloud security startup — $200 million in sales. A $10 billion valuation. New billionaire Assaf Rappaport has built Wiz into one of software's fastest-growing startups ever.
X: @alexrkonrad, @alexrkonrad, and @alexrkonrad
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and UMG are in talks to license artists' melodies and voices for AI-made songs; goals include making a tool for fans and paying copyright owners — New technology that can mimic artists' voices has been seen as growing threat — Google and Universal Music are in talks …
More: PYMNTS.com and Reuters
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
TikTok unveils Gimme the Mic, a music competition hosted on livestreams where the US winner receives 50K Diamonds, the USD conversion rate for which is unclear — TikTok will host a music contest similar to popular talent shows like The Voice, the company announced today.
More: TikTok, Gizmodo, Mashable, Android Headlines, iThinkDifferent, and Tubefilter
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment using the open-source Visual Studio Code and that integrates Google's PaLM 2-based Codey — Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment …
More: Google for Developers Blog, 9to5Google, Neowin, and WinBuzzer
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out gradually on Android, iOS, and Windows, and support for Landscape mode on video calls — WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands its AI-powered DJ beta, available in the app's Music feed, to ~50 markets, six months after debuting the English-only feature in North America — Spotify is expanding its AI-powered “DJ” to dozens of markets globally, six months after debuting the feature in North America.
More: Spotify, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Engadget, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, and MSPoweruser
| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI's GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta's LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian — New research explains you'll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask. — Should companies have social responsibilities?
More: Forbes, Macworld, Tech Xplore, and Association for Computational Linguistics
Bluesky: @claeshs.bsky.social. X: @joeoptions, @zilevandamme, @pregeeth, @shangbinfeng, and @digital_activsm. Forums: Beehaw
| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
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| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM that generates code based on open-source BigCode project's data, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++ — Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that's not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud data management startup Rubrik acquires NYC-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M — Cybersecurity startups, in particular those hatched in Israel, have been getting scooped up a rapid pace by larger tech companies looking … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
A US judge denies Google's request for a summary judgment in a $5B lawsuit over tracking users' activities in Incognito mode, pushing the case closer to a trial — / Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers denied Google's push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over the way it tracked internet activity …
More: BigTechWire, Reuters, Benzinga, 9to5Google, Tech.co, and MacRumors
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Forums: r/privacy, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Matter's biggest problem is that companies can't agree on how to support Thread, a protocol Matter picked, especially for border routers joining mesh networks — The Thread protocol offers a robust mesh network designed to solve many of the smart home's biggest problems.
More: 9to5Mac and Neowin
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