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Sources: China plans to expand its ban on iPhones in sensitive departments to government agencies and state companies, an unprecedented blockade; AAPL drops 3%+ — - Beijing begins by banning the devices from certain bodies — It could deal blow to Apple and amplifies a self-reliance push
More: Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Insider, Reuters, RTÉ, AppleInsider, The Guardian, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, Livemint, MacDailyNews, NBC 7 San Diego, Forbes, Barron's Online, New York Times, MarketWatch, Pocket Gamer.biz, iMore, Supercharged, The Register, Wccftech, iThinkDifferent, ChinaTechNews.com, PetaPixel, OSnews, CNBC, Cult of Mac, and MSPoweruser
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Forums: r/China, r/technology, and r/technews
| Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: |
Source: at Gamescom in August, Nintendo demoed the Switch 2 running a souped up version of Breath of the Wild to developers; the device is expected in 2024 — Ahead of widely-expected launch next year. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — In Cologne last month …
More: Video Games Chronicle, Thurrott, Game Developer, VideoCardz.com, Gizmodo, The Sun, Dexerto, PCMag, T3, The Verge, Neowin, PC Gamer, Polygon, GameSpot, BGR, KitGuru, Kotaku, TheGamer, IGN, OnMSFT.com, GSMArena.com, Tom's Guide, Metro, Wccftech, Gameranx, Press Start, Notebookcheck, GamingBolt, and GoNintendo
Forums: Hacker News, r/NintendoSwitch, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/gaming, and r/nintendo
| CNBC: |
Riot Blockchain reports earning $31.7M in energy credits from Texas' power grid to curtail its usage in August, dwarfing the ~$8.9M worth of bitcoin mined — - Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.
More: Riot Platforms, Inc., Blockworks, The Block, Decrypt, TechSpot, CryptoPotato, and CryptoSlate
Mastodon: @GraniteGeek@newsie.social and @wildebees@mastodon.social
X: @riotplatforms, @bitcoinpierre, and @ohitsstuart
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/texas, r/politics, r/centrist, r/conservativeterrorism, r/inthenews, and r/energy
| Lane Brown / Vulture: |
How Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.
More: ScreenGeek, 9to5Mac, IGN, Dexerto, Gamereactor UK, The Wrap, SlashFilm, Screen Rant, IndieWire, and ComingSoon.net
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google plans to update Chrome to incorporate its Material You design language in the coming weeks, including refreshed icons and new color palettes — Chrome on the desktop is about to get a new look. Google's widely used browser is getting an update based on its Material You design language …
More: The Keyword, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Neowin, Mashable, Tom's Guide, OnMSFT.com, and Android Headlines
| Dylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com: |
Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for the open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5 — Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
More: Bruce Lawson's personal site. Threads: @jkottke. Mastodon: @davidroessli@mastodon.social, @mattmay@mstdn.social, @ourmaninjapan@mastodon.cloud, @rem@front-end.social, @markboulton@typo.social, @olivierlacan@ruby.social, @sjvn@mastodon.social, @lemay@mastodon.social, @triptych@social.yesterweb.org, @fraying@xoxo.zone, @redcrew@mstdn.social, @boagworld@mastodon.social, and @glightly@mastodon.social
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LinkedIn: Michael Spellacy, Pete Gaughan, and Johnathan Williamson
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: |
An IMF and Financial Stability Board paper warns jurisdictions against blanket bans on crypto, recommending targeted restrictions and sound monetary policy — The global standard-setters also warned stablecoins adopted by multiple jurisdictions “may transmit volatility more abruptly” than other crypto.
More: fsb.org, Unchained Crypto, Reuters, Decrypt, Metaverse Post, Cryptonews, CCN.com, Finextra, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoSlate. X: @brian_laverdure
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin co-authors a paper on “Privacy Pools”, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing a full transaction history — - Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin co-authored a research paper on a privacy protocol named Privacy Pools.
Source: SSRN. More: Decrypt, DeviceSecurity.io, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptonews, Metaverse Post, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says Chinese hackers who in June breached US government email accounts stole an MSA key from a crash dump after hacking a Microsoft engineer's account — Microsoft says Storm-0558 Chinese hackers stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump …
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Mastodon: @malwaretech@infosec.exchange and @jkirk@infosec.exchange
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LinkedIn: Vishal Amin, Kelli Andrews, Jeremy Dallman, and Vasu Jakkal
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/InfoSecNews
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Android Security Bulletin for September 2023 patches a privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Android 11-13 that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — The September 2023 Android security updates tackle 33 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug currently targeted in the wild.| Joe Coscarelli / New York Times: |
Ghostwriter, the anonymous creator who used AI to mimic Drake and The Weeknd, has met with record labels, Grammy organizers, and more, and releases a new song — The anonymous artist, who stirred conversation with the A.I. track “Heart on My Sleeve,” has been quietly consulting with executives, while also gunning for a Grammy.
More: Variety, Engadget, and Gizmodo
X: @imghostwrit3r, @raptalksk, @parkermolloy, @popbase, and @joecoscarelli
| Walter Isaacson / TIME: |
An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over the dangers of AI, how he founded OpenAI and xAI, and more — At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial—intelligence researcher who had co-founded … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Certa, which offers a compliance, governance, and risk management service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total raised to “just over” $50M — Certa, a compliance, governance and risk management platform for enterprises, today announced that it raised $35 million …
More: FinSMEs and SiliconANGLE
| Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt attributes angst over driverless cars to anti-robot bias, saying “anything that we do differently than humans is being sensationalized” — Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said in an interview with The Washington Post that the angst around driverless cars in San Francisco is overblown| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Anthropic launches a $20 per month version of its Claude chatbot in the US and the UK, offering priority during busy times, early access to features, and more — Anthropic, the AI company backed by Google, has launched a paid version of its Claude chatbot in the US and UK.
More: TechCrunch, Anthropic, and The Decoder
| Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Dave Clark resigns after one year at the company, which he joined from Amazon; sources: Clark is considering a potential run for governor of Texas — The former Amazon senior executive is considering a potential run for governor of Texas, according to people familiar with the matter
More: FreightWaves, New York Post, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, CNBC, GeekWire, FreightWaves, The Information, and The Information
Threads: @vishvanands and @carnage4life
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Forums: Hacker News and Blind
| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Norway's $1.4T oil fund, which owns ~1.5% of all listed companies, details its three concerns over AI: board responsibility, transparency, and risk management — Head of sovereign investor warns boards are ‘absolutely not on top’ of the issues surrounding the technology
More: Wccftech
| Zeke Faux / New York Magazine: |
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up details an April 2022 FTX conference in the Bahamas, where writer Michael Lewis lavished Sam Bankman-Fried with praise — Three years ago, nobody knew who you were. And now you're sitting on the cover of magazines. And you're a gazillionaire.
More: Financial Times and Decrypt
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube plans to drop some Studio ad controls, limiting creators' control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads, starting in November 2023 — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube … | Paresh Dave / Wired: |
In a novel move, Pinterest updates its content algorithm to surface diverse body types, powered by an AI system trained on 5B+ images of bodies of all sizes — Social media algorithms usually promote biases toward white, thin bodies. Pinterest is using machine learning to surface images of all shapes and sizes.| Forbes: |
Imbue, formerly Generally Intelligent, which says it has access to 10,000 of Nvidia's H100 GPUs to build AI “agents”, raised a $200M Series B at a $1B valuation — The startup, one of very few woman-led AI unicorns, has a $1 billion valuation and access to 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs … | Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A test of ChatGPT's ability to respond in underrepresented languages like Bengali and Kurdish found translation errors, fabricated words, and illogical answers — Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can't do basic information retrieval.| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Doug Bowser, president of Nintendo of America, describes the company's evolution from a gaming company to a broader entertainment company, including live events — For decades, Nintendo was synonymous with video games. Now in its second century, the Japanese company wants to be much more.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says its Copilot Copyright Commitment will defend customers of its AI products from copyright lawsuits if they use “guardrails and content filters” — The software giant also will pay related fines and settlements, so long as customers follow its rules.
More: Microsoft On the Issues
| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix opens an investigation into Huawei's Mate 60 Pro using Hynix's LPDDR5 and NAND flash memory, an isolated example of materials sourced outside of China — - Korean maker says it hasn't worked with Huawei since sanctions — Mate 60 Pro handset uses Hynix memory and flash storage chips
More: The Korea Times, PCMag, and Blocks and Files
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