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| 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
| Bloomberg: |
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
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Forums: r/technology, r/China, and r/technews
| 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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| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/NintendoSwitch, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, r/gaming, and r/nintendo
| CNBC: |
Riot, which mined ~$8.9M worth of bitcoin in August, says it earned $31.7M in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT that month to reduce its usage — - Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.
More: Riot Platforms, Inc., The Block, Blockworks, Decrypt, TechSpot, CryptoPotato, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, and Cointelegraph
Mastodon: @GraniteGeek@newsie.social and @wildebees@mastodon.social
X: @riotplatforms, @bitcoinpierre, and @ohitsstuart
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/politics, r/centrist, r/conservativeterrorism, r/inthenews, r/energy, and r/texas
| 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, Tom's Guide, OnMSFT.com, and Android Headlines
| 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, Decrypt, Reuters, Metaverse Post, CCN.com, Finextra, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, and CryptoSlate. X: @brian_laverdure
| 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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LinkedIn: Vishal Amin, Kelli Andrews, Jeremy Dallman, and Vasu Jakkal
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/InfoSecNews
| 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, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptonews, Metaverse Post, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
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| 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, Gizmodo, Unite.AI, nft now, and Mashable
X: @imghostwrit3r, @raptalksk, @parkermolloy, @popbase, and @joecoscarelli
| 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
| 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 …
More: Insider, Cryptopolitan, and New York Post
| 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, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, GeekWire, FreightWaves, Bloomberg, The Information, Fortune, 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
| 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.| 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 … | 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
| 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.| 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.| 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
| 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
X: @yoda
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