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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Hackers posted a 23andMe data sample on BreachForums, claiming 1M data points exclusively on Ashkenazi Jews, but the sample appears to lack raw genetic data — At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
More: The Record, Washington Post, Ars Technica, The Overspill, Infosecurity, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, NBC Bay Area, NBC News, Newser, Forbes, The Verge, BleepingComputer, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @tiffany.c.li. Mastodon: @bkastl@mastodon.social, @ricardoharvin@mstdn.social, @mattburgess@infosec.exchange, @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange, @ppatel@mstdn.social, @tiffanycli@mastodon.social, @lhn@mastodon.online, and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
X: @mattjay, @mattjay, @mattjay, @annetgriffin, @jh_swanson, @lilyhnewman, and @jgreigj. LinkedIn: Anmol Kapoor
Forums: Hacker News, r/TrueAnon, r/IronFrontUSA, r/worldnews, r/Judaism, r/Jewish, r/technology, r/inthenews, r/NewsOfTheStupid, and Slashdot
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release a cheaper Quest in 2024 and true AR glasses in 2025 — Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 haven't even been released yet, but the two companies are already deep into work on follow-up products.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, UploadVR, TechRadar, BGR, MIXED Reality News, FE Tech Bytes, Stock Market News, Benzinga, Hindustan Times, Forbes, Wccftech, The Apple Post, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @rsaar@vmst.io, @stroughtonsmith …, and @stroughtonsmith …
X: @sadlyitsbradley, @snazzylabs, @rectus_sa, @palmerluckey, @pvncher, @diegobez, @ejzim, @antonhand, @newsynick, @jetscott, and @hrafntho
Forums: r/OculusQuest and r/apple
| Emma Fletcher / Federal Trade Commission: |
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud from January 2021 to June 2023 said the contact started on social media, causing $2.7B in losses — Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.
More: PCMag, The Register, Silicon Republic, Infosecurity, Federal Trade Commission, BleepingComputer, crypto.news, The Messenger, Federal Trade Commission, Help Net Security, CBS News, PYMNTS.com, The Record, Daily Mail, ABC News, and Ventureburn
Mastodon: @SteveThompson@mastodon.social. X: @wsculley, @scdca, @ftc, @ftc, @catalinagoanta, and @swiftstories. LinkedIn: Jonathan Arras. Forums: Hacker News
| Natalie Weiner / The Verge: |
A look at Discogs, a user-generated music database and marketplace for physical music media, as sellers complain about the website's old tech and increased fees — A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
Mastodon: @zeruch@mastodon.social, @swanksalot@toot.community, and @libationlegacy@mastodon …
X: @dupuisj, @mulderbatflip, @burn_amb, and @natalieweiner
Forums: r/indieheads, r/Music, r/vinyl, and r/discogs
| Anthropic: |
A research paper details how decomposing groups of neural network neurons into “interpretable features” may improve safety by enabling the monitoring of LLMs — Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training …
More: Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, and Transformer Circuits Thread
Mastodon: @achterbrain@mastodon.social. X: @deliprao, @tunguz, @alexjlevenston, @mattredlon, @chinmaykak, @native_mode, @husainhz7, @_vltn, @pashakamyshev, @we4v3r, @advancedcskills, @jeremydanielfox, @leeknowlton, @nathanmcahill, @sherjilozair, @yonashav, @ultrarareaf, @ch402, @natfriedman, @anthropicai, @nickcammarata, @brickroad7, @ch402, @neelnanda5, @jason_lopatecki, @trentonbricken, @richinseattle, @bentossell, @sussillodavid, @tobyordoxford, @brayden_mclean, @sashadem, @thebasepoint, @andrew_sears, @anthropicai, @hrishioa, @shahabbakht, @xaviermalina, @anthropicai, and @nottombrown
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/CharacterAI_No_Filter, and r/singularity
| Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 to build small digital modules, pioneered minicomputers before being acquired by Compaq in 1998 — One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s. — Even though very few of the early players …
More: OSnews. Mastodon: @hynek@mastodon.social. X: @earthboundfilms, @louismcdonald, @daniel_j_payne, @glennklockwood, @marctennant, @hernandez_a, @tuch2, @angusdav, and @mstewart__1
LinkedIn: Kevin Larson, Nari Kannan, Victor Blake, Matt Kroll, Dhruva Krishnamurthy, Peter Lega, Andy Patrizio, Bob H., Gilbert West, Tim Hollingshead, and Didier Wenger. Forums: r/technology
| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung and SK Hynix say the US will let them supply US chip equipment to their Chinese factories indefinitely without separate approvals — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) will be allowed to supply U.S. chip equipment to their China factories indefinitely without …
More: Bloomberg, SamMobile, The Korea Herald, iTnews, and Sammy Fans
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones from 2016 to 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the past 12 months, up from 7.2M in 2019 — Google Pixel is still a minor player in the global smartphone market, but the brand continues to move along.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
More: Android Police, FE Tech Bytes, Benzinga, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Guide, Gizchina, PhoneArena, Droid Life, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Sam Lover, and 9to5Google
Threads: @mishaal_rahman, @trevorcroker, and @mattbirchler
X: @nehemoth and @franciegrace
Forums: r/Android and r/GooglePixel
| Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: |
LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which may impact customer service, HR, and mental health sectors — Artificial Intelligence is getting smart enough to express and measure human empathy. Here's how the new technology could change healthcare …
Mastodon: @Laukidh@infosec.exchange, @grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org, and @tchambers@indieweb.social. X: @quinnypig
| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
NewsWhip: seven of the top 10 “news” articles with the most interactions on Facebook in September 2023 were published on the catholicfundamentalism.com domain — Read to the end for the garfarious anglerfish — This Is What Replaces News On Facebook
X: @broderick
| Washington Post: |
Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and policy experts via posts on X — The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi
More: Amnesty International, Amnesty International UK, and Amnesty International
X: @donnchac and @amnestytech
| Bloomberg: |
China outlines a plan to target 300+ exaflops of computing capacity, up from 220 in 2023, bigger optical networks, advanced data storage, and more by 2025 — - Country aims to build more data centers, high-speed networks — Effort to benefit local suppliers due to security concerns
More: The Register, CNBC, and Reuters
| Rachel Read / Blooloop: |
Merlin Entertainments partners with Immersive Gamebox to test AR games based on TV shows Paw Patrol and Squid Game, starting at venues in Australia and Germany — Deal to “bring people together through technology-enabled shared play”. — Merlin Entertainments and Immersive Gamebox …
More: InterGame, Merlin Entertainments, and Financial Times
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