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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, Bloomberg, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, 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, UploadVR, AppleInsider, FE Tech Bytes, Hindustan Times, Digital Trends, Wccftech, Stock Market News, Benzinga, Forbes, The Apple Post, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
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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: The Register, Federal Trade Commission, BleepingComputer, crypto.news, Federal Trade Commission, The Messenger, 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
| 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: Transformer Circuits Thread, Cryptopolitan, SiliconANGLE, and Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Mastodon: @achterbrain@mastodon.social. X: @deliprao, @tunguz, @alexjlevenston, @mattredlon, @chinmaykak, @native_mode, @husainhz7, @_vltn, @pashakamyshev, @we4v3r, @advancedcskills, @jeremydanielfox, @leeknowlton, @nathanmcahill, @sherjilozair, @yonashav, @ultrarareaf, @ch402, @anthropicai, @natfriedman, @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
| 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
| 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, Edwin Yeakel, Andy Patrizio, Bill Charles Ellerton, Bob H., Gilbert West, Tim Hollingshead, and Didier Wenger. Forums: r/technology
| 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.
More: FE Tech Bytes, The Indian Express, Gizchina, The Economic Times, Thurrott, and The Verge
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
More: Benzinga, Tom's Guide, Cryptopolitan, Gizchina, PhoneArena, Droid Life, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Sam Lover, 9to5Google, Android Police, and Android Authority
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
| Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Stanford University School of Medicine Dean Dr. Lloyd Minor on generative AI in medicine, the privacy risks, responsibly deploying the tech, and more — The dean of Stanford University's medical school thinks artificial intelligence will transform the medicines you take, the care you get and the training of doctors
X: @carlquintanilla. LinkedIn: Fei-Fei Li, Lloyd Minor, LinkedIn, Fei-Fei Li, LinkedIn, and Lloyd Minor
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Alexa has been claiming that the US 2020 presidential election was stolen, citing unvetted Rumble and Substack sources; Amazon says the errors have been fixed — The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source …
More: The Messenger and The Decoder
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @jon_alper@mastodon.online, @karlauerbach@sfba.social, @fraying@xoxo.zone, @andrewvandam@mastodon.social, @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone, and @davemark@mastodon.social
X: @katienotopoulos, @emzorbit, @nadlermk, and @jaxalemany
LinkedIn: Marie J. and Kate O'Neill
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/inthenews, and r/politics
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Y Combinator hires Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for publicly criticizing Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics — Best known for his relentless public criticism of Google as a monopoly, longtime Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe has a new gig …
More: Puck, TechCrunch, and The Information
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
The UK FCA plans to name crypto companies violating its financial promotions rules, widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location — - Watchdog will add firms to warning list starting on Sunday — The UK's Financial Conduct Authority will move fast to name …
More: CryptoSlate, crypto.news, CoinGape, PYMNTS.com, Finextra, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin News, and Cryptopolitan. X: @emilyjnicolle
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