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| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OculusQuest, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Brian McGleenon / The Block: |
As the UK FCA widens its crypto marketing rules, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies, expecting to continue serving UK customers — - Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved. — At the same time …
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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.
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X: @mattjay, @mattjay, @mattjay, @annetgriffin, @jh_swanson, @lilyhnewman, and @jgreigj. LinkedIn: Anmol Kapoor
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Investors and analysts: Intel, Nvidia, and others in Israel are set to fortify security and face disruptions after Hamas attacks; Nvidia cancels an AI summit — Tech companies operating in Israel are expected to fortify security as they could face disruptions, said investors and analysts … | 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
| 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.
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X: @wsculley, @scdca, @ftc, @ftc, @catalinagoanta, and @swiftstories. LinkedIn: Jonathan Arras. Forums: Hacker News
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
An investigation details FTX staff's all-night race to stop a crypto heist as the exchange collapsed, ultimately losing $415M to $432M to unidentified hackers — The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers.
More: The Block. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @couts@mastodon.social
X: @a_greenberg, @emilyjnicolle, @a_greenberg, and @lilyhnewman
| 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| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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, r/CharacterAI_No_Filter, and r/singularity
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