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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's recent executive promotions; sources: a cheaper Vision Pro may not have EyeSight and M3-based MacBook Pros could come in early or spring 2024 — Still, it's losing a top hardware executive. Also: There are fresh details on efforts to lower the price of the Vision Pro …
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Forums: r/VisionPro, r/ipad, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Some AI image detectors are labeling real photographs from the Israel-Hamas war as fake, creating what an expert calls a “second level of disinformation” — Content warning: This story contains graphic images of violence. — A free AI image detector that's been covered …
More: PCMag and Forbes
X: @lessin, @ourielohayon, @jason_koebler, @iethics, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephfcox
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How social media is inducing a fog of war surpassing previous clashes between Israel and Hamas, shaping the views of panicked citizens and a global public — The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult to assess what is real.
More: CNN. Mastodon: @Zeb_Larson@zirk.us, @carnage4life@mas.to, and @katestarbird@mstdn.social
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| Financial Times: |
How Brad Smith, who became Microsoft's top legal officer in 2002, used a legal, policy, and influence machine costing $1B+ a year to close the Activision deal — Company's top legal officer has honed diplomatic skills to recast the US tech giant's reputation
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| New York Times: |
The Microsoft-Activision deal closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting “vertical mergers” through courts and regulators relatively unscathed — With the completion of the blockbuster acquisition, the notion that tech giants can grow through “vertical transactions” remains intact.| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
GPT-4V, the new mode of GPT-4 that lets users upload images as part of conversations, allows for prompt injection attacks by following instructions in images — GPT4-V is the new mode of GPT-4 that allows you to upload images as part of your conversations. It's absolutely brilliant.
More: The Decoder. Mastodon: @north_easton@mastodon.social and @xris@ecoevo.social
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, which was exploited to launch record-setting DDoS attacks, requires patching every web server before the problem can be eradicated — Dubbed “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset,” the flaw requires making patches available for virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.
More: Ars Technica, The Cloudflare Blog, and CVE
X: @cisacyber, @googlecloud, @programmingart, @jbhall56, @aselipsky, and @backchnnl. LinkedIn: Jasmina V.. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Researchers find that a modest amount of fine-tuning can undo safety efforts that aim to prevent LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content — OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with ‘20 cents’ of API tickling — The “guardrails” created to prevent large language models …
More: arXiv.org, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost, Forbes, and SiliconANGLE
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC founder Morris Chang says the company expects competition from Intel and others, and Japan and Singapore have the best chance of winning the chip race — Founder adds Japan and Singapore are well-positioned to win as industry evolves — TSMC founder Morris Chang attends a sports day event in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Oct. 14.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Disney+ Hotstar reclaims the global streaming record for most live concurrent views with 35M watching the October 14 India-Pakistan ICC Cricket World Cup match — In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. A high-profile match between neighbors India and Pakistan delivered …
More: The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Moneycontrol, and What's On Disney Plus
LinkedIn: Mukund Acharya and Lalith Srinivas
| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
DappRadar: blockchain gaming projects raised $600M in Q3 2023, down 38% YoY, and $2.3B so far in 2023, which is only 30% of what was raised for all of 2022 — While the gaming industry continues to be plagued by mass layoffs, crypto gaming is still seeing many millions invested each quarter.
Source: DappRadar. More: Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, The Daily Hodl, and crypto.news
| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
A look at Obsidian, an indie, Electron-based note-taking app that has developed a cult following on Discord and Reddit; Obsidian estimates that it has ~1M users — The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software. And its strategy is working.
More: MacStories. Mastodon: @Bodling@deacon.social. X: @kepano, @chrisalbon, @kepano, @vivanvatsa, @spikedoanz, @kepano, @choldgraf, @omeruzvn, @mjpost, @twofifteenam, @generativist, @harrymccracken, @nickmilo, @moderndosh, and @fastcotech
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