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October 16, 2023, 4:25 AM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's recent executive promotions; sources: a sub-$2,500 Vision Pro won't 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 …
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Some AI image detecting tools 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 …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
How social media is inducing an Israel-Hamas fog of war surpassing previous Gaza clashes, shaping how panicked citizens and a global public view the conflict  —  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.
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Australia fined X ~$384K and warned Google after the companies didn't give enough info about their efforts to fight CSAM despite a law requiring the disclosure  —  The service formerly known as Twitter told Australian regulators that its automated detection of abusive material had declined after Elon Musk bought it.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT-4V, which lets users upload images as part of conversations with GPT-4, enables new vectors 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.
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Researchers find that a modest amount of fine-tuning can bypass safety efforts aiming to prevent LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content
Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal:
How Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex became a major money laundering channel for cybercriminals and terrorist groups like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad  —  Garantex's international pipeline helps defy Treasury sanctions by channeling rubles to crypto to dollars.  Customers line up with bags of cash.
Financial Times:
How Brad Smith, who became Microsoft's top legal officer in 2002, used a legal, policy, and influence machine costing $1B+ per year to close the Activision deal  —  Company's top legal officer has honed diplomatic skills to recast the US tech giant's reputation
New York Times:
The Microsoft-Activision deal's closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting “vertical mergers” through courts and regulators relatively unscathed
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
The US FTC says the agency remains focused on its appeal opposing Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition and will “assess” the cloud gaming deal with Ubisoft
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 its app has ~1M users  —  The indie darling rejects everything you know about modern software.  And its strategy is working.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Disney+ Hotstar reclaims the global on-demand video streaming record with 35M concurrent viewers of the India-Pakistan ICC Cricket World Cup match on October 14  —  In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game.  A high-profile match between neighbors India and Pakistan delivered …
Financial Times:
Gary Gensler says it's “nearly unavoidable” that AI will cause a financial crisis if many institutions rely on the same underlying base model or data aggregator  —  SEC head warns reliance on a few data models could unleash a financial crisis within a decade

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Associated Press:
President Trump signed an EO on May 1 instructing CPB and other agencies to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters' reporting

Washington Post:
After VOA director said staff can begin a “phased return”, an appeals court stays the preliminary injunction that allowed VOA and USAGM staffers to go back

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
The LA Times Guild says 14 of its members have been laid off, or 6% of its newsroom staff, the third round of newsroom layoffs at LAT in as many years

More News

Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
DappRadar: blockchain gaming projects have raised ~$600M in Q3 2023, down 38% QoQ, and $2.3B so far in 2023, which is only 30% of what was raised in all of 2022
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
How Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy pushes policymakers to focus on AI's long-term risks by funding the salaries of congressional and federal agency staff
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
How influencers helped boost the popularity of Riot Game's Valorant on YouTube and Twitch among Generation Z gamers; Riot says 70% of Valorant players are Gen Z

Earlier Picks

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Eradicating the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw, which hackers exploited to launch record-setting DDoS attacks, requires patching virtually every web server globally
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US NLRB alleges that X illegally fired an employee in November 2022 in retaliation for her posts challenging the company's RTO policy
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