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Cybersecurity firm Okta's stock closes down 11.57% after the company said a hacker accessed its support system using a stolen credential and viewed client files — - Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.
More: Krebs on Security, Investor's Business Daily, TechCrunch, The Information, CRN, PCMag, Bloomberg, The Cloudflare Blog, San Francisco Business Journal, SecurityWeek, and Dark Reading
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X: @dnlongen, @marceloplima, @gn3mes1s, @seanwrightsec, @beyondtrust, @marcmaiffret, @kimzetter, and @kimzetter
LinkedIn: Sanjay Patel, Evan Schuman, Jay Meier, Andrew Jaquith, and Brian Krebs
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X plans to launch two new premium tiers: a lower cost tier with all the features but no reduction in ads, and a more expensive tier with no ads — Elon Musk today said that X (formerly Twitter) is going to soon launch two new premium tiers, confirming previous reports and code sightings.
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| Davide Castelvecchi / Nature: |
IBM researchers unveil a “brain-inspired” NorthPole chip prototype that removes the need to frequently access external memory while consuming vastly less power — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — A brain-inspired computer chip …
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LinkedIn: Bert Verrycken, Farhad Mafie, Calvin Wong, MBA, MSDS, Darin Hitchings, Ph.D., and Christian H. Steinmetz
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| The Irish Times: |
Google, Meta, Intel, Siemens, and other companies pull out of Web Summit 2023, after the event co-founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave, accused Israel of war crimes — Intel, Siemens and actor Gillian Anderson previously said they were withdrawing — Google and Facebook-owner Meta have become …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Q&A with Chris Cox on Meta's plans to incorporate generative AI into its apps, making AI chatbots with personality, like a Snoop Dogg dungeon master, and more — Chief Product Officer Chris Cox on the ways artificial intelligence can improve group chats and why Meta is creating AI chatbots with personalities
X: @joannastern
| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Why LLMs, which don't induce an algorithm that computes multiplication, still don't truly understand multiplication no matter how much data they are trained on — No matter how much data you train them on, they still don't truly understand multiplication. — Some Reply Guy on X assured me yesteday that “transformers can multiply”.
More: arXiv.org and VentureBeat
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| Willa Rowe / Inverse: |
Doug Bowser on how Nintendo Account may help Switch users move to the next console, Nintendo's game development approach, why Nintendo has no unions, and more — Video game consoles come and go, but the Nintendo Switch is forever. At least, that's how it sometimes seems.
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Forums: r/Games, r/NintendoSwitch, and r/nintendo
| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia Research announces Eureka, an AI agent powered by GPT-4 that autonomously writes reward algorithms to teach robots to perform complex skills like a human — Nvidia Research announced today that it has developed a new AI agent, called Eureka, that is powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and can autonomously teach robots complex skills.
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LinkedIn: Hung (Leo) Chan, Ph.D, Anoop M., Hyoun Park, Benjamin Scheuer, Surya Prabha Vadlamani, Iman Zadeh, and Sharon Goldman. Forums: r/singularity
| Alexander Lee / Digiday: |
Holding company GameSquare acquires FaZe Clan, valuing the Texas-based esports company at ~$16M, down from a $725M market cap at its SPAC merger in July 2022 — FaZe Clan's billion-dollar journey has taken an unexpected — but perhaps inevitable — turn. Burned by controversy and facing …
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| New York Times: |
A look at Cameo's peak during the pandemic and subsequent fall due to its trouble recruiting big stars, CEO Steven Galanis' unfocused management style, and more — A start-up that offers fans a way to buy personalized videos from celebrities was supercharged by pandemic boredom and venture capital.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta releases Habitat 3.0, a simulator that supports robots and humanoid avatars for collaboration, and HomeRobot, a home robot hardware and software platform — Researchers from Meta Platforms Inc.'s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research team said today they're releasing …
More: Meta, Meta Research on GitHub, TechCrunch, Meta, Meta Research on GitHub, Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset on Hugging Face, and Robots.net
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino, who became the stablecoin operator's unofficial frontman on social media and has been appointed as CEO from December 2023 — - Stablecoin firm plans for real-time reserves data from 2024 — USDT's circulation has continued to grow during crypto crisis| New York Times: |
News publishers scramble to adjust to declining referral traffic, as Meta, X, and even Google become less dependable at amplifying and supporting journalism — News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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