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Sources: Nvidia has begun designing ARM CPUs for Windows PCs, and AMD also plans to build ARM chips; source: Nvidia and AMD could start selling them in 2025 — Nvidia (NVDA.O) dominates the market for artificial intelligence computing chips. Now it is coming after Intel's longtime stronghold of personal computers.
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LinkedIn: Jonathan Lishawa, Cesar Berardini, Stephen Nellis, and Shun YAO
Forums: Hacker News, r/pcgaming, r/wallstreetbets, r/hardware, r/nvidia, r/AMD_Stock, r/NVDA_Stock, and Beehaw
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
1Password detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance for managing employee-facing apps but “found no compromise of user data or other sensitive systems” — 1Password CTO says investigation found no compromise of user data or sensitive systems.
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| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers' tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data — The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
More: Mashable, arXiv.org, VentureBeat, Bitcoin Insider, and Gizmodo
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LinkedIn: Alan Berkson, Dr. Kobi Abayomi, Ana Brzezińska, James Bentley, Mike Jackson, Ursula O'Connor, and Christopher Bretz
Forums: Hacker News, r/IsaacArthur, r/artificial, and r/ArtistHate
| NBC News: |
The White House designates 31 communities across the US as regional Tech Hubs that can compete for $40M to $75M each in grants, under the CHIPS and Science Act — The hubs are located in 32 states and Puerto Rico and will be able to compete for $40 million to $75 million each in grants.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta is “listening to feedback” after some users noticed the company is cross-posting Threads posts to users' Facebook feeds without offering an opt-out option — The company said it's “listening to feedback” about the feature. — Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at POSSE, a decade-old idea that a user should Publish (on your) Own Site and Syndicate Elsewhere, and the challenges of building a system based on that — The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody.
More: Scripting News and Tantek Çelik
Threads: @rockatalic and @chris
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
AI experts share a paper ahead of the UK's AI summit in Bletchley Park warning of worrying capabilities in current AI systems and seeking urgent governance — Authors and academics also warn development of advanced systems ‘utterly reckless’ without safety checks
More: Metaverse Post, Reuters, and Managing AI Risks
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Streaming services, including Hulu, Peacock, and Max, are increasingly showing “pause ads”, which appear a few seconds after a viewer pauses the programming — Time for a different sort of commercial break. — Any subscriber to the ad-supported version of Hulu is bound …
More: ComingSoon.net. X: @bristei, @bristei, and @newley
Forums: r/technology, r/television, r/cordcutters, and r/popculturechat
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
PimEyes, a paid facial recognition service, blocks searches of children's faces via age detection AI to identify photos of minors, as part of a “no harm policy” — The change came in response to worries that the service could be used nefariously by a stranger.| Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION: |
Tyler Cowen announces econgoat.ai, the first “generative book” that lets readers query the material and create more content, derived from a 100K-word manuscript — I am pleased to announce and present my new project, available here, free of charge.
More: goatgreatesteconomistofalltime …, EconForEverybody, and Kevin Drum
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| Bloomberg: |
Byju's CFO Ajay Goel resigns after six months as the edtech delays its FY 2022 earnings; Byju's President of Finance Nitin Golani takes over on October 30 — - Goel will return to Vedanta after six months as Byju's CFO — Byju's appoints Nitin Golani as India chief finance officer
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Instagram is testing a toggle in its app that lets users only see posts from Meta Verified subscribers, as “a way for businesses and creators to get discovered” — Instagram is testing a toggle that lets you only see posts from Meta Verified users, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Monday.
More: Ghacks, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, The Information, and PetaPixel
Threads: @quillmatiq, @deirdre.assenza, and @chris
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says big-money deals with top livestreaming gamers is not a “sustainable business”; sources: YouTube is also backing away from such deals — Leaders pull back from seven-, eight-figure contracts while upstart Kick forges ahead in some cases.
More: Dexerto, Polygon, and Dot Esports
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Hands-on with DALL-E 3: suggests more detailed prompts, restrictive, denies art requests in the style of living artists, and shows how quickly AI is improving — To understand how quickly AI is improving, forget ChatGPT — use an image generator — Earlier this month … | Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out passkey support in its iOS app and the web, letting users log in via their devices' biometrics, and says support for Android is “coming soon” — Amazon's rolling out passkey support for its online site and mobile shopping apps.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at YouTube's negotiations with record labels over an AI tool that lets creators perform using major musicians' voices, a pivotal moment for AI in music — Negotiations between the video site and record labels could be a key moment in the spread of AI technology.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok tests letting users upload 15-minute videos, after raising its maximum video limit to 10 minutes in February 2022, to attract longer-form video creators — TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 15 minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.| Kim Na-young / Yonhap News Agency: |
South Korea-based Naver signs a 2024 to 2029 deal with Saudi Arabia to build digital twins of Riyadh, Medina, Jeddah, Dammam, and Mecca, sources say for $100M+ — South Korean tech giant Naver Corp. said Tuesday it has struck a deal with the Saudi Arabian government to create a digital twin platform … | Chainalysis: |
From July 2022 to June 2023, the US led the world with $1T+ in “value received on chain”, but most stablecoin inflows to top services went via non-US exchanges — This post is an excerpt from our 2023 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report. Download your copy now!Sponsor Posts
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