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Document: the G7 plans to agree to a voluntary, 11-point code of conduct on October 30 for companies developing advanced AI systems, seeking to mitigate risks — The Group of Seven industrial countries will on Monday agree a code of conduct for companies developing advanced artificial intelligence systems …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 14 review: an unexciting release for consumers, featuring a lightly customizable lock screen and improved back button functionality — Android 14 offers a lightly customizable lock screen and not much else. — Does anybody care about Android 14?
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| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
ChatGPT Plus users say OpenAI has added an “All Tools” feature and capabilities for analyzing docs like PDFs, potentially sidelining third-party ChatGPT plugins — OpenAI to release updated version of ChatGPT that gives users access all GPT-4 tools - including browsing and DALL
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Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism” — X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform's crowd-sourced fact-checking system …
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| Gary Miller / The Citizen Lab: |
Research details how vulnerabilities in signaling protocols used by mobile network operators for international roaming can be exploited to geolocate devices — Table of Contents — 2. Geolocation Attacks Against Telecommunications Networks — 4. Incentives Enabling Geolocation Attacks
More: The Intercept and Wired
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
An interview with Vinod Khosla on the investor frenzy around AI, why the US should use all the tools at its disposal to win the AI race with China, and more — Many are ‘investing because everybody else is’ and most will lose money, claims Vinod Khosla — Artificial intelligence start-ups … | Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
As Cruise suspends all its driverless operations, a look at the lack of clear federal regulations and fragmented oversight governing self-driving cars in the US — The whiplash from approval to ban in just two months highlights the fragmented oversight governing the fledgling industry
More: MarketWatch, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, ChinaTechNews.com, TechCrunch, and The Last Driver License Holder
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
HackerOne says its bug bounty programs have awarded $300M+ since the platform's inception, with 30 hackers having earned $1M+ and one receiving $4M+ — HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers and vulnerability researchers since the platform's inception.| Steven Kurutz / New York Times: |
A look at blue-collar influencers, including a trucker, a shepherd, and a fisherman, who have amassed large audiences by posting short videos of their workday — A new crop of popular social media personalities includes a trucker, a shepherd and a commercial fisherman.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist Tye Brady on testing Agility's bipedal robot Digit at Amazon, coding robotic systems with CodeWhisperer, and more — A version of this post first appeared in TechCrunch's weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.| The Guardian: |
UK Minister for Policing Chris Philp encourages the police to double its use of retrospective facial recognition software by May 2024 to track down offenders — Policing minister Chris Philp suggests target of more than 200,000 searches over next six months| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Apple's Journal, an incredibly basic journaling app, with an interesting Moments page that uses the Suggestions API to prompt users to add entries — The Apple Journal app is so simple that, at first, it felt like I was missing something. The whole app is just one screen …
More: Android Authority, MacRumors, and iDownloadBlog.com
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