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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
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Instagram head Adam Mosseri says Threads is working on an API, despite concerns that “it'll mean a lot more publisher content and not much more creator content” — Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give chance to developers …
More: The Verge, Engadget, Hindustan Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Economic Times, PCMag, Gizchina, Mashable, Scripting News, and The Verge
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HackerOne says its bug bounty programs have awarded $300M+ in rewards 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 … | 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: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Last Driver License Holder, Associated Press, The Verge, Mercury News, and Wall Street Journal
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
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 … | 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
More: Cryptopolitan, ChinaTechNews.com, and ComputerWeekly.com
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A look at the hard right tilt of X, which once served as the hub of real-time news and global debate, and how its political shift could intensify business woes — The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.” He has succeeded at only one of those goals.
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LinkedIn: Rob Archer, Andrei Tarnea, and Eric Anderson
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AI fakes related to the Israel-Hamas war have been limited and unconvincing, but the possibility of such fakes circulating leads some to dismiss genuine content — Fakes related to the conflict have been limited and largely unconvincing, but their presence has people doubting real evidence.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at physics-informed machine learning approaches, which are in the early stages and can help AI tackle hard problems in robotics, science, and engineering — Adding what we know about the real world to artificial intelligence can make it more effective at solving some of the hardest and most essential problems| Emily Parker / CoinDesk: |
Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins, starting with a law that took effect in June 2023 and has terms to protect the assets underlying stablecoins — Japan's new law tries to address one of the biggest fears about major stablecoins: Do issuers really have the assets to back them?
More: Blockworks. X: @emy_wng, @moo9000, and @jp_koning
LinkedIn: yousef Ibrahim, Emily Parker, Matthew Ketchum, and Jason Gottlieb
| Chloe Cornish / Financial Times: |
Sources: Byju's plans to sell Epic, acquired for $500M, to settle debts after defaulting on a $1.2B loan, and may also sell Great Learning, acquired for $600M — Online education company was once India's most valuable start-up but now plans asset sales to settle debts
LinkedIn: Amit Gupta
| 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: TweakTown, Android Authority, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, and AppleInsider News
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