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November 13, 2023, 11:40 AM

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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Sam Altman expects “to raise a lot more over time” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs  —  Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware  —  Lawsuit attributes the alleged scheme to hackers in India and Vietnam  —  Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest …
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
Nvidia announces the H200, an update to its standalone H100 accelerator that swaps 5.3Gbps/pin HBM3 memory for 6.5Gbps/pin HBM3E memory and ships in Q2 2024  —  With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory.
Maddie Stone / The Verge:
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks  —  Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California's right-to-repair law.  But software locks and other obstacles seem …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
In a first, researchers show a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise  —  An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key.  —  For the first time …
Will Greenwald / PCMag:
Sony PlayStation Portal review: a limited, expensive gaming handheld with a mediocre screen that does little besides enable Remote Play streaming from a PS5  —  A remote handheld for your PlayStation 5 … Many gaming accessories serve specific purposes, catering to a user base by performing a single task extremely well.
Axios:
The Block sells an 80% stake to Singaporean VC Foresight Ventures, valuing the crypto outlet at $70M and freeing the business from its financial ties to FTX  —  Crypto media company The Block sold a majority stake to Singaporean venture capital firm Foresight Ventures in a deal valuing the crypto outlet at $70 million.

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