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AI development will likely move faster and be more dispersed and less controlled after a failed coup at OpenAI, accelerating what the coup was trying to prevent — Failed coups, as seen at OpenAI, often accelerate the thing that they were trying to prevent — Over the past week, OpenAI's board went through four CEOs in five days.
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Forums: r/neoliberal and Beehaw
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those — Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.
More: Business Insider, PCMag, Yahoo News, Engadget, CNN, Times of India, Mashable, NewsBytes, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and New York Post
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money: |
A look at Binance and CZ's “Bond villain” compliance strategy and how their settlements will allow the US to deflate Binance while minimizing collateral damage — James Bond films have a certain formula to them. It is more interesting when seen from the perspective of the villain.
More: Financial Times and Cryptopolitan
Threads: @carnage4life and @carnage4life
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Buttcoin
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally — A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales …
More: PYMNTS.com, Adobe for Business, CNBC, Bloomberg, PCMag, The Economic Times, Business Insider, The Information, PhoneArena, New York Post, The Messenger, International Business Times, and diginomica
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more — The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network …
Mastodon: @malwarejake@infosec.exchange and @dyckron@mstdn.ca
Forums: r/chipdesign, r/worldnews, r/gadgets, r/hacking, r/Netherlands, r/technology, r/technews, and r/ADVChina
| New York Times: |
Internal docs: X may lose ~$75M in ad revenue by 2023 end as Amazon, Microsoft, and other major brands halted or consider halting ads; X says it may lose $11M — Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or may do so, after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
More: Engadget, The Messenger, New York Post, The Information, CoinGape, Mashable, PCMag, Moneycontrol, The Hill, Gizchina, and Cryptopolitan
Threads: @vvrkshop.art, @adhutch26, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @profgalloway, @tobybartlett, @datadrivenmd, @drewharwell, and @karaswisher. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @rakeshlobster, @dougjballoon, @cpo10za, @donpark, @this_liss, @peterkropotki16, @rmac18, @jason_kint, @blowryontv, @nash076, @zackbornstein, @justingallivan, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @profcarroll, @chronotope, and @rmac18
Forums: r/inthenews, r/TheLib, and r/EnoughMuskSpam
| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
A look at Replicator, a Pentagon initiative expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is reliable enough to deploy, including on weaponized systems — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones …
More: Cryptopolitan. Threads: @nafo_marvin. X: @mikepesoli and @fbajak
LinkedIn: Francis Syms and Patrick Biltgen
Forums: r/singularity, r/Futurology, and Slashdot
| Lavender Au / Wired: |
A look at the growing usage of social media apps like Douyin among the elderly in China since the COVID-19 lockdowns, often to find companionship — As smartphone costs fall and society becomes more atomized, China's elderly are using apps like Douyin to find connection and companionship.| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
Russia's interior ministry adds Meta's spokesperson Andy Stone to its wanted list, according to state-owned news agency TASS — The reason Andy Stone was added to the list was not indicated, according to the Russian news agency. — Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesperson …
More: Blaze Media, The Verge, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, India Today, Reuters, and Livemint
| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000 — Someone accidentally paid over $3 million in fees to send $2 million in BTC. — A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly made a costly mistake …
More: Cryptopolitan, Blockchain.com, Web3 is Going Just Great, Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, New.blicio.us, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin Insider, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin News, Cryptonews, CryptoSlate, The Block, CryptoPotato, The Crypto Basic, and NullTX
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @whale_alert, @whalewire, @udiwertheimer, @richardheartwin, @pierre_crypt0, and @0xjaypeg
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A look at Shein's NYC pop-up store, which resembled its website and may have only reinforced Shein's image of being quick, cheap, and not quite as it seems — The Shein pop-up store in New York this month resembled the e-commerce giant's website, except picture-perfect.| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Q&A with Slack CTO Cal Henderson on how the pandemic changed Slack and workplace habits, acquisition by Salesforce, generative AI, India market, and more — The pandemic accelerated changes that were already happening in the workplace and took us forward five or 10 years in terms of workplace habits …
X: @chandrarsrikant and @chandrarsrikant
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