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23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts — On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals.
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Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led to revealing training data — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, after announcing the feature in September 2020 — Meta is beginning the process of disconnecting the ability to have “cross-app chats” with your Instagram contacts via Facebook Messenger and vice-versa.
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The conversational nature of AI chatbots makes them more trustworthy, which could result in problems including “hidden exploitation” and outright fraud — I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely.
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google upgrades Gmail's spam filters with RETVec, a text vectorizer that understands “adversarial text manipulations” like emojis, typos, and special characters — Gmail's spam filters can now understand “adversarial text manipulations.” — The latest post on the Google …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Rockstar releases the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, set in a fictional Miami, featuring a male and a female protagonist, set to be released in 2025 — Crime-themed franchise is among the most successful in video-game history — Rockstar Games released the first trailer …
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| Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country's companies to meet AI chip demand — - Nvidia CEO seeks local partnerships to build ‘AI factories’ — Japan can create own AI infrastructure, Nvidia CEO says
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| Louis Columbus / VentureBeat: |
Researchers scanned public repos and found 1,681 exposed Hugging Face API tokens belonging to Meta, Microsoft, Google, and others, many with write permissions — Further validating how brittle the security of generative AI models and their platforms are, Lasso Security helped Hugging Face dodge …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
NYC-based generative AI video startup Runway partners with Getty Images on an AI video model, shipping in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising — Runway ML, the New York City video AI startup backed by Google and Nvidia, continues to entrench itself in the marketplace of the future.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company didn't see much of an “interruption” from Hollywood's strikes and is still targeting a $17B content budget for 2024 — Ted Sarandos is happy the twin Hollywood strikes are over — but the Netflix co-CEO claimed the streamer didn't see significant …
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| Wired: |
An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs covering January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread use of filters to censor the internet, including health info — A WIRED investigation into internet censorship in US schools found widespread use of filters to censor health, identity, and other crucial information.
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| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports November revenue up 18% YoY to ~$20.6B, the first YoY improvement since January 2023, and forecasts Q4 revenue to be better than expected — It was the first year-on-year improvement in monthly results since January, helped by a comparison to last year's disruptions by Covid Zero lockdowns in China.
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