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Disinformation scholar Joan Donovan claims in a whistleblower filing that her superiors dismissed her after Harvard got Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's $500M gift — In a whistleblower complaint, she breaks her silence over events that unsettled other misinformation researchers
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Spotify lays off ~17% of its workforce, or ~1,500 staff, to “rightsize” its costs, citing slow economic growth and rising capital costs, its third cut in 2023 — Spotify is eliminating about 17% jobs, its third round of layoffs, as the music streaming looks to become “both productive and efficient.”
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
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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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led it to reveal training data — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
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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 …
More: Lasso Security, The Register, Dark Reading, MSPoweruser, and Security Boulevard
| Peter Martin / Bloomberg: |
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says her department needs more money to stop China's chip gains and calls out Nvidia for redesigning around the US' curbs — - US commerce secretary cites Nvidia designs as case in point — Tells chip CEOs ‘such is life’ as US security trumps revenue
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WhatsApp updates its iOS app to let users send photos and videos in their original quality files, start voice chats without ringing in large groups, and more — WhatsApp has just submitted a new stable update for iOS, available on the App Store: the build number is 23.24.73. — What's new in this update?
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, three years after it announced the feature — Meta is beginning the process of disconnecting the ability to have “cross-app chats” with your Instagram contacts via Facebook Messenger and vice-versa.| Financial Times: |
IBM announces 10 quantum computing projects, focusing mainly on areas like simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science — Use of technology to solve scientific problems still falls short of commercialisation — Quantum computing is starting to fulfil …
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LinkedIn: Michael Mojica and Sebastian Krause
| The Guardian: |
Investigation: Russia- and China-linked hackers targeted UK nuclear site Sellafield with sleeper malware as far back as 2015; data loss extent is still unknown — Exclusive: Malware may still be present and potential effects have been covered up by staff, investigation reveals
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Generative AI video startup Runway ML partners with Getty Images on a new AI video model available 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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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which supplies 90%+ of the silica to polish wafers, sinking deeper into debt by refusing to raise its prices to cover capex — - Fuso Chemical says lifting prices would be betraying customers — Osaka firm dominates in chip silica but struggles with capexSponsor Posts
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