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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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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @johnwilander, @baxiabhishek, @ashleyrcarman, @ericjackson, @conorsen, @bobafatt, @juanpflores_, @sarafischer, @treyals, @nath_brudenell, @mhbergen, @treyals, @ashleyrcarman, @ryan_browne_, @rbillsimmonspod, and @lisaabramowicz1
LinkedIn: Ian Whittaker, Jennifer Haack, Daniel Tunkelang, and Mike Wolber
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and Slashdot
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
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| 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.
More: The Verge, Axios, Gizmodo, The Messenger, TechRadar, RestorePrivacy, New.blicio.us, Times of India, Cybernews.com, and Reclaim The Net
Mastodon: @andrewabernathy … and @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @waxmonkey.bsky.social
X: @snlyngaas and @lorenzofb
| 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
More: PCMag, Engadget, ZDNet, The Messenger, Stack Diary, and Business Insider
| 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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Forums: r/technology and r/NVDA_Stock
| 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: The Register, Lasso Security, Dark Reading, Security Boulevard, and MSPoweruser
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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?
More: MacRumors, The Verge, Engadget, ZDNet, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, KnowTechie, 9to5Mac, International Business Times, iClarified, WRAL TechWire, and Gadgets Now. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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
| 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.
More: Runway, The Decoder, and PetaPixel
| 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.
More: PCMag, Engadget, and Instagram Help Center
Threads: @bored_soul, @russello_alex, and @joenandez. Bluesky: @gurupanguji.bsky.social. X: @bytemydrive
| 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
More: Reuters, Tech Monitor, and The Sun
Mastodon: @AAKL@noc.social. X: @tommy___greene, @lukolejnik, @annaisaac, @mralexlawson, @humbleetc, @tommy___greene, @zdboren, and @alanferrier
Forums: r/worldnews and r/unitedkingdom
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising €450M in a round valuing the OpenAI rival around $2B; a16z is in talks to provide €200M in funding — - French AI startup is set to raise about €450 million in round — Adviser Cedric O is among insiders set to sell partial stakesSponsor Posts
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