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| David Gilbert / Wired: |
Researchers: Microsoft Copilot answers some political queries in the US and other countries with conspiracies, misinformation, and out-of-date or incorrect info — Research shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft's AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories.| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Cox Media Group claims it can listen to consumers' conversations through microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices and use the data to target ads — A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations …
More: Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Search Engine Land, Fast Company, PhoneArena, Pixel Envy, BGR, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Phandroid, TechSpot, MobileSyrup, Variety, iPhone in Canada Blog, KnowTechie, iMore, and The Messenger
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Bluesky: @epro.social, @datanerd.bsky.social, and @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social
X: @jason_kint, @inregray, @iwschlom, @bettinaboomboom, @jsrailton, @supersat, @mikko, @heatherkaiserwa, @normative, and @kashhill
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
How Microsoft's 10-year-old Digital Crime Unit uses unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors — Ten years in, Microsoft's DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company's technical reach … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DocuSign is working with advisers to explore a sale; DocuSign went public in 2018 and now has a $12B+ market cap; DOCU closes up 12.46% — Suitors for the $11 billion company could include private equity and technology firms — E-signature company DocuSign is working with advisers …
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Reuters
| Forbes: |
Google says it will no longer respond to geofence warrants after making changes to how Google Maps stores and accesses users' opt-in Location History — “Geofence warrants,” which allow law enforcement to get location data across a wide area, have become commonplace in recent years.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging Apple misrepresented the way that third-party app subscriptions worked with Family Sharing — Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing, and will pay out $25 million to put an end to the case.
More: KCC Class Action Services LLC, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Business Times, AppleInsider, and Cord Cutters News. Forums: MacRumors
| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
iOS 17.2 closes off Flipper Zero devices' ability to carry out DoS attacks on iPhones within a 30-foot radius by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests — Apple has finally closed off the ability of the Flipper Zero pen-testing tool to flood iPhones with so many popups that the handset would lock up and require a reboot.
More: The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, Gizmodo, and Supercharged. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk verbally guaranteed some US banks that they would not lose money on the Twitter deal; banks face serious losses on the “uninvestable” debt — Banks are facing serious losses on the debt as social media platform's business deteriorates
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Docs: ByteDance used OpenAI's API to develop its own LLM, codenamed Project Seed; employees discussed “whitewashing” the evidence through “data desensitization” — TikTok's entrancing “For You” feed made its parent company, ByteDance, an AI leader on the world stage.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
YouTube creators MrBeast and Chucky Appleby launch ViewStats, which uses the YouTube API to unveil detailed stats about channels for creators and fans, in beta — The top YouTuber in the U.S., MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) co-founded the new analytics platform ViewStats, which is now available in beta.| Stacy Elliott / Decrypt: |
Crypto wallet maker Ledger updates Connect Kit to remove some malicious code, live for five hours, after a former employee “fell victim to a phishing attack” — Crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger has confirmed an exploit that led it to warn users to “stop using dapps” …
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Days after updating its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, Twitch rescinds the “artistic nudity” portion, citing “community concern” — Mere days after Twitch updated its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: more Chinese government agencies and state-backed firms have ordered staff to stop bringing iPhones, Samsung phones, and other foreign devices to work — - Agencies from Beijing to Tianjin instruct staff to go local — The formal directives follow a general mandate from months ago| Glenn Fleishman / Retool: |
A look back at Yahoo Pipes, which from 2007 to 2015 let users drag and drop elements in a browser to make data feeds, influencing a generation of UI designers — Want to know whether the latest logged earthquakes were near you? Aggregate 100 top news sites, but only see items that mention cats?
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC rejects Coinbase's petition for formal digital asset rules, because the “existing securities regime appropriately governs crypto asset securities” — The U.S. exchange had formally petitioned the agency to start writing comprehensive crypto rules, but after “careful” consideration, the SEC said no.| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
China proposes a four-tier, color-coded system for data security incidents; for red and orange warnings, companies must notify the government within 10 minutes — China on Friday proposed a four-tier classification to help it respond to data security incidents, highlighting Beijing's concern … | Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
Some X users report seeing ads for apps that use AI to “undress” women in photos; TikTok and Meta have started to block search terms related to “nudify” apps — A week after TikTok and Meta blocked certain search terms related to so-called “nudify” apps, X has not taken the same measures, Motherboard found.
More: 404 Media. Threads: @mattnavarra. Bluesky: @janety.bsky.social. X: @athundt, @davidthewid, @thatstarwarsgrl, @theebonymaw, @bumblejack_, @davbatz, @kevinish, @eshumarneedi, @thechildweb3, @jason_koebler, and @neuwaves
| Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central: |
Microsoft launches its basic Office suite on the Meta Quest store for free, letting all Quests run Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in a mixed reality environment — Now you can tweak spreadsheets while playing Xbox, all in VR. — What you need to know — Meta Quest users can now use Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in VR.
More: The Verge, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, Neowin, and Nick Sutrich on YouTube
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