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Researchers from Apple and Columbia University released Ferret, an open source multimodal LLM that can recognize and describe any shape in an image, in October — With little fanfare, researchers from Apple and Columbia University released an open source multimodal LLM, called Ferret, in October 2023.
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| Jeremy White / New York Times: |
Researchers extract business and personal email addresses for 30+ NYT staff by fine tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo, bypassing the safeguards for privacy-related queries — This is a visualization of a large email database from the Enron Corporation, which is often used to train artificial intelligence systems, like ChatGPT.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Sam Altman's history at Loopt and Y Combinator, where his side activities and personal projects riled colleagues and forced his departure from YC — The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he's rebounded to greater heights
More: Business Insider, Washington Post, and Fortune
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: an updated Chameleon trojan uses an HTML page trick to disrupt biometrics on Android like Face Unlock to steal PINs and unlock the device at will — The Chameleon Android banking trojan has re-emerged with a new version that uses a tricky technique to take over devices … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Ubisoft is investigating reports of a new security breach after security research collective VX-Underground shared screenshots of the company's internal tools — Ubisoft is investigating whether it suffered a breach after images of the company's internal software and developer tools were leaked online.
More: Security Affairs, Mashable, PCMag, Engadget, Game Rant, Bloomberg, My Nintendo News, Wccftech, and The Record
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
China approves 105 local games, including titles from Tencent and NetEase, after the announcement of a new set of restrictions led to a $80B rout last week — - Beijing approves games, seeks feedback on new restrictions — Tencent and NetEase shares plunged on Friday on crackdown fear
More: Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
A look at TikTok Shop, as big companies shun the e-commerce app, which has a clunky interface and is full of dubious merchandise, like a $50 plastic fork — At best, the social platform's e-commerce arm is full of random impulse buys and silly trinkets. At worst, it's a breeding ground for bad actors and shady products.| Edd Gent / IEEE Spectrum: |
Experts warn against unrealistic expectations for quantum computers, citing the challenges in making fault-tolerant systems, qubits' slow operating speeds, more — Hype is everywhere, skeptics say, and practical applications are still far away — The quantum computer revolution …
More: New.blicio.us, Bloomberg, Wired, and HPCwire
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| Ethan Zuckerman: |
A study estimates that there are 13.3B+ videos on YouTube, of which 4B+ were posted to the platform in 2023, and the median YouTube video has 39 views — I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”.
More: Journal of Quantitative …. Threads: @ethanzuckerman, @lightedframe, and @pauladamsmith. Bluesky: @becca.gomezfarrell.com
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk is fielding complaints about Grok giving liberal responses on diversity, transgender rights, and inequality, despite promising an “anti-woke” chatbot — Grok, launched this month on X, has angered conservatives by endorsing diversity. Musk says he's trying to fix it.
More: The Decoder, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Election Law Blog, and Business Insider
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Yi He, a former talk-show host, who co-founded Binance with Changpeng Zhao and has sweeping control over its marketing and investment divisions — Yi He, a former talk-show host, has sweeping control over the crypto giant's marketing and investment divisions.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
A look at Take-Two's $12B Zynga deal in 2022, just as casual games peaked post pandemic, Apple introduced ATT, and the mobile game market headed into a downturn — Video-game giant's push into smartphone titles was expensive and late. — Excitement over the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI …
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