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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is about 30% less than in 2022 — U.S. national security officials have raised concerns about North Korea's use of stolen crypto to develop nuclear weapons. — Register Now| Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: |
Neobank Dave has reached an agreement to pay $71M to FTX liquidators to buy back a $100M convertible promissory note it issued to FTX Ventures in 2022 — Fintech firm Dave will purchase a convertible promissory note worth $100 million at a discounted rate, paying $71 million to FTX liquidators.
More: Crowdfund Insider, Cryptonews, Dave Inc., Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, crypto.news, and Fortune. X: @ftxreloaded
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A defense of AI hallucinations, which can spur human creativity and, by forcing users to fact-check, act as a firewall in the transition to superintelligent AI — It's a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @rjcc.bsky.social, @vortexegg.regretfully.online, and @manpageman.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Steven Levy
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some executives and board members at companies run by Elon Musk fear his use of drugs, including LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy, could harm his companies — Some executives and board members fear the billionaire's use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies
More: New York Post. Threads: @pkafka, @datadrivenmd, @kirsten.grind, @crumbler, and @karaswisher
Mastodon: @igb@mastodon.hccp.org and @FuckElon@mastodon.social
X: @emilyglazer, @wsj, @wbhub, @silvermanjacob, and @parismarx
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks and should get “much better over the next few weeks” — Adam Mosseri says that Threads has had some issues with what he calls “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks.
More: Social Media Today and Engadget
Threads: @mosseri, @tomwarrenuk, @scottbeale, @corndog_apologetics, @admartinezjr, @mmcfly566, @lozrex, @morganross524, @antookane, @edzitron, @craiggrannell, @heilrath, @honestly.wilde, @john.lee.insta, @parkermolloy, @oneunderscore__, and @mmasnick
Mastodon: @glinden@sigmoid.social, @robstahlnecker@mastodon …, and @shoq@mastodon.social
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Google downplays reports of malware abusing an undocumented Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies, saying such token theft attacks “are not new” — Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies when previously stolen ones have expired.
More: New.blicio.us, HotHardware, and TechCircle
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps — Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and other scams.
More: PCMag, Ars Technica, Security Boulevard, and Cryptonews
| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance aren't keen on buying Nvidia's lower-powered AI chips and are shifting some orders to Huawei's China-made chips — Chinese buyers are pushing back against the lower-powered AI chips it hopes to sell to them in response to U.S. export curbs
X: @wsj and @jchengwsj
| Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: |
Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy — I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory. Now I can't hold back anymore.
More: The Register, The Verge, and New.blicio.us
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Midjourney v6: generates highly detailed images that sometimes seem unrealistic, a different approach to prompting compared to v5, and more — As Midjourney rolls out new features, it continues to make some artists furious. — In December, just before Christmas …
More: New.blicio.us, The Decoder, and Watcher Guru
| Ann Carrns / New York Times: |
The US IRS starts testing its free, “mobile friendly” direct e-filing system with some low- and moderate-income taxpayers in 12 US states — Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet certain criteria. But the agency's plans have already met resistance from tax preparation companies.| Financial Times: |
Source: the British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October cyberattack that rendered most of its services inaccessible — London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services
More: The Guardian, The Guardian, and Independent.ie
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