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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for almost a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is ~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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some executives and board members fear that Elon Musk's use of LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms, ketamine, and other drugs 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: Bloomberg, The Messenger, Business Insider, and New York Post
Threads: @kirsten.grind, @datadrivenmd, @pkafka, @karaswisher, and @crumbler
X: @wsj, @emilyglazer, @silvermanjacob, @wbhub, and @parismarx
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A defense of AI hallucinations, which can spur creativity and, by requiring fact-checks, act as a firewall in the transition to coexist with 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: @vortexegg.regretfully.online, @rjcc.bsky.social, and @manpageman.bsky.social. LinkedIn: Steven Levy
| IEEE Spectrum: |
How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims — This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
More: Tom's Hardware and Marcus on AI
Bluesky: @tylerking.bsky.social and @clemens.vasters.com
LinkedIn: Paul Dongha PhD, Valliappa Lakshmanan, and Rafael Brown
| 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, Cryptopolitan, Dave Inc., CoinGape, and crypto.news. X: @ftxreloaded
| 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| A Martínez / NPR: |
An interview with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the state's efforts to curb AI-manufactured deceptions ahead of the upcoming 2024 US elections — NPR's A Martinez talks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the use of artificial intelligence to curb AI-manufactured threats …
More: Gizmodo
| 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: Engadget and Social Media Today
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: DataBreaches.net, New.blicio.us, and HotHardware
| 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 and Ars Technica
| Washington Post: |
Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft — A lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of violating the New York Times's copyright. But the law is anything but clear.
More: IEEE Spectrum, Law Offices of Kate Downing, Reuters, Engadget, Neowin, PCMag, Windows Central, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, Business Today, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, NBC News, International Business Times, and PYMNTS.com
Threads: @carnage4life and @willoremus
Mastodon: @MattHodges@mastodon.social and @willoremus@mastodon.social
X: @newsalliance and @washingtonpost
| 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
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