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Sam Altman claims “deep learning worked”, superintelligence may be “a few thousand days” away, and “astounding triumphs” will incrementally become commonplace — In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: a US arbitrator awards a full severance package to an ex-Twitter staffer who was laid off when Musk took over, the first such resolution of 2K+ complaints — Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform …
More: Wccftech. Threads: @kurtwag8, @kurtwag8, and @karaswisher. Bluesky: @carljanderson.bsky.social
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find that UltraAV was installed remotely to replace Kaspersky on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV owner Pango — Customers of Kaspersky antivirus in the United States found out in the last few days that their cybersecurity software …
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| Jeff Stone / Bloomberg: |
Telegram says it will give users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in response to valid legal requests, changing its ToS to deter criminal activity — - Telegram to provide user data in response to legal requests — Durov faces charges in France for crimes committed on his app
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
US intelligence officials say Russia, Iran, and China are using AI tools to boost US election influence efforts, with Russia's efforts being the most aggressive — American intelligence officials say Moscow's efforts, aimed mostly at undermining Harris, are the most aggressive.
More: Cybernews.com, CNN, Reuters, NPR, ODNI, The Crypto Times, Washington Examiner, USA Today, ABC News, Benzinga, and Cryptopolitan
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Kaspersky finds a new Necro malware version in Google Play apps with 11M+ total downloads; in 2019, researchers found Necro in Play apps with 100M+ downloads — The Necro trojan was found in two Android applications in Google Play with a combined downloads count of over 11 million.
More: BleepingComputer, Securelist, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, Tom's Guide, The Register, How-To Geek, PCMag, and Forbes. Forums: r/technews
| New York Times: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the Phone-Free Schools Act, which will require schools to restrict cellphone use during school hours by July 1, 2026 — Calls for crackdowns have mounted with reports of cyberbullying and studies indicating that smartphones are harmful to children's mental health.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
TikTok says it plans to shut down TikTok Music on November 28 and will delete customer data; the app, originally called Resso, first launched in 2019 — TikTok Music will go offline on Nov. 28 and customer data will be deleted, the music division said in a post on its website.| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
A teardown of Huawei's popular Qingyun L540 laptop, which relies on some foreign tech, reveals the challenges ahead for China's tech self-sufficiency efforts — A look inside the bestselling Qingyun L540 shows how the campaign to use locally made components is progressing| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Source: Meta plans to launch the voices of Judi Dench, Kristen Bell, John Cena, Awkwafina, and Keegan-Michael Key for its Meta AI chatbot at Connect this week — Facebook owner Meta Platforms (META.O) is planning to announce this week that it has secured deals with actors including Judi Dench … | Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
A profile of Goldman Sachs' head of stock research Jim Covello, who has become Wall Street's leading AI skeptic after joining the bank in 2000 as a tech analyst — Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs's head of stock research, warned that building too much of what the world doesn't need “typically ends badly.”| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Celestia Foundation, which is behind the Celestia modular blockchain network, raised $100M led by Bain Capital Crypto, taking its total raised to $155M — - The organization behind the modular blockchain network has raised $100 million in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto, bringing its total financing to $155 million.| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Cloudflare rolls out Bot Management, a suite of free AI auditing tools meant to help monitor and selectively block AI data-scraping bots, to all its customers — “The path we're on isn't sustainable,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells WIRED, in reference to rampant AI scraping.| Astha Rajvanshi / TIME: |
Q&A with Vinod Khosla on investing in AI and OpenAI, AI risks, the impact of AI in the labor market, regulation, dominance within the global AI race, and more — When Vinod Khosla had a skiing accident in 2011 that led to an ACL injury in his knee, doctors gave conflicting opinions over his treatment.| US Department of State: |
The US, Meta, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI launch the Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI to advance “sustainable” AI development — Today in New York City, on the margins of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly …
| New York Times: |
How WhatsApp Channels, launched in late 2023, are driving traffic to digital news outlets, especially readers from outside the US, as social media traffic falls — An illustration of a man sitting on a green chair reading a newspaper called “World News” as he looks at his phone behind it.Jackson Gibbs
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
On its Chinese website, Huawei says its HarmonyOS now has 10,000 apps and meta-services; the latest HarmonyOS update blocked the ability to install Android apps — After a few years of building out “HarmonyOS,” Huawei's latest update has finally blocked the ability to install Android apps at all …
More: Gizchina.com, Android Police, The Intelligence, Android Headlines, Huawei Central, and Gizmochina. Forums: r/Huawei
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Access Now and 24+ others wrote to Pavel Durov in late 2021 asking Telegram to add transparent content rules, an appeals process, and more; Durov didn't respond — Users complained about the site to Pavel Durov three years before he was charged with spreading criminal activity| Niclas Rolander / Bloomberg: |
Swedish prosecutors say Iran was behind 15K text messages sent on August 1, 2023 to sow fear in Sweden, asking recipients to exact revenge after Koran burnings — Sweden uncovered an Iranian hacking operation to send text messages in a bid to sow fear in the Nordic country.
More: Al Jazeera, Le Monde.fr, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Reuters, The Times of Israel, and Associated Press. Forums: r/europe
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller on Arc Search being an operating system, competing with Chrome and Safari, monetization, AI, and more — The Browser Company cofounder thinks it's time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web.
Threads: @joshmcconnell
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