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Anthropic evaluates four “sabotage” threat vectors for its Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models and finds that “minimal mitigations are sufficient” — Any industry where there are potential harms needs evaluations. Nuclear power stations have continuous radiation monitoring …
More: TechCrunch, Anthropic, WinBuzzer, and Cointelegraph
| Daysia Tolentino / NBC News: |
After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets — YouTube channels are gaining more mainstream attention — but some in the digital entertainment industry think growth should require better oversight.
X: @nbcbayarea and @nbcwashington
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen restrictions on sales of chipmaking equipment to China or risk facing US curbs on Japanese companies — - China Committee leaders write to Japan's ambassador to US — Failure to act risks new US limits on Japanese firms, they say
More: Financial Times and Select Committee on the CCP
| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Six months after the bitcoin halving, some miners hold their bitcoin, while others spend more on developing AI data centers and see the largest stock gains — - Shares of firms keeping tokens they mint are lagging Bitcoin — Best performers are spending on developing AI data centers| Wall Street Journal: |
How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions — Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists can't get enough.
More: TESLARATI and The Mirror
| Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: |
Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics, replaces Quest 3's depth sensor with two IR flood illuminators, and more — The Quest 3S is a curious device. I think we were all expecting a budget version of the Quest 3, but that's not quite what this headset is.
More: iFixit on YouTube, TechEBlog, Lon.TV on YouTube, The Verge, IGN, Gizmodo, and XR Today
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| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on how internet traffic surge during COVID helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, internet balkanization, more — I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt.| Bloomberg: |
Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools — About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.
More: Chalkbeat. Mastodon: @DrYohanJohn@fediscience.org and @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
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LinkedIn: Jackie Davalos, Darren Coxon, NS Ramnath, Adam Garry, and Szymon Machajewski
Forums: r/technology, r/Professors, and r/OpenAI
| K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg: |
DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it a Chinese military company, says the DOD didn't engage on the issue for over 16 months — - US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
More: The Verge, Reuters, Al Arabiya, TechCrunch, Politico, DroneXL.co, WinBuzzer, Engadget, DroneDJ, Wccftech, Fox Business, and The Japan Times
| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Kazakhstan-based Kaspi.kz agrees to acquire a majority share, or 65.4%, of Turkish e-commerce platform Hepsiburada for ~$1.13B, expected to close in Q1 2025 — The share acquisition is poised to benefit entrepreneurs and SMEs in Kazakhstan and Turkey. — Kazakhstan fintech Kaspi.kz …
More: Cointurk Finance, Kaspi.kz, Türkiye Today, and Daily Sabah
X: @dgenchev, @dgenchev, @oskargoyvaerts, and @dgenchev
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository — Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in Northern California, asking it to intervene and restore …
More: United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Ace of Spades HQ, and The Verge
X: @dhh, @peterjthomson, @p3ob7o, @stan_chudnovsky, @bonforte, @gergelyorosz, @ryancduff, @dennisplucinik, @sambahreini, @dhh, @pvukovic, @ryancduff, @jeremiahprummer, @calevans, @dhh, @indianidle, and @indianidle. Forums: r/technology
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid — John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.
More: John Graham-Cumming's blog, Vulacode on GitHub, Vulacode on GitHub, and Matt Mullenweg
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