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UK researchers train a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with 95% accuracy overall and 93% on Zoom — A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using …
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Forums: r/cybersecurity and Slashdot
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How a false facial recognition match led to a Black woman being wrongfully arrested for carjacking and robbery in Detroit, the first such known case for a woman — Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking.
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| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
PayPal debuts PYUSD, a Paxos-issued stablecoin and fully backed by USD deposits, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US users gradually — - PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector
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Researchers: North Korean hackers placed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for at least five months in 2022 to see emails and more — An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Black Twitter users have become a “digital diaspora” searching for a replacement after Elon Musk's takeover, such as Mastodon, Threads, Spoutible, and Fanbase — The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a “digital diaspora” in search of a new home.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bing Chat, which previously was only available in Microsoft products like the Edge browser and Bing app, is coming to third-party browsers, including on mobile — In late July, Microsoft confirmed its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat was testing in third-party browsers like Chrome and Safari …
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Shoddy self-published guidebooks, which appear to be compiled with the help of generative AI and promoted via deceptive reviews, are proliferating on Amazon — In March, as she planned for an upcoming trip to France, Amy Kolsky, an experienced international traveler who lives in Bucks County …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: TSMC and Apple have a deal where TSMC basically eats the cost of chip defects; Apple will save billions of dollars and get 3nm chips long before rivals — When Apple's next iPhone goes on sale in September, its upgraded core processor will be more powerful than that of any rival smartphone.| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Toshiba announces a ~$14B tender offer to take the company private at ~$32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies — Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private …
More: Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, WRAL TechWire, and Toshiba. Forums: Slashdot
| Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF reports a $15.6B loss in 2022 after its Vision Fund and tech investments plunged; assets under management grew to $595.5B thanks to Aramco — - Softbank's fund saw a record loss of $32 billion in 2022 — Current estimates place the PIF's assets at $777 billion
More: Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, New York Times, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Guy Chazan / Financial Times: |
Germany's “Silicon Saxony”, where TSMC is widely expected to build a European fab, may be undermined by few local workers and rising anti-immigration movements — Industry concerned rise of anti-immigration movements in state of Saxony will hinder efforts to attract foreign talent| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: a useful cover screen and widgets, IPX8, and five years of patches, but so-so battery, tricky cover apps, and unknown durability — It's a big update year for Samsung's flip-style foldable — and a much larger cover screen makes all the difference.
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