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| Walter Isaacson / CNBC: |
How Tesla's Autopilot team moved away from a rules-based approach for the upcoming FSD 12 to a “neural network planner” trained on 10M+ Tesla car video clips — The following is adapted from Walter Isaacson's biography “Elon Musk,” publishing Sept. 12.
More: Axios and UPROXX
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LinkedIn: Salem Bagami, Tim Schnurr, and Florian Minderop
Forums: r/TSLA, r/teslamotors, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A US appeals court finds the White House, the CDC, and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies' moderation of COVID-19 posts — The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General's office's contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms' content decisions
More: New York Times, Reuters, New York Post, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, Why Evolution Is True, and United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Threads: @osirisrankin, @luckytran, @tovahsfine, @undeadben, @ledonneessential, @jackieblue4u, @the.other.matthew, @thomaskrafft, @norsdusk, @amberwavesofflame, @drmarshprincess, @luckytran, @frelsiusa, @luckytran, @joyhenningsenmd, @genomd, and @luckytran. Bluesky: @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, and Beehaw
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google says North Korea-backed hackers are again targeting security researchers via a zero-day exploit; this still unfixed flaw is in a popular software package — Google researchers say currently unfixed vulnerability affects a popular software package. — North Korea-backed hackers …
More: The Keyword, BleepingComputer, The Record, SC Media, PCMag, Dark Reading, Cybernews.com, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, ComputerWeekly.com, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, Metacurity, and Help Net Security
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LinkedIn: Charles Durant and Gianluca Varisco
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: |
Dennis Austin, the principal developer of PowerPoint who led development of the presentation software until he retired in 1996, died on September 1 aged 76 — The program was the digital successor of the overhead projector. It became one of the most ubiquitous and scorned programs of modern office life.
More: The Verge, Boing Boing, Thurrott, and Neowin
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| Hillel Italie / Associated Press: |
Amazon starts requiring writers in its e-book program to disclose using AI-generated content in their books, after complaints from the Authors Guild and others — After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through …
More: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, The Authors Guild, PCMag, and Cryptopolitan
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| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
How privacy campaigners and tech executives, like Signal president Meredith Whittaker, teamed up to challenge the UK's Online Safety Bill encryption crackdown — LONDON — Deep in the recesses of Britain's Hogwarts-like houses of parliament, a Facebook lobbyist-turned-lord is trying to foment a rebellion.| Bloomberg: |
An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software — - Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision
More: Ars Technica, Federal Trade Commission, The Verge, PCMag, CNBC, Federal Trade Commission, The Messenger, MarketWatch, and Reuters
X: @jayshooster, @robertfreundlaw, @propublica, and @saalevine
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, and Slashdot
| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How Meta and Google held back their tech to recognize unknown people's faces due to privacy worries, opening the door for startups like Clearview AI and PimEyes — Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things.| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
X sues California over AB 587, arguing the law forcing social networks to detail their moderation interferes with X's constitutionally protected editorial calls — Elon Musk's X Corp. sued California over a law requiring social media companies to explain how their content is moderated.
More: Techdirt, United States District Court Eastern District of California Sacramento Division, The Verge, Fortune, Insider, Los Angeles Times, Tech Xplore, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Reclaim The Net, Livemint, Reuters, Associated Press, The Hill, CNN, Chamber of Progress, and Engadget
| Reuters: |
Sources: US chipmakers and tech firms, including Intel, GlobalFoundries, and Google, plan to attend a business meeting in Vietnam as Biden visits to boost ties — Top U.S. semiconductors and digital companies including Intel, GlobalFoundries and Google are expected to attend a business meeting …
More: Bloomberg, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, and New York Times
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Some Wyze security camera owners report that they were briefly able to see feeds from cameras they didn't own or recognize; Wyze blames “a web caching issue” — Some Wyze security camera owners reported Friday that they were unexpectedly able to see webcam feeds that weren't theirs … | Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Rene Haas, who Arm appointed as CEO in February 2022 after Nvidia's Arm acquisition was scrapped and SoftBank shared plans to pursue an IPO instead — The American CEO of Arm, a British company owned by a Japanese tech conglomerate, must juggle the needs of chip-making customers who are battling each other
X: @wsj
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