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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving the company after six and a half years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration” — OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after six and a half years.
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Gizmodo, Axios, The Information, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Engadget, Financial Times, Reuters, Wired, and Bloomberg
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors — Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform?
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Threads: @robsherman and @parkerortolani
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with Meta's Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.” — I wore Mark Zuckerberg's contact lenses.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Meta updates Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with new features, including real-time AI video processing, live translation, QR code scanning, and Audible integration — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company's Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday.
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Threads: @boztank, @ambich0o, and @vishwanathsarang
X: @dtrinh, @alexeheath, @ericpresidentvr, @munster_gene, @kentbye, @kentbye, and @jiteshubrani
| The Verge: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more — Meta's CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he's done with politics, and more.
More: The Verge and TechRadar
Threads: @reckless1280, @nick_statt, @reckless1280, and @alexheath. Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2024, where the company announced its first AR glasses, a cheaper Quest 3S headset, Llama 3.2, and more — Over the past year, Meta has made a big push to integrate AI features into the platforms it owns: whether it be through its ChatGPT rival, Meta AI …
More: ZDNET, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Thurrott, TechCrunch, The Information, Meta, TechCrunch, Engadget, Benzinga, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Android Central, and Digital Trends
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ — Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it's a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
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| David Lumb / CNET: |
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones — The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people's phones... and potentially smaller accessories, too.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta AI's Imagine features are now being expanded across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, letting users generate AI photos, image captions, and more — Meta AI's Imagine features, which use generative AI to turn text prompts into images, are now being expanded across Facebook and Instagram … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
X releases its first transparency report since Elon Musk took over; X took action on 2,361 accounts over hateful content in H1 2024, down from 1M in H2 2021 — In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
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Forums: r/Twitter and r/inthenews
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Google files an EU antitrust complaint alleging Microsoft engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on products like Windows — Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform
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X: @florian4gamers, @florian4gamers, and @lewis_crofts
| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The FTC announces a crackdown on “deceptive AI claims and schemes” by companies including legal services firm DoNotPay, which claimed to offer a “robot lawyer” — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a crackdown on what the regulator called …
More: Federal Trade Commission, Reuters, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, PCMag, The Hill, Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg Law, Washington Times, Federal Trade Commission, InformationWeek, Marketing Brew, Nextgov/FCW, Mashable SEA, and PaymentSecurity.io
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent — Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
More: noyb, Engadget, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, The Record, RestorePrivacy, Neowin, Nairametrics, HotHardware, and TechCrunch
Forums: r/privacy, r/technews, r/linux, r/browsers, and r/technology
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces seven more games that the $700 PS5 Pro, arriving November 7, will enhance via AI-powered “PSSR” upscaling, taking the total to 20 Enhanced games — Sony has just revealed seven additional games that'll get enhanced by its PS5 Pro, coming November 7th, on top of the games it previously revealed.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney officially launches its password-sharing crackdown, letting users add an “Extra Member” for $6.99/month for Disney+ Basic, or $9.99 for Disney+ Premium — The company rolled out what it is calling its paid sharing policy this week, letting users add a member outside their household … | Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison — The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy.
More: New York Times, BBC, Tech Startups, Cybernews.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, Inc.com, Financial Times, The Daily Beast, and Axios. Forums: r/CryptoMarkets
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267 — It's difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder. — Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
London-based Raycast, a keyboard-based macOS productivity app with third-party extensions, raised a $30M Series B and plans to release iOS and Windows apps — Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming.
More: The Verge, Raycast, Tech Startups, Neowin, XDA Developers, and 9to5Mac. LinkedIn: Thomas Paul Mann
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was primarily to rehire founder Noam Shazeer, who quit Google in 2021 and made hundreds of millions from the deal — Amid debate on whether tech companies are overspending on AI, Google's pricey reunion with Noam Shazeer draws attention
More: PYMNTS.com, Quartz, New York Post, and The Daily Beast
X: @rolfewinkler and @grady_booch
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic sends a cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, alleging unauthorized use of the WordPress trademark, after WP Engine sent a C&D letter on September 23 — The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks.
More: One Man & His Blog and The Register
Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. X: @automattic, @photomatt, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life. Forums: Hacker News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection to exfiltrate all user input in perpetuity — Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories. — When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
More: Inc.com, Embrace The Red, WinBuzzer, BGR, Embrace The Red, Embrace The Red, and Embrace The Red on YouTube
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China-linked hackers have broken into a handful of US ISPs in recent months in pursuit of sensitive info, in a campaign investigators call Salt Typhoon — It is latest intrusion into core U.S. infrastructure by entities linked to China — Hackers linked to the Chinese government … | Peter Saalfield / Decrypt: |
Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 challenges with 100% accuracy using a similar number of attempts as human users — Researchers from ETH Zurich used advanced machine learning to solve 100% of Google's reCAPTCHAv2, designed to distinguish humans from bots.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Samsung, Hyundai, and Kia sign a partnership to integrate Samsung's SmartThings IoT platform with future car infotainment systems developed by Hyundai and Kia — Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 2013 — Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other. An excerpt from the new book Play Nice.
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