The recovery of ~120K stolen ether by Jump and Oasis demonstrates the centralization of DeFi enabled by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts
Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts.
HMD Global announces the £150 Nokia G22 and claims users will be able to replace its battery in around five minutes and screen in ~20 minutes with an iFixit kit
HMD has worked to make what it says are the most common smartphone repairs — replacing a broken screen, charging port …
After Oasis complied with a UK high court order and upgraded a DeFi contract, Jump recovers ~120,000 ether, worth $140M, stolen during the 2022 Wormhole exploit
There have recently been two high-profile cases … CoinDesk : Oasis Exploits Its Own Wallet Software to Seize Crypto Stolen in Wormhole Hack Born Bored/CK News and Updates News Letter : The Power of NF...
Sources: Dish Network has been hit by a cyberattack “by an outside bad actor” and the company is working with an external vendor to resolve the issue
American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours.
Inside Apple Exploratory Design Group, which works on a glucose monitor, other advanced tech, and was behind some of the chip and battery tech in iPhones, Macs
Apple has a secret team working to bring noninvasive glucose monitoring to its smartwatch, but that's not all it's pursuing.
Editors at some literary magazines say they are getting overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions, potentially crowding out genuine submissions from newer writers
A short story titled “The Last Hope” first hit Sheila Williams' desk in early January.
Some AI companies are hiring “prompt engineers”, who create and refine text prompts for AI systems to understand their faults and coax optimal results
When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance.
News Corp says attackers behind a data breach the company disclosed in February 2022 gained access in February 2020, stealing some personal data including SSNs
Mass media and publishing giant News Corporation (News Corp) says that attackers behind a breach disclosed in 2022 first gained access …
Sources: Sequoia resigned from Citizen's board after the startup offered a “pay to play” deal obliging existing investors to participate in a new funding round
Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals
As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators say they are often being asked to prove that they're human
Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day, however, a different conversation was going down.
Q&A with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson about inventing the metaverse concept, his blockchain startup Lamina1, not using ChatGPT to help write novels, and more
Neal Stephenson's science-fiction writing has predicted (and inspired) innovations from cryptocurrency to Alexa. Tweets: @soundboy , @financialtimes , @jessefelder , @wachsman_ , @sixela_akire , @rebe...
The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased
two women, one Black, and a non-binary person—were targeted & harassed for ChatGPT's alleged anti-Trump bias. their images were taken from a recruiting video and they don't work directly on ChatGPT We...
How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital
Sometimes innovation just ain't enough … I have four Echo devices in my household. For years, we used them to control the lights in our apartment … Tweets: @lutherlowe , @ranjanxroy , @can , @mparekh...
Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; Chinese companies accounted for 55%, US companies 26%, and UK companies 0.26%
The U.K. only accounted for 0.26% of the global total. — China is neither the world's largest developer of chips nor the world's largest maker of semiconductors.
How thieves watch iPhone owners tap their passcodes in public before stealing their phones to lock victims out of accounts, access data, and loot financial apps
4 digit, 6 digit, alphanumeric — regularly! Joe Rossignol / @rsgnl : I've been reporting on Apple for over a decade and I didn't know or long forgot that you can reset an Apple ID password on an iPhon...
Boston-based Electra Vehicles, which provides AI-based cloud and onboard software for EV battery systems optimization, raised $21M led by United Ventures
Silicon Canals :
Experts: the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles is driving militaries in Ukraine and beyond to hand over more control to AI, creating a slippery slope
Morgan Meaker / Wired :
Inca Digital: Huobi and KuCoin, both based in Seychelles, still let traders transact with debit cards issued by sanctioned Russian banks on their P2P platforms
Huobi & KuCoin — failed to take steps to prevent sanctioned Russian banks from using their platforms, according to a report from blockchain analytics firm Inca Digital provided to POLITICO. W/ @samjsu...
Elliptic: pro-Ukraine causes received $200M+ in crypto donations in 2022, including $80M+ sent to Ukraine's government; pro-Russian entities got less than $5M
Scott Chipolina / Financial Times :
The US FTC drops its administrative trial to block Meta's acquisition of Within less than a month after its federal court loss, handing a final victory to Meta
ORDER RETURNING MATTER TO ADJUDICATION AND DISMISSING COMPLAINT On February 10 … Reuters : US formally ends fight against Meta's purchase of VR content maker Within Unlimited The Economic Times : Edte...
Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things”
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review :
Source: TikTok's test in Australia limiting how much licensed music some users' can access is to study what is trending, how users access its service, and more
Glenn Peoples / Billboard :
A look at the Nvidia A100, a ~$10K GPU that has become a critical tool for generative AI; Nvidia has an estimated 95% market share of machine learning GPUs
Kif Leswing / CNBC : Tweets: @nightingale_p , @stagefright__ , and @sarbjeetjohal Tweets: Paul Nightingale / @nightingale_p : AI infrastructure isn't cheap. Making chips isn't easy. $80bn on upgradin...
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