A research paper details how decomposing groups of neurons in a neural network into interpretable “features” may improve safety by enabling monitoring of LLMs
Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training …
Hackers posted an initial data sample from 23andMe on BreachForums earlier in the week, claiming that it had 1M data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud between January 2021-June 2023 said it started on social media, resulting in losses worth $2.7B
Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.
Amazon's Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen citing sources from Rumble and Substack; Amazon says the errors were fixed
The popular voice assistant says the 2020 race was stolen, even as parent company Amazon promotes the tool as a reliable election news source — foreshadowing a new information battleground
IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones between 2016 and 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the last 12 months
Google Pixel is still a minor player in the global smartphone market, but the brand continues to move along. As the Pixel 8 series launched this week …
A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, which pioneered minicomputers after being founded in 1957 and was acquired by Compaq in 1998
One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s. — Even though very few of the early players in technology still exist, we use their creations to this day.
Even though the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have the same Tensor G3 chip, features like Night Sight Video and enhanced Magic Eraser are exclusive to the Pixel 8 Pro
I can't believe Google finally did it. I'm still in disbelief. … It's unheard of. It's historic.
Y Combinator hires Yelp policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for his public criticism of Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics
Best known for his relentless public criticism of Google as a monopoly, longtime Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe has a new gig: heading up policy efforts for Y Combinator.
The US adds 42 tech companies from China and seven companies from India, UK, and other countries to an export control list over their support for Russian army
The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over their support …
Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release true AR glasses in 2025 and a cheaper Quest
Apple's Vision Pro and Meta's Quest 3 haven't even been released yet, but the two companies are already deep into work on follow-up products.
The UK FCA plans to name firms violating its crypto promotion rules, which will be widened on October 8 to include cryptoasset providers regardless of location
- Watchdog will add firms to warning list starting on Sunday — The UK's Financial Conduct Authority will move fast to name …
Amazon updates its Luna cloud gaming service to let users buy individual games, starting with select Ubisoft titles; users must first link their Ubisoft account
but only Ubisoft ones John Callaham / Neowin : Amazon Luna now allows users to buy games directly, but only if they are Ubisoft games Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Now You Can Buy Some Individual Games o...
A look at SoftBank-owned PayPay, which holds a two-thirds share of the QR-code payments market in Japan and could be next in the conglomerate's IPO pipeline
- Firm chases gross merchant value growth of over 30% this year — PayPay seen to be next in SoftBank's arsenal of possible IPOs X: @japantimes , @naveenathresh , and @leeminjeong83 X: @japantimes : P...
Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams
Yuga Labs is announcing a restructuring that will better focus our team on our core priorities. James Cirrone / Blockworks : Crypto hiring: Major layoffs at Yuga Labs, Ledger and Chainalysis this week...
Source: Microsoft plans to unveil its first chip designed for data centers that train and run LLMs at its annual Ignite developer and IT conference in November
Anissa Gardizy / The Information :
The Delhi police accuse Xiaomi, Vivo, and others of helping transfer funds illegally to news outlet NewsClick, which is accused of spreading Chinese propaganda
AllianceBernstein: Netflix has ~6.5M subscribers in India, Prime Video has 20M, and Disney+ Hotstar has 40M+; Netflix's slow growth due to lack of local content
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Several users on Seller Central, Amazon's forum for merchants, welcomed the FTC's lawsuit against the company, while others remain skeptical about its outcome
here's what this could mean for your online shopping
PitchBook: VCs invested $700.3M in video game startups in Q3 2023, the lowest since Q2 2020; gaming attracted $2B+ for eight straight quarters through Q2 2022
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :
Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has made two short-lived attempts since August to set up a payment system for iOS users, to avoid Apple's 30% App Store cut
and failed — twice to create its own micropayment system for iPhone users. But this might also herald future China trouble for Apple. https://thechinaproject.com/ ... Daniel Ahmad / @zhugeex : I spoke...
Political advertisers have raised concerns about X's Community Notes after major brands like Apple, Samsung, and Uber had critical notes attached to their ads
his top priority for revenue growth. Community Notes on ads will 100% be removed because of this. Meg Graham / @megancgraham : “This Is a False Advertisement”: Major brands like Apple, Uber and Samsun...
Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and other companies say productivity spiked after they started using ChatGPT-like tools to answer prospective customers' RFPs
Sales teams at Google, Twilio and others have already found that ChatGPT does a great job responding to customer RFPs. … X: Sang-Rak Kim / @richardkimphd : When asked by a company staffer about its fa...
Cloud software company Blackbaud agrees to pay $49.5M to settle an investigation by AGs from 49 US states into a May 2020 ransomware attack and data breach
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Mastodon: @jalefkowit@octodon.social . X: @agtoddrokita , @agandrewbailey , @agtennessee , @vtattorneygen , @agtimgriffin , @newjerseyoag , @swiftstories , and @new...
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