Sources: Apple is trying to make the next Vision Pro more comfortable to wear and Meta is aiming to release a cheaper Quest in 2024 and true AR glasses in 2025
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.
Hackers posted a 23andMe data sample on BreachForums, claiming 1M data points exclusively on Ashkenazi Jews, but the sample appears to lack raw genetic data
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
A research paper details how decomposing groups of neural network neurons into “interpretable features” may improve safety by enabling the monitoring of LLMs
Neural networks are trained on data, not programmed to follow rules. With each step of training …
As the UK FCA widens its crypto marketing rules, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies, expecting to continue serving UK customers
- Coinbase and OKX have partnered with crypto startup Archax to get financial promotions approved. — At the same time …
Investigation: earlier in 2023, Vietnam tried to plant Predator spyware on the phones of US Congress members, CNN journalists, and policy experts via posts on X
The attempts appear to have been unsuccessful, but came as the U.S. and Vietnam were negotiating an agreement that President Biden signed last month in Hanoi
Meta Quest 3 review: comfortable with improved displays and snappy performance, but there isn't much MR content and passthrough isn't quite sharp enough
Meta's new headset is better than its predecessors in almost every way. But until there's more to do in mixed reality …
A look at Discogs, a user-generated music database and marketplace for physical music media, as sellers complain about the website's old tech and increased fees
A home for music diehards has been fractured by increased fees that are pushing sellers and shoppers to other platforms.
A history of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 to build small digital modules, pioneered minicomputers before being acquired by Compaq in 1998
I found out most of this while putting together my GTC documentary but this is a great recap. @portershed @johnbreslin @ATU_GalwayCity https://arstechnica.com/... @louismcdonald : Long gone, DEC is st...
Investors and analysts: Intel, Nvidia, and others in Israel are set to fortify security and face disruptions after Hamas attacks; Nvidia cancels an AI summit
Tech companies operating in Israel are expected to fortify security as they could face disruptions, said investors and analysts …
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud from January 2021 to June 2023 said the contact started on social media, causing $2.7B in losses
Emma Fletcher / Federal Trade Commission :
An investigation details FTX staff's all-night race to stop a crypto heist as the exchange collapsed, ultimately losing $415M to $432M to unidentified hackers
The same chaotic day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from its coffers.
Samsung and SK Hynix say the US will let them supply US chip equipment to their Chinese factories indefinitely without separate approvals
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) will be allowed to supply U.S. chip equipment to their China factories indefinitely without …
China outlines a plan to target 300+ exaflops of computing capacity, up from 220 in 2023, bigger optical networks, advanced data storage, and more by 2025
- Country aims to build more data centers, high-speed networks — Effort to benefit local suppliers due to security concerns
Alexa has been claiming that the US 2020 presidential election was stolen, citing unvetted Rumble and Substack sources; Amazon says the errors have been fixed
Source: Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, the $10/month service used by 1.5M+ people, loses an average of $20+ per month per user and as much as $80 for some users
Microsoft, Google and others experiment with how to produce, market and charge for new tools — Tech companies are touting …
Q&A with Stanford University School of Medicine Dean Dr. Lloyd Minor on generative AI in medicine, the privacy risks, responsibly deploying the tech, and more
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Y Combinator hires Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for publicly criticizing Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics
NewsWhip: seven of the top 10 “news” articles with the most interactions on Facebook in September 2023 were published on the catholicfundamentalism.com domain
Read to the end for the garfarious anglerfish — This Is What Replaces News On Facebook X: @broderick X: Ryan Broderick / @broderick : After Facebook deprioritized news content this summer, seven of ...
IDC says Google shipped 37.9M Pixel phones from 2016 to 2023, suggesting the company shipped a record ~10M phones over the past 12 months, up from 7.2M in 2019
Mastodon fixes an issue that undercounted its MAUs by 407,814 between October 2 and October 8, meaning the social network has 1.8M MAUs in total and 10K servers
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X … Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social See also Mediagazer Mastodon: Eugen Rochk...
Merlin Entertainments partners with Immersive Gamebox to test AR games based on TV shows Paw Patrol and Squid Game, starting at venues in Australia and Germany
Rachel Read / Blooloop :
LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which may impact customer service, HR, and mental health sectors
I have friends who are diagnosed autistic and have lots of stories about trouble with police because they were “animated” or something. — This is totally gonna misread my people. Tim Chambers / @tch...
Netflix ends its free mobile plan in Kenya, which offered access to a quarter of its shows and movies, after two years and rolls out a $6 per month ad tier
Duncan Miriri / Reuters :
London-based care home marketplace Lottie, which claims 500K monthly users, raised a £16.35M Series A led by Accel, after raising £6M in July 2022
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
The US adds 42 companies from China and seven from Finland, Germany, India, Turkey, the UAE, and the UK to an export control list over supporting Russia's army
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
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