AI chatbots' conversational nature makes them more trustworthy, which could cause problems, like “hidden exploitation”, outright fraud, and mistaken expertise
I trusted a lot today. I trusted my phone to wake me on time. I trusted Uber to arrange a taxi for me, and the driver to get me to the airport safely.
Beeper debuts an Android app, Beeper Mini, to let users send iMessages with E2EE, without having to use a new number or log in with an Apple ID, for $2/month
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Meta, IBM, and over 50 other companies and organizations form the AI Alliance, a coalition to work on open-source AI, including to share tech and reduce risks
Meta Platforms Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are joining more than 40 companies and organizations to create …
Ofcom starts a consultation on draft guidelines on how porn sites should lock out underage users, including having a bank or mobile network confirm a user's age
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users' ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act.
Microsoft updates Copilot with OpenAI's latest models, including GPT-4 Turbo, and adds a new code interpreter feature and “Deep Search” functionality for Bing
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Docs: Apple warned India that its EU-style charger rules will lower local production targets and on November 28 asked to exempt or delay existing iPhone models
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Amazon fails to renew its live English Premier League rights deal, as part of Sky and TNT's new £6.7B UK TV rights deal for four soccer seasons from 2025/2026
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Meta says cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram will be discontinued in “mid-December 2023”, after announcing the feature in September 2020
Meta is beginning the process of disconnecting the ability to have “cross-app chats” with your Instagram contacts via Facebook Messenger and vice-versa.
Rockstar releases the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, set in a fictional Miami, featuring a male and a female protagonist, ahead of a planned 2025 launch
here's why returning to Vice City is a mistake WFLA : Grand Theft Auto VI trailer reveals game's Florida-inspired setting Vlad Savov / Bloomberg : Grand Theft Auto VI Expectations Are Sky-High Joshua ...
Web3 developer platform thirdweb discloses a major vulnerability in an open-source library used by several NFT collections; thirdweb became aware on November 20
- Thirdweb, a web3 developer platform, disclosed a security vulnerability in its open-source library.
Tesla whistleblower Łukasz Krupski says Autopilot is not safe to use on public roads due to its hardware and software not being “ready”
A former Tesla employee has told the BBC he believes the technology powering the firm's self-driving vehicles is not safe enough to be used on public roads.
OnePlus launches the OnePlus 12 in China, offering up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, 100W wired charging, for ~$606, ahead of an “early 2024” global launch
OnePlus has officially launched the OnePlus 12 in China, and its highest-specced model comes with more RAM …
OpenSecrets: crypto companies spent $18.96M on US lobbying in Q1 2023 to Q3 2023, up from $16.1M during the same period in 2022; Coinbase spent $2.16M, the most
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Interviews with 80+ sources describe how OpenAI releasing ChatGPT a year ago triggered a scramble by Google, Meta, and the rest of Silicon Valley to catch up
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An analysis of 36GB of US school network logs for January 2022 to August 2023 finds widespread internet censoring filters, such as for health and sexuality info
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23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts
https://arstechnica.com/... John / @obeto@mas.to : That's the problem with biometric PIIs: they cannot be changed if a breach occurs. — If, some of the victims work in sensitive departments of our s...
IBM announces 10 quantum computing projects, focusing mainly on areas like simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science
Financial Times :
Google upgrades Gmail's spam filters with RETVec, a text vectorizer that understands “adversarial text manipulations” like emojis, typos, and special characters
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Leaked docs show concern at OctoML over helping its customer Civitai make AI images; OctoML co-founder Thierry Moreau said some “could be categorized as” CSAM
Content warning: This story covers synthetic child sexual abuse images. — OctoML, a Seattle-based startup … Mastodon: @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social , @404mediaco@mastodon.social , @jasonkoebler@mast...
Israeli data privacy and governance startup Mine, which counts Reddit and HelloFresh as clients, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures and PayPal
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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company didn't see much of an “interruption” from Hollywood's strikes and is still targeting a $17B content budget for 2024
and throws shade at competitors Juli Clover / WRAL TechWire : MacRumors: Netflix ‘completely satisfied’ with pace of password sharing crackdown Jill Goldsmith / Deadline : Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos ...
Apptopia: Threads hit 620K daily Android and iOS downloads on November 23, vs. ~350K in early November; since September, X saw 27M downloads, vs. Threads' 41M
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Crypto mining hardware retailer Phoenix's stock jumps 50%+ after raising ~$371M in an Abu Dhabi IPO; the city's largest conglomerate took a 10% stake in October
Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg :
SoftBank acquires a 51% stake in Dublin-based Cubic Telecom, which offers software-based mobile networking for 17M+ vehicles, for €473M, valuing Cubic at €927M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says her department needs more money to stop China's chip gains and calls out Nvidia for redesigning around the US' curbs
Peter Martin / Bloomberg :
ArmorCode, which consolidates vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure for analysis, raised a $40M Series B led by HighlandX
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
The European Commission approves up to €1.2B of state aid for a European cloud computing project, the IPCEI CIS, matched with €1.4B in private investments
IPCEI CIS is the first IPCEI in the cloud and edge computing domain. RTÉ : EU clears up to €1.2 billion of state aid for cloud computing
Foxconn reports November revenue up 18% YoY to ~$20.6B, the first monthly YoY improvement since January 2023, and projects Q4 revenue to be better than expected
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg :
Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI's terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led to revealing training data
A US appeals court throws out VLSI Technology's $2.18B win against Intel in a 2021 patent-infringement case, leading to a new trial over a second VLSI patent
Blake Brittain / Reuters :
NYC-based generative AI video startup Runway partners with Getty Images on an AI video model, shipping in the coming months for use in Hollywood and advertising
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country's companies to meet AI chip demand
Amazon tells the UK CMA in a letter that Microsoft uses business practices that restrict customer choice in cloud computing, after a similar complaint by Google
Martin Coulter / Reuters :
Sources: Paris-based Mistral AI is in the final stages of raising ~€450M at a ~$2B valuation; a16z could provide €200M and Nvidia and Salesforce €120M in debt
less than 12 months after founding Aamir Sheikh / Cryptopolitan : Mistral AI Secures $487 Million Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Emerging as a Strong Competitor to OpenAI PYMNTS.com : Mistral AI ...
Researchers scanned public repos and found 1,681 exposed Hugging Face API tokens belonging to Meta, Microsoft, Google, and others, many with write permissions
AssemblyAI, used by companies to build AI speech models, raised $50M led by Accel, taking its total funding to $115M, and says paying users grew 200% YoY to 4K
A look at Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which supplies 90%+ of the silica to polish wafers, sinking deeper into debt by refusing to raise its prices to cover capex
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