The genetic testing company 23andMe confirmed on Friday that data from a subset of its users has been compromised. The company said its systems were not breached and that attackers gathered the data by guessing the login credentials of a group of users and then scraping more people’s information from a feature known as DNA… Continue reading 23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
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U2’s The Edge on The Sphere’s Opening Night: ‘This Is Definitely Working’
Maybe this would be an amazing app for the Apple headset. I think so. But I find that being isolated in an immersive experience is very, very different than being at a live event. Even watching a concert film at home on your sofa, you want your friends around. How did the Sphere’s 168,000-speaker sound… Continue reading U2’s The Edge on The Sphere’s Opening Night: ‘This Is Definitely Working’
Everybody’s Talking About the Wrong Sam Bankman-Fried Book
Lewis got more access to Sam Bankman-Fried than anyone, but his book doesn’t tell a new story. It’s a perfectly serviceable primer for people who haven’t been following the FTX saga (I’ll probably give it to my dad, and he’ll probably love it), but for readers who have been following this case it’s a familiar… Continue reading Everybody’s Talking About the Wrong Sam Bankman-Fried Book
Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
It may be difficult for search engines to automatically detect AI-generated text. But Microsoft could have implemented some basic safeguards, perhaps barring text drawn from chatbot transcripts from becoming a featured snippet or adding warnings that certain results or citations consist of text dreamt up by an algorithm. Griffin added a disclaimer to his blog… Continue reading Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
Former Ubisoft Execs Detained as Part of Harassment Investigation
Police in France have taken five former Ubisoft employees, including vice president of editorial and creative services Tommy Francois and chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, into custody following a long investigation into moral and sexual harassment at the Assassin’s Creed creator. By Wednesday, the five had been taken into custody and questioned; only Francois and… Continue reading Former Ubisoft Execs Detained as Part of Harassment Investigation
Sam Bankman-Fried Made Reasonable Business Decisions, Lawyers Claim
Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX may have lost at least $8 billion in customer money, but he “didn’t intend to defraud anyone,” his defense team said Wednesday during the opening arguments of his highly anticipated trial. Though legal experts had long speculated that Bankman-Fried, or SBF for short, would take a “blame the lawyers” approach,… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Made Reasonable Business Decisions, Lawyers Claim
How TikTok Is Changing Stage Design
“You can have the world’s best idea, but if it doesn’t fit on the back of a truck then it’s a nonstarter,” says Ray Winkler, who’s been loading ideas onto the backs of trucks for close to 30 years now. Winkler is the CEO of Stufish, where he leads a team of architects who take… Continue reading How TikTok Is Changing Stage Design
The New AI Photo Tricks on the Pixel 8 Are Blowing My Mind
I watched as the spokesperson selected a person’s face and cycled through other versions of the face from recent images and other frames. Just choose the face you want (a weird sentence to write) to complete your perfect group photo. Google assured me it is not generating any facial expressions but is instead using an… Continue reading The New AI Photo Tricks on the Pixel 8 Are Blowing My Mind
Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up
David Ferrucci, CEO of AI company Elemental Cognition and previously the lead on IBM’s Watson project, says language models have removed a great deal of the complexity from building useful assistants. Parsing complex commands previously required a huge amount of hand-coding to cover the different variations of language, and the final systems were often annoyingly… Continue reading Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up
Samsung Galaxy S23 FE, Tab S9 FE, Buds FE (2023): Features, Specs, Price
If you heard the words Fan Edition, chances are you’d expect something extraordinary. Perhaps a limited edition design or a feature that takes a product to a level that only true fans can appreciate. This is not the case with the deluge of hardware Samsung just announced: the Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE,… Continue reading Samsung Galaxy S23 FE, Tab S9 FE, Buds FE (2023): Features, Specs, Price