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How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI, crypto drainers, Starlink terminals, and other tools to expand their pig butchering operations (Wired)

How scammers in Southeast Asia are using generativ...

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Analysis: US regulators have secured $19B+ in eight settlements from crypto firms so far in 2024, including FTX's $12.7B, and ~$32B since January 1, 2019 (Lim Yu Qian/CoinGecko)

Analysis: US regulators have secured $19B+ in eigh...

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A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans to launch a ~$2K headset in 2025, Vision Pro 2 in 2026, and Ray-Ban-like glasses and AirPods with cameras in 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A look at Apple's new home strategy and plans to l...

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An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning in a low-income area in North Omaha, Nebraska, as Meta and Google data centers strain regional power supply (Evan Halper/Washington Post)

An energy crunch is forcing continued coal burning...

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How some architects and designers are creating photorealistic virtual spaces in the metaverse; report: 41% of architectural practices use AI to some degree (Victoria Woodcock/Financial Times)

How some architects and designers are creating pho...

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A look at sports data tech companies like Sportradar, which set betting odds for sports gambling apps and websites, as they build models to keep people betting (Samanth Subramanian/Bloomberg)

A look at sports data tech companies like Sportrad...

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The CA-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub, which is researching hybrid gain cell memory to blend DRAM's density with SRAM's speed, gets a $16.3M CHIPS Act grant (Katherine Bourzac/IEEE Spectrum)

The CA-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub, which is...

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Report: Chinese video surveillance tech supplier Hikvision plans to lay off 1,000+ employees in its R&D department; Hikvision denied any "large-scale lay-offs" (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

Report: Chinese video surveillance tech supplier H...

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Sources: Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu had $200M in net profit on $1B+ revenue in Q1 2024, up from $40M in net profit on ~$600M revenue in Q1 2023 (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Sources: Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu...

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Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more (John Pavlus/Quanta Magazine)

Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how t...

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Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is "forking" Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away "without consent" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is "forking" Advance...

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Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack down on illicit use of Starlink terminals by Russia to power its advance in Ukraine (Washington Post)

Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done en...

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Apple adds an option in iOS 18.1 to let users set a "Primary" email address in Settings, letting users change the email associated with their Apple Account (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple adds an option in iOS 18.1 to let users set ...

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Threads users criticize Meta after the company posted AI-generated images of the Aurora Borealis on its Threads account (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Threads users criticize Meta after the company pos...

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A profile of, and interview with, Meta's Yann LeCu...

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Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models and their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)

Apple AI researchers say they found no evidence of...

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Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess (Mathew Ingram/The Torment Nexus)

Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only pres...

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The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton and Helene revealed not just a misinformation crisis in the US but a cultural assault on reality itself (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)

The bleak online discourse about hurricanes Milton...

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