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A Martínez / NPR: An interview with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the state’s efforts to curb AI-manufactured deceptions ahead of the upcoming 2024 US elections  —  NPR’s A Martinez talks with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes… Read More »An interview with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the state’s efforts to curb AI-manufactured deceptions ahead of the upcoming 2024 US elections (A Martínez/NPR)

IEEE Spectrum: How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims  —  This is a guest post.  The views expressed here are solely those… Read More »How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims (IEEE Spectrum)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: some executives and board members at companies run by Elon Musk fear his use of drugs, including LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy, could harm his companies  —  Some executives and board members fear the billionaire’s use of… Read More »Sources: some executives and board members at companies run by Elon Musk fear his use of drugs, including LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy, could harm his companies (Wall Street Journal)

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance aren’t keen on buying Nvidia’s lower-powered AI chips and are shifting some orders to Huawei’s China-made chips  —  Chinese buyers are pushing back against the lower-powered AI chips… Read More »Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance aren’t keen on buying Nvidia’s lower-powered AI chips and are shifting some orders to Huawei’s China-made chips (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is about 30% less than in 2022  —  U.S. national security officials have raised concerns about North… Read More »TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is about 30% less than in 2022 (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Steven Levy / Wired: A defense of AI hallucinations, which can spur human creativity and, by forcing users to fact-check, act as a firewall in the transition to superintelligent AI  —  It’s a big problem when chatbots spew untruths.  But… Read More »A defense of AI hallucinations, which can spur human creativity and, by forcing users to fact-check, act as a firewall in the transition to superintelligent AI (Steven Levy/Wired)

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Neobank Dave has reached an agreement to pay $71M to FTX liquidators to buy back a $100M convertible promissory note it issued to FTX Ventures in 2022  —  Fintech firm Dave will purchase a convertible… Read More »Neobank Dave has reached an agreement to pay $71M to FTX liquidators to buy back a $100M convertible promissory note it issued to FTX Ventures in 2022 (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Google downplays reports of malware abusing an undocumented Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies, saying such token theft attacks “are not new”  —  Google is downplaying reports of malware abusing an undocumented Google Chrome API… Read More »Google downplays reports of malware abusing an undocumented Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies, saying such token theft attacks “are not new” (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Hands-on with Midjourney v6: generates highly detailed images that sometimes seem unrealistic, a different approach to prompting compared to v5, and more  —  As Midjourney rolls out new features, it continues to make some artists… Read More »Hands-on with Midjourney v6: generates highly detailed images that sometimes seem unrealistic, a different approach to prompting compared to v5, and more (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Ann Carrns / New York Times: The US IRS starts testing its free, “mobile friendly” direct e-filing system with some low- and moderate-income taxpayers in 12 US states  —  Residents of 12 states are eligible to participate if they meet… Read More »The US IRS starts testing its free, “mobile friendly” direct e-filing system with some low- and moderate-income taxpayers in 12 US states (Ann Carrns/New York Times)