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)

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 about the use of artificial intelligence to curb AI-manufactured threats …

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)

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 of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.

Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps  —  Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and other scams.

Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with "low quality recommendations" over the last few weeks and should get "much better over the next few weeks" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks and should get “much better over the next few weeks”  —  Adam Mosseri says that Threads has had some issues with what he calls “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks.

The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible  —  London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services

Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy (Daniel Stenberg/daniel.haxx.se)

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se:
Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy  —  I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory.  Now I can't hold back anymore.

Samsung debuts Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub accessories for the cloud Gaming Hub on its smart TVs, including a new controller from PDP (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:
Samsung debuts Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub accessories for the cloud Gaming Hub on its smart TVs, including a new controller from PDP  —  Ahead of CES 2024, Samsung is taking the wraps off of a new officially licensed accessory program for the cloud “Gaming Hub” available on its line of Smart TVs …

CertiK: over $1.8B were lost across 751 crypto hacks in 2023, down 51% YoY from $3.7B in 2022; Q3 recorded the most losses at over $686M (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)

Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph:
CertiK: over $1.8B were lost across 751 crypto hacks in 2023, down 51% YoY from $3.7B in 2022; Q3 recorded the most losses at over $686M  —  CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu told Cointelegraph that, all things considered, 2023 was a “positive development” for blockchain security.  —  Total views

Tesla recalls virtually every car it ever sold in China, or more than 1.6M, due to potential issues with Autopilot, after a similar recall in the US in December (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Tesla recalls virtually every car it ever sold in China, or more than 1.6M, due to potential issues with Autopilot, after a similar recall in the US in December  —  - Carmaker will deploy over-the-air software upgrade to cars  — Move mirrors recall of 2 million vehicles in the US last month

LastPass now requires users to set a complex master password with a minimum of 12 characters; users have been able to set a weaker master password since 2018 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
LastPass now requires users to set a complex master password with a minimum of 12 characters; users have been able to set a weaker master password since 2018  —  LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security.

South Korea's trade ministry says the electronics sector drew $3B in foreign direct investment in 2023; the country is building a chip cluster south of Seoul (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korea's trade ministry says the electronics sector drew $3B in foreign direct investment in 2023; the country is building a chip cluster south of Seoul  —  - Funding jumps for electronics that include chips and batteries  — South Korea is building semiconductor cluster south of Seoul

US federal prosecutors charge Tingo Group founder Mmobuosi Odogwu Banye with securities fraud in New York, accusing him of massively inflating Tingo's finances (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg)

Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg:
US federal prosecutors charge Tingo Group founder Mmobuosi Odogwu Banye with securities fraud in New York, accusing him of massively inflating Tingo's finances  —  - Criminal charges follow SEC lawsuit against Dozy Mmobuosi  — Mmobuosi is still ‘at large,’ federal prosecutors in NY said

A look at Shein and Temu's Chinese supply chain: the platforms offer a lifeline to suppliers, but margins are razor-thin, prices must stay low, and unsold stock (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A look at Shein and Temu's Chinese supply chain: the platforms offer a lifeline to suppliers, but margins are razor-thin, prices must stay low, and unsold stock  —  Shopping apps throw a lifeline to Chinese exporters, but it is a trade-off  —  SHENZHEN, China—E-commerce sellers Shein …

A look at the battle brewing between satellite operators over the use of orbit spectrum, as SpaceX's Starlink, Project Kuiper, and others push for looser rules (Peggy Hollinger/Financial Times)

Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times:
A look at the battle brewing between satellite operators over the use of orbit spectrum, as SpaceX's Starlink, Project Kuiper, and others push for looser rules  —  A contest between legacy and new operators is brewing over the use of spectrum  —  There is a battle brewing in space.

The chip industry is the new star on the political scene, bringing opportunities and challenges; Nvidia and others have rapidly built US lobbying operations (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
The chip industry is the new star on the political scene, bringing opportunities and challenges; Nvidia and others have rapidly built US lobbying operations  —  Increased attention from politicians poses opportunities and challenges for the semiconductor industry  —  Semiconductors have played the starring role in state visits.