Monday, August 12, 2024

TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users, including a weeks-old disaster warning; TikTok removed some of the notifications  —  False claims about Taylor Swift among outdated and misleading information in news-style notifications from video-sharing app



A researcher finds 15K+ hardcoded secrets and 66K vulnerable websites, including details on accessing Stanford's Slack, by searching overlooked data sources (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired:
A researcher finds 15K+ hardcoded secrets and 66K vulnerable websites, including details on accessing Stanford's Slack, by searching overlooked data sources  —  Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.



Google Pixel Fold one year later: far from the perfect gadget but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold may solve its issues (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Pixel Fold one year later: far from the perfect gadget but the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold may solve its issues  —  Using the Fold can feel special, but Google needs to make some obvious upgrades for the follow-up.



Sunday, August 11, 2024

AMD releases updates to mitigate the "Sinkclose" vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:
AMD releases updates to mitigate the “Sinkclose” vulnerability but has no plans to update older Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 or Threadripper 1000 and 2000 CPUs  —  AMD says some chips fall outside of the software support window.  —  AMD processors dating back to 2006 reportedly suffer …



A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement  —  On Front Porch Forum, politics is fair game but unkindness is strictly prohibited.  —  Imagine an online community where substantive debates …



Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Zack Abrams / The Block:
Celsius sued Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back ~40K bitcoins, now worth ~$2.4B, that Celsius claims Tether sold improperly at the bottom of the market  —  - Celsius filed a lawsuit against Tether on Friday in an attempt to claw back Bitcoin worth $2.4 billion that the company …



Saturday, August 10, 2024

Just two of OpenAI's 11-strong founding team are active at OpenAI, after a series of exits in 2024 following the attempted boardroom coup against Sam Altman (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Just two of OpenAI's 11-strong founding team are active at OpenAI, after a series of exits in 2024 following the attempted boardroom coup against Sam Altman  —  Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year



X adds the ability to sort replies, letting users choose most relevant, most recent, or most liked replies; it is unclear how the most relevant option works (Matt Binder/Mashable)

Matt Binder / Mashable:
X adds the ability to sort replies, letting users choose most relevant, most recent, or most liked replies; it is unclear how the most relevant option works  —  Sorry, blue checks, it seems like you will no longer dominate users' mentions on X.  —  Thanks to a new feature, “blue checks” may no longer dominate reply threads on X.



An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
An obituary of Susan Wojcicki, who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, helped launch and grow AdSense, and pushed for Google to buy YouTube  —  Ms. Wojcicki, who helped start Google, was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley before stepping down from YouTube.



Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Q&A with Wikimedia Foundation executives on how AI could make knowledge more accessible to people, the risk that AI may impact its volunteers' engagement, more  —  We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia's connection with the volunteers who create it.



A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

Tripp Mickle / New York Times : A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could...