Freddy Brewster / Los Angeles Times:
FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz — Before his mid-December arrest, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader …
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Monday, December 26, 2022
FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz (Freddy Brewster/Los Angeles Times)
A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which lets clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings (Omer Benjakob/Haaretz)
Omer Benjakob / Haaretz:
A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which lets clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings — Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds - just like in Hollywood heist movies
Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales amid COVID-19 disruptions (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales amid COVID-19 disruptions — China's leading handset maker has suffered Covid disruption at home and regulatory woes abroad — Three top executives …
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Study: programmers who use AI tools like GitHub Copilot produce less secure code than those who don't while making them believe their code has no safety issues (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Study: programmers who use AI tools like GitHub Copilot produce less secure code than those who don't while making them believe their code has no safety issues — At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound
A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing tool for hackers of all levels to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors and more (Dhruv Mehrotra/Wired)
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired:
A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing tool for hackers of all levels to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors and more — Don't be fooled by its fun name and Tamagotchi-like interface—this do-everything gadget is trouble waiting to happen and a whole lot more.
Q&A with author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel about AI's ability to help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation, privacy regulation, and more (Jennifer Conrad/Wired)
Jennifer Conrad / Wired:
Q&A with author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel about AI's ability to help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation, privacy regulation, and more — Author and labor lawyer Orly Lobel says AI can help mitigate human biases in hiring and compensation.
Sensor Tower: Pinduoduo's marketplace Temu gained 10.8M installations in the US since Sep. 1, and became the most downloaded US app between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14 (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal)
Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal:
Sensor Tower: Pinduoduo's marketplace Temu gained 10.8M installations in the US since Sep. 1, and became the most downloaded US app between Nov. 1 and Dec. 14 — Temu, a marketplace with deep discounts and copious coupons, has become the most downloaded mobile app in the U.S. — Copy Link
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Mastodon's decentralized nature raises concerns about the liability of users running their own instances, under copyright and privacy laws around the world (Amanda Hoover/Wired)
Amanda Hoover / Wired:
Mastodon's decentralized nature raises concerns about the liability of users running their own instances, under copyright and privacy laws around the world — As the niche, decentralized social networking platform rises in popularity, it faces rising costs, culture shifts—and potential legal risks.
Twitter restores a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources, after reportedly removing it following an order by Elon Musk (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Twitter restores a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources, after reportedly removing it following an order by Elon Musk — Twitter Inc restored a feature that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content …
TikTok's parent ByteDance accessed data of US journalists, says report
WhatsApp working on feature to let users report status updates
Philadelphia-based Exyn, which develops AI-powered navigation tech for drones and robots, raised a $35M Series B from Reliance and others at a ~$107M valuation (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Philadelphia-based Exyn, which develops AI-powered navigation tech for drones and robots, raised a $35M Series B from Reliance and others at a ~$107M valuation — Reliance has backed the Philadelphia-based AI and robotics startup Exyn, the Indian conglomerate disclosed in a stock exchange filing …
Google Discover: How to disable video autoplay feature on Android
Friday, December 23, 2022
Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it looking into reports that details of approximately 5.4M Twitter users were leaked online in 2021 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it looking into reports that details of approximately 5.4M Twitter users were leaked online in 2021 — Elon Musk's Twitter Inc. risks massive fines after its top privacy regulator in the European Union opened a probe into reports of a suspected data breach …
Jack Sweeney brings back @ElonJet as @ElonJetNextDay, tracking Elon Musk's jet with a 24-hour delay, after Twitter banned sharing others' real-time location (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Jack Sweeney brings back @ElonJet as @ElonJetNextDay, tracking Elon Musk's jet with a 24-hour delay, after Twitter banned sharing others' real-time location — The college student who ran the now-banned @ElonJet Twitter account that used public information to track Elon Musk's private jet …
Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 202...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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