A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann  —  In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox.

Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: the Biden administration has asked South Korea to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting sales to China if Beijing bans Micron chips  —  White House has tried to enlist Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in its semiconductor battle with Beijing

Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more (Nabiha Syed/The Markup)

Nabiha Syed / The Markup:
Q&A with Katherine Forrest, a former federal judge for the SDNY, on copyright and generative AI, the Copyright Office's guidance on AI-generated work, and more  —  A conversation with Katherine Forrest  —  Subscribe to Hello World … Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere …

Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.

Proliferation of hacker group naming schemes complicates tracking of threat actors, but the fog of war in cybersecurity research makes this issue hard to fix (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Proliferation of hacker group naming schemes complicates tracking of threat actors, but the fog of war in cybersecurity research makes this issue hard to fix  —  Pumpkin Sandstorm.  Spandex Tempest.  Charming Kitten.  Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide?

Sources: details on Apple XR headset's external battery pack and charging cable, and a look at its app strategy - throw everything but the kitchen sink at users (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: details on Apple XR headset's external battery pack and charging cable, and a look at its app strategy - throw everything but the kitchen sink at users  —  Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset's features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product.