How Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex has become a major money laundering channel for cybercriminals and terror groups like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal)

Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal:
How Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex has become a major money laundering channel for cybercriminals and terror groups like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad  —  Garantex's international pipeline helps defy Treasury sanctions by channeling rubles to crypto to dollars.  Customers line up with bags of cash.

TSMC founder Morris Chang says the company expects competition from Intel and others, and Japan and Singapore have the best chance of winning the chip race (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC founder Morris Chang says the company expects competition from Intel and others, and Japan and Singapore have the best chance of winning the chip race  —  Founder adds Japan and Singapore are well-positioned to win as industry evolves  —  TSMC founder Morris Chang attends a sports day event in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Oct. 14.

A look at Apple's recent executive promotions; sources: a cheaper Vision Pro may not have EyeSight and M3-based MacBook Pros could come in early or spring 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's recent executive promotions; sources: a cheaper Vision Pro may not have EyeSight and M3-based MacBook Pros could come in early or spring 2024  —  Still, it's losing a top hardware executive.  Also: There are fresh details on efforts to lower the price of the Vision Pro …

Researchers find that a modest amount of fine-tuning can undo safety efforts that aim to prevent LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Researchers find that a modest amount of fine-tuning can undo safety efforts that aim to prevent LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content  —  OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with ‘20 cents’ of API tickling  —  The “guardrails” created to prevent large language models …

GPT4-V, the new mode of GPT-4 that lets users upload images as part of conversations, allows for prompt injection attacks by following instructions in images (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT4-V, the new mode of GPT-4 that lets users upload images as part of conversations, allows for prompt injection attacks by following instructions in images  —  GPT4-V is the new mode of GPT-4 that allows you to upload images as part of your conversations.  It's absolutely brilliant.

The Microsoft-Activision deal closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting "vertical mergers" through courts and regulators relatively unscathed (New York Times)

New York Times:
The Microsoft-Activision deal closure shows that tech giants can still grow by getting “vertical mergers” through courts and regulators relatively unscathed  —  With the completion of the blockbuster acquisition, the notion that tech giants can grow through “vertical transactions” remains intact.