North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware (arstechnica.com)
North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on US hospitals. (www.voanews.com)
We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands (arstechnica.com)
Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol (www.schneier.com)
a digital wallet is a repository for personal data and documents. Right now, there are hundreds of different wallets, but no standard.
Google DeepMind’s AI systems can now solve complex math problems. (www.technologyreview.com)
Proton launches LLM and crypto wallet (proton.me)
proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant
AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks (www.tomshardware.com)
Tesla’s profits sank sharply in the second quarter of 2024 | The company’s revenue increased by 2 percent compared to last year, but profits are down 45 percent year over year (www.theverge.com)
Tesla published its second quarter earnings report, in which the company said it earned $1.48 billion in net income on $25.5 billion in revenue. That represents a 2 percent increase year over year compared to $24.9 billion in revenue in Q2 2023 but a 45 percent drop in net income....
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data (www.nature.com)
The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes (www.wired.com)
OpenAI had/will have a page about Microsoft for Startups. Why? (openai.com)
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /microsoft-for-startups/...
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled (techcrunch.com)
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one....
Lawsuit: T-Mobile must pay for breaking lifetime price guarantee (arstechnica.com)
Class action filed over price hikes on plans with Un-contract price guarantee.
Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric” (arstechnica.com)
Why Mexico’s delivery workers are ditching food for packages. (restofworld.org)
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbage. (www.technologyreview.com)
We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost (www.cnn.com)
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)
Two Threads, One Core: How Simultaneous Multithreading Works Under the Hood (blog.codingconfessions.com)
Journalists Sue Massachusetts TV Corporation Over Bogus YouTube Takedown Demands. (www.eff.org)
I spoke with Llama 3.1-405B (medium.com)
Zen - a clean and simple text editor in your browser (zen.unit.ms)
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them (www.theregister.com)
Research Findings:...
The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B (arstechnica.com)
Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said (techcrunch.com)
Proton isn’t reinventing the wheel with this crypto wallet. But it’s another solid option for people looking to create a crypto wallet for the first time. However, cryptocurrencies tend to be a polarizing topic, so let’s see if Proton Wallet doesn’t hurt Proton’s brand image in the future....
