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Apple’s next big 5G iPhone upgrade is still two years away

Apple’s next massive upgrade might be a new, internally developed 5G chip — but there’s still some time to wait.

Apple is spending “millions of dollars a day” on ChatGPT competitor

With the success of programs like ChatGPT, Apple is spending millions to fund their own conversational AI.

iOS 18 could be the update that finally makes Siri worth using

Apple is allegedly working on AI that could be integrated into Siri and Shortcuts, giving them a much-needed upgrade.

The Galaxy Z Fold 5 Thom Browne Edition is a bold new look for the foldable

Samsung has launched the Thom Browne Edition of the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and the Galaxy Watch 6. The special edition uses Thom Browne’s signature red, white, and blue stripes, along with black and gold, to create a striking new look. Other accessories included in the package have also been given the same styling. For

Messi mania drives massive uptick in Apple TV Plus and MLS subscriptions

A new report has revealed that Messi’s arrival at Inter Miami has driven a sharp increase in Apple TV Plus and MLS Season Pass subscriptions.

Android Security Bulletin for September 2023 patches a privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Android 11-13 that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Android Security Bulletin for September 2023 patches a privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Android 11-13 that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation” — The September 2023 Android security updates tackle 33 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day bug currently targeted in the wild.

UNESCO report: overreliance on online learning during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered discussion on equitable, lower-tech options (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Natasha Singer / New York Times: UNESCO report: overreliance on online learning during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered discussion on equitable, lower-tech options — Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.

Bespoke Implants are Real—if You put in the Time

A subset of hackers have RFID implants, but there is a limited catalog. When [Miana] looked for a device that would open a secure door at her work, she did not find the implant she needed, even though the lock was susceptible to cloned-chip attacks. Since no one made the implant, she set herself to

Sources: China plans to expand its ban on the use of iPhones in sensitive departments to include government-backed agencies and state-owned companies (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: China plans to expand its ban on the use of iPhones in sensitive departments to include government-backed agencies and state-owned companies — – Beijing begins by banning the devices from certain bodies — It could deal blow to Apple and amplifies a self-reliance push

Inceptive, whose AI-based software designs unique mRNA-based molecules that are licensed out to pharmaceutical companies, raised $100M from Nvidia and a16z (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Inceptive, whose AI-based software designs unique mRNA-based molecules that are licensed out to pharmaceutical companies, raised $100M from Nvidia and a16z — Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’

Caplight: secondary market shares of USDC stablecoin developer Circle were trading at a ~$4.8B valuation in August 2023; Circle was valued at $8B in April 2022 (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Caplight: secondary market shares of USDC stablecoin developer Circle were trading at a ~$4.8B valuation in August 2023; Circle was valued at $8B in April 2022 — On a fateful evening in March, Jeremy Allaire sat in a Dubai hotel room as a catastrophe unfolded.

An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over the dangers of AI, how he founded OpenAI and xAI, and more (Walter Isaacson/TIME)

Walter Isaacson / TIME: An excerpt from the new Elon Musk biography details an argument with Larry Page in 2013 over the dangers of AI, how he founded OpenAI and xAI, and more — At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial—intelligence researcher who had co-founded …

How Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” (Lane Brown/Vulture)

Lane Brown / Vulture: How Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, an important metric in entertainment, became erratic and reductive as some PR firms hack its score by paying obscure “critics” — In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia, a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley.

From battery to titanium design, Galaxy S24 Ultra leak reveals key specs

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority A leaker has posted Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra specs online. Some of the more notable claims include a titanium design and a 50MP sensor. The supposed specs are generally in line with previous claims. Like sand through the hourglass, so are the Galaxy S24 series leaks. Yes, we’ve seen

Intel’s Chips Light The Way To Faster Processor Arrays

It’s very likely indeed that whatever you are reading this on will have a multi-core processor. They’re now the norm, but the path to they octa-or-more-core chip in your phone has gone from individual processors with PCB interconnects through many generations of ever faster on-chip ones. But what if your power needs are so high-end

A test of ChatGPT’s ability to respond in underrepresented languages like Bengali and Kurdish found translation errors, fabricated words, and illogical answers (Andrew Deck/Rest of World)

Andrew Deck / Rest of World: A test of ChatGPT’s ability to respond in underrepresented languages like Bengali and Kurdish found translation errors, fabricated words, and illogical answers — Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can’t do basic information retrieval.

Tel Aviv-based Ibex Medical Analytics, which uses AI for cancer diagnostics, raised a $55M Series C led by 83North, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Tel Aviv-based Ibex Medical Analytics, which uses AI for cancer diagnostics, raised a $55M Series C led by 83North, bringing its total funding to $100M+ — The Israeli startup’s platform provides health systems and diagnostic laboratories with an integrated solution for cancer diagnosis …

The Computer That Controlled Chernobyl

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system? What computers were in control of the infamous reactor? [Chornobyl Family] has the answer in a fascinating video documentary you can

Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on Sept. 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products (CNBC)

CNBC: Tencent is launching its Hunyuan AI model for business use on Sept. 7 and integrating the model with its existing video conferencing and social media products — – Chinese tech giant Tencent is launching its artificial intelligence model “Hunyuan” for business use at an annual summit on Thursday.

London-based Shop Circle, which provides e-commerce software to merchants, raised a $120M Series A in equity and debt led by 645 Ventures and 3VC (Alex York/Forbes)

Alex York / Forbes: London-based Shop Circle, which provides e-commerce software to merchants, raised a $120M Series A in equity and debt led by 645 Ventures and 3VC — London-based e-commerce software startup Shop Circle has raised $120 million in Series A funding, the company announced Wednesday.

Vitalik Buterin co-authors paper on “Privacy Pools”, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing their full transaction history (Vishal Chawla/The Block)

Vishal Chawla / The Block: Vitalik Buterin co-authors paper on “Privacy Pools”, a blockchain protocol to verify the legality of user funds without revealing their full transaction history — – Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin co-authored a research paper on a privacy protocol named Privacy Pools.

YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators’ control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube is dropping some YouTube Studio ad controls, limiting creators’ control over pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads starting in November — YouTube is making some notable changes to the ad controls available to creators. Beginning in November, YouTube …

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key

After leaving many questions unanswered, Microsoft explains in a new postmortem the series of slipups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key.

The CWA files charges with the US NLRB against Grindr, alleging the company laid off 82 workers, or 46% of its staff, for rejecting a return-to-office mandate (Caitlin Harrington/Wired)

Caitlin Harrington / Wired: The CWA files charges with the US NLRB against Grindr, alleging the company laid off 82 workers, or 46% of its staff, for rejecting a return-to-office mandate — Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office.

The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key

After leaving many questions unanswered, Microsoft explains in a new postmortem the series of slipups that allowed attackers to steal and abuse a valuable cryptographic key.

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