OpenAI says it has been using GPT-4 to enforce its content policies and says some of its customers are already using it for content moderation (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Can ChatGPT become a content moderator?
OpenAI has been using its most advanced large language model to enforce the company’s content policies, marking a major milestone.
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OpenAI says the company has been using GPT-4 to enforce its content policies and says some of its customers are already using the LLM for content moderation
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Setapp, known for its Mac and iOS app subscription service, plans to launch an alternative app store for iOS and iPadOS next year in the EU, thanks to the DMA (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
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Setapp plots 2024 EU-only alternative App Store for iOS
Setapp is planning to launch its own alternative App Store in the EU in 2024, taking advantage of law changes that will allow third-party digital s...
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Setapp, known for its Mac and iOS app subscription service, plans to open an alternative iOS and iPadOS app store in 2024 in the EU, taking advantage of the DMA
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The SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to other payment options (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
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Apple Can Keep App Store Rules for Now as Top Court Spurns Epic
The US Supreme Court let Apple Inc. keep its App Store payment rules in place for the time being, rejecting an Epic Games Inc. request that would h...
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SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store payment rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to cheaper options
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An analysis of Tencent's Sogou Input Method, the top tool in China for inputting Chinese characters with 450M+ MAUs, finds data-leaking flaws in its encryption (The Citizen Lab)
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β€œPlease do not make it public”: Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping - The Citizen Lab
In this report, we analyze the Windows, Android, and iOS versions of Tencent’s Sogou Input Method, the most popular Chinese-language input method...
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Analysis: Tencent
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Google changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from "in-stream ads" to "skippable ads", after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers (Catherine Perloff/Adweek) https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/youtube-changes-name-of-ad-product-amid-inventory-quality-scandal/
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Google renames “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, to “more accurately describe the ad format”, after an Adalytics report accused YouTube of misleading buyers
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Sources: in late 2020, the NSA discovered that Chinese hackers had access to Japanese defense networks, with the problem persisting until at least early 2021 (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/07/china-japan-hack-pentagon/
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Sources: in the fall of 2020, the NSA discovered that Chinese hackers had access to Japanese defense networks; the problem persisted until at least fall 2021
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The SEC's recent cyber regulations will grow industry awareness but the new incident reporting rules are redundant, misdirected, and overlap with CISA reporting (Chris Krebs/Financial Times) https://t.co/hlhuLHdKfy
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PayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers gradually (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
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PayPal Launches a Stablecoin in Latest Crypto Payments Push
PayPal Holdings Inc. is rolling out a stablecoin, the first by a large financial company and a potentially significant boost to the sluggish adopti...
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PayPal debuts PYUSD, a Paxos-issued stablecoin and fully backed by USD deposits, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US users gradually
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Toshiba announces a $14B tender offer to take the company private at $32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press)
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Troubled Toshiba announces buyout offer led by Japan businesses
Toshiba has announced a 2 trillion yen, or $14 billion, tender offer in a move that would take it private, as the scandal-tarnished Japanese electr...
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Toshiba announces a ~$14B tender offer to take the company private at ~$32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies
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