Month: May 2024

Meta says it removed six influence campaigns including those from Israel and China

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Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta says it cracked down on propaganda campaigns on its platforms, including one that used AI to influence political discourse and create the illusion of wider support for certain viewpoints, according to its quarterly threat report published today. Some campaigns pushed political narratives about current events, including campaigns coming … Read more

Halide developers launch Kino, a pro video app for the iPhone

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Kino app’s custom recording settings. | Image: Lux Lux’s Halide app is popular among photographers for its approachable pro-level features, and now it’s launching Kino, a dedicated video capture app for iPhones with a similar focus on supporting the features professionals look for. Where Halide was designed to take advantage of Apple’s RAW photography support … Read more

Sony pulls interview with Neil Druckmann, citing ‘significant errors and inaccuracies’

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Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images Sony Interactive Entertainment has pulled a controversial interview with Neil Druckmann, head of The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog. Last week, Sony published a (now archived) Q&A with the Last of Us creator about the “Evolution of Storytelling.” In the interview, Druckmann spoke about … Read more

Two Samsung workers were exposed to radiation, nuclear commission says

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is under investigation after two employees were hospitalized following exposure to X-rays on May 27th, South Korea’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) announced. The exposure took place at Samsung’s Giheung chip plant, about 25 miles south of Seoul, writes CNBC. The two employees were exposed while … Read more

Orca 2: Enhancing Reasoning in Smaller Language Models – Conclusions and References

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:::info Authors: (1) Arindam Mitra; (2) Luciano Del Corro, work done while at Microsoft; (3) Shweti Mahajan, work done while at Microsoft; (4) Andres Codas, denote equal contributions; (5) Clarisse Simoes, denote equal contributions; (6) Sahaj Agarwal; (7) Xuxi Chen, work done while at Microsoft;; (8) Anastasia Razdaibiedina, work done while at Microsoft; (9) Erik … Read more

US arrests man allegedly behind enormous botnet that enabled cyberattacks and fraud

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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images It’s a scheme that “reads like it’s ripped from a screenplay,” according to one Commerce Department official. Thirty-five-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang allegedly helped run an international botnet that deployed VPN programs to infect more than 19 million IP addresses around the world. … Read more

Creator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2 million

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Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing: sustainable economic infrastructure that could help them scale rather than drown them in paperwork, filings and tracking down receipts.  Chawla thought he might have a solution and launched a music monetization platform in 2020. During the … Read more