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Financial Times: Researchers find loopholes in Nvidia’s NeMo Framework, which helps developers work with LLMs, letting them bypass safety restraints to reveal private data  —  Researchers manipulate feature in ways that could reveal sensitive information  —  A feature in Nvidia’s artificial intelligence software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: Antenna: Netflix got more new US subscriptions May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any four-day period since at least 2019  —  Shortly after change, company had highest rate of sign-ups since Antenna began tracking data in 2019 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Disney’s Hotstar plans to offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices, following JioCinema’s recent success with a similar strategy  —  Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) Hotstar will offer free streaming of cricket tournaments in India on mobile devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such experiments in the US  —  Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support.  They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Dutch government asks TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the platform, with plans to analyze how the algorithm functions  —  The Dutch government asked ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the social media platform in a bid to protect users online. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Spotify is testing a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which will automatically save a mix of users’ recently played songs for offline listening  —  / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Barracuda asked its Email Security Gateway customers on June 6 to replace infected appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20  —  It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hilary Allen / Financial Times: After the SEC’s recent actions and failures of FTX, Celsius, and Luna, Republican lawmakers proposing a crypto market bill is a jarring gift to the industry  —  Republican proposal for new legislation would legitimise the digital asset industry and undermine investor protection Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: A US judge rejects a request to relinquish control over $7.3B in disputed FTX assets; liquidators in the Bahamas argued a local judge should oversee the process  —  Liquidators had argued the assets should be overseen by a court in the Bahamas during a bankruptcy hearing for the exchange on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Aided by $14B+ in subsidies, a look at Japan’s expanding chip sector, including TSMC’s plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by terrible roads and traffic  —  Every morning, some of the world’s top chip engineers can be found stuck in traffic on Kumamoto Prefecture’s Route 30 … Lees verder op Tech Meme