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Hackers breached EA with lies & cookies - Linus tells crackpot to "SHUT THE HELL UP" - Facebook AI deepfakes words

June 11, 2021

Hi folks, here's today's edition of the newsletter.

Linus Torvalds went hard at a poster in a Linux kernel maintenance thread asking them to "SHUT THE HELL UP" when the person started propagating conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccination.

Amazon Music has received a new feature in the U.S. called DJ Mode which plays certain stations with added commentary to make the content feel more vibrant like actual DJ-hosted radio.

Google will be enhancing its Search service to better protect people from harassment online. It will do this by automatically demoting search rankings of predatory websites. Read more...

Facebook today has announced its TextStyleBrush AI research project. The new AI can copy text styles from images and effectively reproduce new images with the same replicated style. Read more...

A regulatory filing has been spotted in the Eurasian Economic Commission's database which likely hints at model numbers for the upcoming iPhone 13. Complete specs are still unknown. Read more...

The latest BootCamp update finally brings native support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers to Windows 10 on macOS. However, support is limited to Macs running the T2 security chip.

It reportedly took hackers that breached data from Electronic Arts just $10 worth of stolen cookies with Slack login information to masquerade as employees and steal close to 780GB of game data.

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