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A Cessna business jet crashed in the early hours of Saturday in Murrieta, California. (Representational) California: A Cessna business jet crashed close to French Valley Airport in the early hours of Saturday in Murrieta, California, reported CNN citing Federal Aviation Administration. The Riverside County sheriff’s office said all six passengers on board the aircraft were found dead at the site. Around 4.15 am (local time), the flight from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas crashed about 65 miles north of San Diego, according to the FAA. An acre of vegetation was destroyed by the fire before it was doused,…

Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, since April, The Wall Street Journal reported this morning. Med-PaLM 2 is a variant of PaLM 2, which was announced at Google I/O in May this year. PaLM 2 is the language model underpinning Google’s Bard.The paper also mentions research Google made public in May (pdf) showing that Med-PaLM 2 still suffers from some of the accuracy issues we’re already used to seeing in large language models. In the study, physicians found more inaccuracies and…

BlackRock’s PR campaign for a Bitcoin ETF, Gemini’s fight with DCG over Earn program funds, and CEX employees’ sentiment. Read Full Article

Stablecoin issuers Circle and Tether have frozen over $65 million in assets tied to the suspected exploit of cross-chain router protocol Multichain. The move follows unexplained large outflows from the Multichain MPC bridge on July 6.  According to the knowledge graph protocol 0xScope, three addresses that received at least $63.2 million in USD Coin (USDC) from Multichain are now frozen. Another report from the Fantom Foundation notes that more than $2.5 million in Tether (USDT) had also been frozen from two addresses listed by Etherscan as “Multichain Suspicious Addresses”. Over $125 million worth in cryptocurrencies were withdrawn from multiple wallets…

The Aptos Foundation’s official Twitter account was compromised recently by scammers. According to a warning tweet by Aptos Labs, the hackers took control of the @Aptos_Network account on Twitter, using it to spread misinformation about a fake APT airdrop.  The scammers posted a tweet claiming Aptos was doing a Season 2 airdrop, distributing free tokens, and directing users to a fake website asking them to connect their digital wallets.    We’ve received official communication from Aptos Foundation that @Aptos_Network has been compromised. The latest tweet regarding an $APT airdrop is fraudulent. Please DO NOT engage with that tweet or the…

Fighting has focused on Omdurman in recent day. CAIRO: At least 22 people were killed and scores injured in an air strike by Sudan’s army on western Omdurman, the Khartoum state health ministry said on Saturday, as the war between the country’s military factions entered its 12th week. While the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) quickly dominated the capital Khartoum and its sister cities Omdurman and Bahri after fighting broke out on April 15, the army has launched air and artillery strikes. The fighting, for which no mediation efforts have succeeded thus far, threatens to drag the country into a…

G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots — Gizmodo Bot, for example — with no other indication that the article was created using an AI chatbot. Unsurprisingly, the stories needed a lot of work.The internal reaction to Gizmodo’s first chatbot-created story — a chronological list of Star Wars movies that wasn’t chronological — wasn’t exactly enthusiastic, with journalists reportedly writing in Slack…

Twitter’s plans to roll out a payment platform took a major step forward this week as its subsidiary, Twitter Payments, received its first money transmitter licenses in the United States states of Michigan, New Hampshire and Missouri.  The company — reportedly building a solution with crypto in mind — is seeking to provide transfer services in all 50 U.S. states, with further approvals still pending and no clear timeline in place. As with every business, Twitter is seeking new sources of revenue supported by its massive user base. In a Twitter Space event in 2022, Musk said he envisioned allowing…

The regulator also noted that as of June 2023, 12 complaints were pending for more than three months, the data showed. A total of 3,079 complaints against companies and market intermediaries have been disposed of through Sebi’s SCORES platform in June. At the beginning of June, as many as 3,141 complaints were pending, and 3,967 fresh complaints were received, according to the data released by markets regulator Sebi. The regulator also noted that as of June 2023, 12 complaints were pending for more than three months, the data showed. These complaints were related to investment advisers and…

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More As the cookieless future continues to gain momentum, the global digital advertising sector is experiencing a tectonic shift. Companies are being forced to reimagine the way they reach out to customers. Online marketing has been dominated by third-party cookies — tracking codes posted on websites to extract users’ information — and data brokers who sell the information in bulk.  However, this multibillion-dollar business, perpetuated for decades, is now in checkmate by a perfect trifecta: new privacy…