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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleads guilty to hacking and stealing over $12.3M from Nirvana Finance and an unnamed crypto exchange in July 2022   —  Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022.

Erin Woo / The Information : A look at the race for wearable AI as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed adding GPT-4 with Vision to Snap devices   —  Next year's artificial intelligence battle is coming into focus—and it's all about glasses.

Hannah Miao / Wall Street Journal : Robinhood received ~$1.1B in account transfers since it began offering a 1% match on transferred brokerage accounts on October 23, with 150+ transfers of $1M+   —  Trading app receives $1.1 billion in account transfers since offering 1% match  —  Robinhood Markets , known for a clientele …

A number of federal agencies are lagging behind on deadlines and efforts to better their management of artificial intelligence , as the technology’s footprint is expanding in the federal government. "Although certain federal agencies have taken initial steps to comply with guidance and statutory requirements, key efforts to strengthen management of AI have missed deadlines and are not yet completed," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report issued this week says. The report makes dozens of recommendations to 19 agencies to take additional steps to fully implement requirements on AI that are federally mandated. Those recommendations include the development of plans across agencies on the application of the technology, the use of inventories to include required information and the issuing of guidance on AI usage. BIPARTISAN LAWMAKERS EYE AI SAFEGUARDS FOR US AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY The report found that 20 of the 23 agencies reported about 1,200 current or planned ch...

Gun rights groups are posturing to defy the Justice Department’s model legislation published this week that gives states a framework for codifying gun storage rules.  On Wednesday, the DOJ published a framework aimed at helping "more states enact sensible gun-safety laws," and includes requirements for securing firearms kept in residences and vehicles and requirements for reporting of lost or stolen firearms to law enforcement.  "We cannot resign ourselves to losing our neighbors, our loved ones — even our children — to misuse of firearms that could have been kept safely out of reach," Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said of the announcement. "The model legislation announced today provides states with new tools to improve the safety of legally-owned firearms and reduce the tragic toll of gun violence in our communities." However, Second Amendment advocacy groups Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) say the models ...

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch : YouTube creators MrBeast and Chucky Appleby launch ViewStats, which uses the YouTube API to unveil detailed stats about channels for creators and fans, in beta   —  The top YouTuber in the U.S., MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) co-founded the new analytics platform ViewStats, which is now available in beta.

President Biden's re-election campaign is launching a targeted effort to shore up support from Black voters in two swing states as his backing from the traditionally blue voting bloc continues to falter. The effort, centered around an ad that will run in Georgia and North Carolina, comes after a bad month for Biden that saw his likely general election opponent, former President Trump, make significant gains among Black voters. Democratic strategists and liberal political pundits have also warned that Black enthusiasm for Biden's re-election was waning. The ad, titled "Compete," shows Patrick Brown, a Black farmer from North Carolina, praising Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for what he said was the administration's investment in Black farming communities. DEMOCRATS BLEEDING THE NON-WHITE, WORKING CLASS VOTE, BOOK SAYS: ‘LOOK IN THE MIRROR’ "Joe Biden gets it. He is invested in us, getting us access to land, broadband, capital and infrastructure, ...