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In today’s update:

📰 News: AI powered audio keyloggers

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🎲 Misc: False Facial Recognition leads to a wrongful arrest

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 Cybersecurity

AI-powered Audio Keyloggers

Next time you type your password, you might want to mute your microphone. A new AI, developed by researchers at Durham University in the UK, can steal data by analyzing the sound of keyboard strokes with over 95% accuracy!

What you should know:

1. Targeted attack: The AI model learns the sound patterns of a user using a microphone

2. Works over Audio calls: Sounds recorded over Zoom or Skype calls is enough for the AI to predict typed words, with over 92% accuracy.

Why it matters: Since the AI tech is fairly new with low awareness, malicious actors are using it in multitude of ways. For instance, there’s been a sharp uptick in scammers using AI to clone voices to impersonate people.

The AI is a new style of “Audio Keylogger” where a scammer doesn’t even need to break into your computer. For instance, audio samples of keystrokes recorded over zoom call or in a coffee shop is enough to predict what you’re typing.

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 Today in Tech

• Slack Facelift: Slack unveils its biggest redesign yet, adding a Home section, a left sidebar, a DMs section similar to the one in Teams, and “a unified inbox” Activity window (link)

• Password Crackdown on Disney: Following Netflix’s lead, Disney is actively exploring ways to crackdown on password sharing and will roll out tactics to drive monetization (link)

• Public profile verification: Meta rolls out the ability for Threads users to verify a link to their profile on other social media platforms, like Mastodon (link)

• Silicon wars: Biden signs an executive order banning US companies from investing in some chinese companies developing advanced chips and quantum computers, starting in 2024 (link)

• Cybersecurity 🤝🏼 AI: The US debuts a DARPA contest to build AI systems that can proactively identify and fix software flaws, with help from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI (link)

• New ChatGPT features: OpenAI expands “custom instructions”, the user's details that ChatGPT should remember, to all users, after launching the ChatGPT Plus beta feature in July 2023 (link)

 Funding Tracker

• Build LLM applications: Berlin-based Deepset, which helps companies build “complex LLM applications” and add NLP to apps, raised $30M.

• Tackle Chargebacks: Chargeflow, which uses AI to help businesses deal with chargeback disputes, raised $14M.

• Visualize data in AR: California-based Virtualitics, which provides data visualizations that can be viewed in AR and VR, raised a $37M Series C