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Data: as of August 2023, IBM had 6,363 cybersecurity patents, followed by Huawei with 5,735 and Tencent with 4,803; six of the top 10 companies were Chinese (Akinobu Iwasawa/Nikkei Asia)

Akinobu Iwasawa / Nikkei Asia: Data: as of August 2023, IBM had 6,363 cybersecurity patents, followed by Huawei with 5,735 and Tencent with 4,803; six of the top 10 companies were Chinese — Chinese companies account for 6 of top 10 in field while IBM remains No. 1 — Chinese companies have made headway … http://www.techmeme.com/231105/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231105p6

Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, AI deepfake detection, and more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Q&A with Adobe General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer Dana Rao on the Content Authenticity Initiative, content credentials, AI deepfake detection, and more — Instead of detecting fakes, this effort aims to authenticate and track online images from the start; Adobe's chief trust officer on the strategy http://www.techmeme.com/231105/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231105p5

A eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple (Alex Cranz/The Verge)

Alex Cranz / The Verge: A eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple — The Touch Bar was too ahead of its time. This happens occasionally. We finally reach the point we can make a really cool idea … http://www.techmeme.com/231104/p7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231104p7

Discord says links to files uploaded to its servers will expire after 24 hours to reduce the amount of malware distributed using its CDN, starting later in 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Discord says links to files uploaded to its servers will expire after 24 hours to reduce the amount of malware distributed using its CDN, starting later in 2023 — Discord will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to block attackers from using its CDN … http://www.techmeme.com/231104/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231104p6

How chip companies are experimenting with new materials, including synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How chip companies are experimenting with new materials, including synthetic diamonds and ultrapure glass, to improve performance and combat heat in microchips — To beat the heat that our devices throw off, engineers are experimenting with synthetic diamonds, ultrapure glass and other obscure materials http://www.techmeme.com/231104/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231104p5

China says it attended the UK AI Safety Summit's ministerial meeting on its second day, despite not being listed by the UK among the "like-minded" participants (Reuters)

Reuters: China says it attended the UK AI Safety Summit's ministerial meeting on its second day, despite not being listed by the UK among the “like-minded” participants — China said it attended a top-level ministerial meeting at the UK AI Safety Summit on Thursday … http://www.techmeme.com/231103/p19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231103p19

OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to "OpenSea 2.0"; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained — A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. http://www.techmeme.com/231103/p18?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a231103p18