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Monday Byte: 8 Bits of information to kick start your week

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Hi there! 👋

On this edition:

1. Apple reveals the iPhone 15📱

   1. Apple just announced the iPhone 15 — here are the key new features and how to preorder (Business Insider)

      1. Yeah, I know… but this time it comes with USB-C and you can also get it with a Titanium frame 💸

2. Gemini is getting closer to public release ♊️

   1. Google nears release of AI software Gemini, The Information reports (Reuters)

      1. Much more than just text. BARD leverages reinforcement learning techniques to optimize model architectures and hyperparameters, while Gemini utilizes generative adversarial networks (GANs) for high-fidelity image synthesis. 🤖

3. Attention Mac users! MetaStealer is on the loose 🚨👾

   1. This dangerous new Mac malware steals your credit card info (Digital Trends)

      1. A DMG file inside a PDF that can read the Mac’s Keychain (logins, passwords, credit cards info, encryption keys, etc…) 👹

4. The US Government released a guide on how to identify Deepfakes 🥸

   1. Contextualizing Deepfake Threats to Organizations (Defense.gov)

      1. Alex Syvitski put together a short and concise explanation to the 18-page document published by the NSA, FBI and CISA… Highly recommended! ➡️ Basic Guide to Detect Deepfake (Alex Syvitski via LinkedIn) 🤓

5. Meet the $800K / year engineer 💰💰💰

   1. How I Became An $800K Meta Staff Engineer (Taro)

      1. Skill, consistency and “some luck“ made this guy go from the not-so-despicable $390K to an amazing $823K/year working at Meta (Facebook) in 4.5 years 🤯

6. The Polish drinks company Dictador appointed a humanoid as their CEO 🤖🥃

   1. The humanoid robot CEO of a drinks company says she doesn't have weekends and is 'always on 24/7' (Yahoo Finance)

      1. Mika will help the company leverage on her AI brain for complex tasks, but still human executives will analyze and execute big decisions. Definitely a great boost in Marketing for the spirits-producer 🤑

7. How urgent is it to include Generative AI into your business? 🚥⏰

   1. Where Should Your Company Start with GenAI? (Harvard Business Review)

      1. Map your business into a decision matrix to identify how big would be its impact in it 🔮

8. Expert penetration tester explains on simple words how to do the trick 🥷

   1. Hacker Answers Penetration Test Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED (WIRED via YouTube)

      1. Just like the link you just clicked tells me who you are and how you landed into my newsletter, this expert explains why you should not click just any link on the Internet 😳

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