The Daily Index — Thursday, September 14, 2023 · TLDR Index

Across today’s newsletters

Today’s Index

TLDR

OMENS OF EXCEPTIONAL TALENT

A collection of signs that someone might have exceptional talent, created more as a brainstorming exercise rather than as a list of requirements.

guzey.com · 3 min

TLDR AI

GOOGLE GIVES PUBLIC DATA PROJECT AN AI MAKEOVER

Google has launched an AI-driven interface for Data Commons, simplifying data access and analysis through natural language queries.

semafor.com · 2 min

TLDR Web Dev

WHEN MFA ISN'T ACTUALLY MFA

On August 29, 2023, Retool notified 27 cloud customers that there had been unauthorized access to their accounts. Retool had fallen victim to a spear phishing attack two days earlier that took advantage of one of its employees. The hackers took advantage of a Google Authenticator feature that syncs multi-factor authentication codes to the cloud, allowing them full access to the employee’s account.

retool.com · 6 min

TLDR Crypto

FONDA

The SEC charged crypto-project Stoner Cats for conducting an unregistered NFT offering that raised $8 million. One of the arguments the SEC used was that the entity promoted the potential for its NFTs' prices to increase in the secondary market. Stoner Cats agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and to destroy all NFTs in its possession but did not have to admit that it was guilty of the charges.

theblock.co · 3 min

TLDR Design

TIKTOK OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES IN-APP SHOPPING FEATURE

TikTok has officially launched its online shopping feature in the US, nearly a year after it first started testing the waters. The Chinese-owned app added a “shop” button to the homepage to bring its TikTok Shop service to more than 150 million users in the US. TikTok Shop will add in-feed videos and Live Shopping to its For You feed while also showcasing product reviews and connecting users with sellers for marketing opportunities.

gizmodo.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

COPILOT

Salesforce has unveiled Einstein Copilot, a conversational AI for more intuitive user queries. Enhanced with a "trust layer" for security and linked to Salesforce's Data Cloud, it aims to reduce AI inaccuracies while acknowledging limitations.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

TLDR AI

DO LANGUAGE MODELS REALLY UNDERSTAND THE WORLD?

Researchers looked into how well pretrained language models understand the basic building blocks and rules of the world, like 'a dog is an animal' or 'an apple is a fruit.' They found that these programs are decent at remembering some of this foundational knowledge, but aren't perfect at reasoning with it.

arxiv.org · 19 min

TLDR AI

DETECTING FAKE VIDEO PARTS WITH UMMAFORMER

With the rise of fake content made by AI, there's a need to spot the specific parts of videos that are altered. The new tool "UMMAFormer" can identify these fake segments in videos more effectively than older methods.

arxiv.org · 14 min

TLDR AI

ANOMALYGPT: EFFICIENT INDUSTRIAL ANOMALY DETECTION

While big models like MiniGPT-4 are good at understanding images, they struggle with detailed anomalies in industrial settings. This solution, AnomalyGPT, trains these models on simulated anomaly images and their descriptions, and can detect industrial faults without manual adjustments.

anomalygpt.github.io · 5 min