The Daily Index — Wednesday, November 29, 2023 · TLDR Index

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TLDR AI

META AI INTRODUCES CICERO

Meta’s CICERO is the first AI agent to achieve human-level performance in the strategy game Diplomacy.

ai.meta.com · 5 min

TLDR InfoSec

DESIGN FLAW IN GOOGLE WORKSPACE COULD LET ATTACKERS GAIN UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS

Google Workspace's domain-wide delegation feature has a severe design flaw dubbed DeleFriend that enables privilege escalation without admin access. Attackers could gain unauthorized Workspace API access for theft, exfiltration, and other unauthorized actions domain-wide. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow exfiltration of sensitive data from Google services like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and others.

thehackernews.com · 3 min

TLDR Crypto

SEC OPENS PUBLIC COMMENTS ON FRANKLIN TEMPLETON AND HASHDEX SPOT BITCOIN ETFS

The SEC is inviting public commentary on pending ETF applications from Franklin Templeton and Hashdex. This unexpected early request, coming two weeks after the SEC extended the decision deadline, suggests potential approvals in early January. However, swift approval might not necessarily mean immediate launches. The SEC is also seeking feedback on market manipulation susceptibility, liquidity, pricing mechanisms, and other concerns regarding the proposed ETFs.

thedefiant.io · 2 min

TLDR Design

META DESIGNED PLATFORMS TO GET CHILDREN ADDICTED, COURT DOCUMENTS ALLEGE

The attorneys general of 33 states filed a lawsuit against Meta in late October, claiming the company deliberately engineered its platforms to entice children and knowingly allowed underage users to hold accounts. The lawsuit alleges Meta created harmful and addictive products for children with knowledge of their dangers.

theguardian.com · 3 min

TLDR Founders

STATE OF OPEN FINANCE 2023

Open Banking seems to have been on a slow boil for a while, but it's making headlines more recently with real-time payments launching in the US. This report gives you a global breakdown of the state of play within open finance, as well as providing some definitions and a 101.

twimbit.com · 10 min

TLDR AI

STABILITY AI RELEASES SDXL TURBO

Stability AI has released a new model that can generate high resolution images in 207ms. It doesn’t use LCM, which is what most of the field has moved towards. Instead, it uses a novel distillation technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation. Its weights and code have been used for research.

stability.ai · 3 min

TLDR AI

ENHANCING PRIVACY IN SIGN LANGUAGE VIDEOS

DiffSLVA is an innovative method for anonymizing sign language videos while preserving linguistic content. This technique, which uses pre-trained diffusion models and a specialized module for facial expressions, overcomes previous limitations by not requiring precise pose estimation.

arxiv.org · 16 min

TLDR AI

ENHANCING DATASET DISTILLATION WITH GENERATIVE DIFFUSION TECHNIQUES

A new method using generative diffusion techniques has been developed to create surrogate datasets that are more representative and diverse while requiring significantly less computational resources.

arxiv.org · 14 min

TLDR AI

ADVANCED VIDEO SUPER-RESOLUTION THROUGH DIFFUSION MODELS

StableVSR is a novel approach to video super-resolution (VSR) that leverages Diffusion Models and a Temporal Conditioning Module to enhance the quality of upscaled videos.

arxiv.org · 14 min