Does your boss sound a little funny? It might be an audio deepfake — Voice deepfake attacks against enterprises, often aimed at tricking corporate employees into transferring money to the attackers, are on the rise. And at least in some cases, they’re succeeding. [Protocol]
Protocol Radio episodes 521, 522, 523 [Protocol Radio]
Ethereum Developers Back Sept. 15 Target for Blockchain Software ‘Merge’ [Bloomberg]
John Carmack’s AGI startup raises $20M from Sequoia, Nat Friedman, Patrick Collison and others [TechMeme]
A Trump Organization executive pleaded guilty to tax fraud. Former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg will testify as a prosecution witness at the October trial. [Quartz]
Airlines are trying to resurrect the Concorde era [Recode]
5 tips to get the most out of your ‘workation’ [TheNextWeb]
The 38 Essential Honolulu Restaurants [Eater]
These Are The 8 Best Books of All Time, According to Bill Gates [Inc.]
‘The most anticipated event in crypto history’ is coming: Here’s why the Merge matters [Fast Company] #ETH
USDC: The digital dollar for the global crypto economy [Medium]
This 800-Course Virtual Learning Library Is Less Than $90 Now [Entrepreneur]
Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy [WIRED]
Hands-On Windows 4 [TWIT]
Lucky number Android 13: The latest features and updates [Google Blog]
Towards Helpful Robots: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances [Google AI Blog]
Lapham’s Quarterly is defunct [Lapham’s Quarterly]
Colorful clouds [Astronomy Magazine]
Bots Coming For Your Job? Don’t Fret – Your Humanity Is Your Strength [Salesforce 360 Blog]
Discover the Power of SAP Business Technology Platform for SAP Ariba Procurement (demo) [SAP]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 603 & BENKYO RADIO 603.

It appears that Final Fantasy VII Remake Will Be A Trilogy. Does that mean that Aerith won’t die? Does that mean that Cloud and Zack will have a different ending? It appears there will be more background story with Sephiroth, and what the hell is Project Genesis? For those of us who cried and spent over 100-200 hours playing FF7 as teenagers, the future looks bright.

Until Next Time!