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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Sam Altman expects “to raise a lot more over time” from Microsoft and other investors to keep up with the punishing costs of building more sophisticated LLMs — Sam Altman expects big tech group will back start-up's mission to create software as intelligent as humans
More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Beyond Search, Insider, Neowin, The Decoder, Metaverse Post, and Tech.co
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LinkedIn: Pernille Tranberg, Aun Naqvi, Simon Smith, Clay Eltzroth, Michael Hobbs, and Jose Hoyos. Forums: r/singularity
| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Google sues unnamed individuals in India and Vietnam for tricking US-based SMB owners with Facebook accounts into clicking fake Bard ads that install malware — Lawsuit attributes the alleged scheme to hackers in India and Vietnam — Scammers are capitalizing on the rush of consumer interest …
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, PCMag, Cybernews.com, The Messenger, 9to5Google, Reuters, Neowin, MSPoweruser, BNN Bloomberg, and MediaPost
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's work on its “ambitious and compelling” OS updates for 2024, paused for a week after hitting a key milestone in iOS 18 and macOS 15 development — Apple's recent software development delay underscores the need to get ambitious 2024 updates right.
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, MobileSyrup, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie, iMore, TechRadar, Cult of Mac, BGR, Android Headlines, KnowTechie, MySmartPrice, GSMArena.com, Pocket-lint, Wccftech, TweakTown, Pocketnow, Phandroid, Benzinga, The Verge, Forbes, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, Supercharged, AppleInsider, and AppleInsider
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Forums: r/technology, r/sideloaded, r/jailbreak, r/ios, r/iphone, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Maddie Stone / The Verge: |
After Apple voiced support for California's Right to Repair Act, a look at what's next for the movement, like tackling unsustainable designs and software locks — Apple stunned the world when it came out in support of California's right-to-repair law. But software locks and other obstacles seem …
More: New York Times, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iFixit News, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
In a first, researchers show a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise — An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key. — For the first time …
More: eprint.iacr.org. Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, @acdha@code4lib.social, and @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
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Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches a new Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups that is designed to be less disruptive than group calls, which ring every group member — WhatsApp is rolling out a new Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups, the Meta-owned company announced on Monday.
More: The Verge, Daily Mail, Metro.co.uk, The Sun, Huawei Central, and WABetaInfo
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Nvidia announces the H200, an update to its standalone H100 accelerator that swaps 5.3Gbps/pin HBM3 memory for 6.5Gbps/pin HBM3E memory and ships in Q2 2024 — With faster and higher capacity HBM3E memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce names longtime executive Denise Dresser as Slack CEO, its third leader in the past year; Dresser was previously president of accelerated industries — “Denise is an incredible business leader who has excelled at every level in her career at Salesforce,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff … | Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
In a major policy change, EWS says 2,100 banks on payment app Zelle began refunding imposter scam victims on June 30, 2023, after US lawmaker and CFPB pressure — Banks on the payment app Zelle have begun refunding victims of imposter scams to address consumer protection concerns raised … | Will Greenwald / PCMag: |
Sony PlayStation Portal review: a limited, expensive gaming handheld with a mediocre screen that does little besides enable Remote Play streaming from a PS5 — A remote handheld for your PlayStation 5 … Many gaming accessories serve specific purposes, catering to a user base by performing a single task extremely well.
More: The Verge, The Verge, TechRadar, CNET, CNET, Kotaku, BGR, Digital Trends, Polygon, Tom's Guide, T3, Video Games Chronicle, Kotaku, GamingBolt, Push Square, and TechSpot
X: @345triangle, @gadgetsboy, @jordanmiddler, @jordanmiddler, @jetscott, @pure_ps, @tomwarren, and @marioprime. Forums: r/PS5
| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration directs agencies to work on giving up airwaves to make room for commercial 5G networks, part of the National Spectrum Strategy — - Biden administration releases National Spectrum Strategy — Need to make better use of airwaves, administration says
More: Reuters, The White House, and U.S. Department of Commerce
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australian telecom Optus says that “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade” caused the November 8 outage that impacted 10M+ customers — Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40% …
More: ABC, DatacenterDynamics, Tech Monitor, iTnews, and Australian Financial Review
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