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Intel patches a bug affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs that lets code running inside a VM crash hypervisors, a risk to cloud providers in particular — Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors. — Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix …
More: Tavis Ormandy, Intel, BleepingComputer, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, Wccftech, SecurityWeek, Google Cloud Blog, LWN.net, and The Register
Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange. X: @_markel___, @kayseesee, @sirdarckcat, @_saagarjha, @wdormann, @taviso, @fkaasan, @kebabman, @flowyroll, @philvenables, and @royalhansen. LinkedIn: Yousif Hussin
Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple extends free usage of Emergency SOS on iPhone 14 for two more years, to September 2025; the company has not yet announced how much Emergency SOS will cost — Apple today announced it is extending the free usage period for Emergency SOS satellite features for iPhone 14 users.
More: Apple, MacRumors, PhoneArena, People, iDownloadBlog.com, Supercharged, Trusted Reviews, SamMobile, Neowin, Tom's Guide, GSMArena.com, and NewsBytes
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| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Epic v. Google: Sundar Pichai confirms Google paid Apple 36% of the search revenue generated on iPhones, saying the total payment “was well over $10B” in 2022 — Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, testified on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend his company against monopoly claims.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
US v. Google raises the question of how antitrust law handles a company becoming dominant due to offering a far superior product, especially if the DOJ wins — I've noted my skepticism regarding the antitrust attacks on the current Google antitrust trial regarding how it pays to have its search placed …
More: Daring Fireball, Computing, New York Times, Business Insider, and iThinkDifferent
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @eARCwelder@mastodon.social
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| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is pausing new ChatGPT Plus signups “for a bit” as “the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity” — OpenAI has paused new ChatGPT Plus signups due to overwhelming demand for new features introduced at recent DevDay conference.
Source: @sama. More: Windows Central, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, CoinGeek, Livemint, Forbes, The Decoder, Business Today, Beyond Search, The Economic Times, MSPoweruser, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure as part of a September plea deal with Sergei Makinin, the hacker behind the operation — The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and its infrastructure this week following a September plea deal with the hacker behind the operation.
More: US Department of Justice, Intezer, BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, Hackread, PCMag, SecurityWeek, Cybernews.com, Infosecurity, SiliconANGLE, Flashpoint, and The Register
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Three young hackers behind Mirai talk about building the DDoS botnet, losing control of their monster, their work for the FBI as part of a plea deal, and more — Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld … | Nicola Davis / The Guardian: |
A study found that AI-generated photos of faces, particularly white faces, were perceived as more real by survey participants than photos of actual people — Photographs were seen as less realistic than computer images but there was no difference with pictures of people of colour| Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first — Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
More: Science, Google DeepMind, MIT Technology Review, The Register, E&T News, WinBuzzer, Nature, TechCrunch, Verdict, Metaverse Post, MSPoweruser, Digital Trends, Silicon Republic, MarkTechPost, Wired, BBC, TNW, New York Post, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, The Decoder, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Tech Brew, Telegraph, Engadget, BGR, and The Messenger
X: @massachusettswx, @lapi_epfl, @joenandez, @peterwbattaglia, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, @rlove, @aravindeo, and @demishassabis
LinkedIn: George A. Tilesch and Michael Eigenmann
Forums: Hacker News and r/slatestarcodex
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Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3,000 km network that they claim is the world's first internet network to achieve a “stable and reliable” 1.2Tbps bandwidth — - Huawei, Tsinghua and China Mobile claim an industry first — The network spans 3,000 km from Beijing to Guangzhou| VideoCardz.com: |
Asus apologizes for accidentally printing “Evangenlion”, not “Evangelion”, on new $700 ROG Maximus Z790 Hero EVA-02 Edition motherboards and offers replacements — ASUS will replace misprinted Evangelion motherboard parts — Purely cosmetic part has misspelled logo on $700 motherboard.| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
In 2022, Meta quietly began letting ads say past US elections were “rigged” or “stolen”; sources say execs made the decision based on free speech considerations — Company weighed free-speech considerations in changing its policy last year| Chris Velazco / Washington Post: |
Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, a Sunbird-based app that lets Phone (2) users send iMessages to iPhone contacts, on November 17 — Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before — Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
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Threads: @wongmjane, @nothing, @danseifert, @danseifert, @carnage4life, @chrispirillo, @mishaal_rahman, @parkerortolani, @mishaal_rahman, @saltrif, and @parkerortolani
X: @nothing, @hoagie_fun, @captain2phones, @bengeskin, @panzer, @om, @ianzelbo, @theryanprhodes, @abhishekmarkets, @camcovington, @mkbhd, @getpeid, @jonesyoutubejt, @nandoprince93, and @nothing. LinkedIn: Kyle Kiang
Forums: r/technology, r/iphone, and Ars OpenForum
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange and wallet service Blockchain.com raised a $110M Series E led by Kingsway, a source says at less than half of its $14B valuation in spring 2022 — - Prior investor Kingsway led the Series E funding round — Raise leaves valuation at less than half of prior $14 billion| Rest of World: |
An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era for Chinese e-commerce by expanding overseas — China is no longer just the world's factory; now, it's also the world's mall. As online shopping slows within China … | Ko Fujioka / Nikkei Asia: |
Japan proposes making Apple, Google, and other app store operators responsible for paying consumption taxes on content sold by foreign developers — Government targets platform operators as route to hard-to-reach small developers — Google and Apple will be required to pay consumption taxes … | Eyal Press / New Yorker: |
A look at some wrongful arrests in the US due to bad facial recognition matches, and how “automation bias” could lead police to ignore contradictory evidence — Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation.
More: Euractiv and The Information
X: @newyorker, @glynco, @kashhill, @newyorker, @datasociety, @eyalpress, @openmicmedia, and @newyorker
| Washington Post: |
Meta calls for legislation to require app stores to get parental approval for kids age 13 to 15 to download apps, pushing for a bigger role for Google and Apple — The tech giant is calling for legislation requiring that parents approve teens' downloads on app stores like Google and Apple| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Amazon announces Astro for Business, letting SMBs buy its Alexa-powered Astro security robot for $2,350 per unit for sites no larger than 5,000 square feet — Astro for Business aims to automate nighttime patrols. — It's been a couple of years since Amazon first showed off Astro …
More: The Verge, ZDNet, TechRadar, and Digital Trends
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Be My Eyes, an app for blind people, says Microsoft plans to integrate its Be My AI into the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk for customer service calls — - Company is working with Be My Eyes app for visually impaired — Service will help users install software updates, troubleshoot
More: Business Wire
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