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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, SamMobile, Wccftech, SecurityWeek, Google Cloud Blog, The Hacker News, 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, CNBC, PhoneArena, People, iDownloadBlog.com, Supercharged, Trusted Reviews, Neowin, Tom's Guide, GSMArena.com, NewsBytes, and SamMobile
X: @tim_cook, @ianfogg42, @dylanmcd8, and @leakerapple
| 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, and Business Insider
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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.| 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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| 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| 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| Bloomberg: |
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.| 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
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LinkedIn: George A. Tilesch and Michael Eigenmann
Forums: Hacker News and r/slatestarcodex
| 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| 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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Forums: r/technology, r/iphone, and Ars OpenForum
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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 … | Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, and Binance Labs significantly cut dealmaking since Q1 2022; Coinbase did 11 deals in Q3, down from 65 in Q1 2022 — Even crypto companies are pulling back on crypto venture capital. … It's the all-time biggest backer of industry startups … | Washington Post: |
Meta calls for legislation requiring app stores to get parental approval for kids aged 13 to 15 to download apps, pushing Google and Apple to play a bigger role — The tech giant is calling for legislation requiring that parents approve teens' downloads on app stores like Google and Apple| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Notes, an experiment to let users that opt-in via Search Labs annotate search results, including with images and colorful fonts — Ever wanted to add your own annotations to search results you find on Google? With Google's new “Notes” experiment, launching Wednesday as an opt …
More: Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, The Keyword, TechRadar, Search Engine Journal, and How-To Geek
| 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. X: @newyorker, @glynco, @kashhill, @newyorker, @datasociety, @eyalpress, @openmicmedia, and @newyorker
LinkedIn: Andrew Ferguson, Anna Chiara Sai, and Daniel (Dan) Lieb
| 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, CNBC, 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
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