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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans to exit its Goldman Sachs contract in 12 to 15 months, ending their consumer partnership, including for credit card and savings accounts — Tech giant proposed exiting contract in about 12-to-15 months — Apple is pulling the plug on its credit-card partnership with Goldman Sachs …
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| Mike Seymour / fxguide: |
Unity plans to cut 265 jobs, or 3.8% of its workforce, and end its services deal with VFX company Wētā FX to focus on its core business in a “company reset” — UPDATE: Scroll down for a statement from WētāFX: — Reuters is reporting that Unity Software …
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| Graham Starr / Bloomberg: |
Okta tells customers that hackers who breached its network stole information on all users of its customer support system, greater than the 1% claimed previously — - Okta had earlier said breach affected about 1% of customers — Company said some Okta employee information was also stolen
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| Variety: |
Robert De Niro criticizes Apple and the Gotham Awards, after sources say Apple cut part of his speech slamming Donald Trump, which he read anyway from his phone — The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor was gearing up to slam Donald Trump at Monday's Gotham Awards, but when he took the stage …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases an emergency security update to fix Chrome's sixth zero-day in 2023, related to the Skia open-source 2D graphics library and found by Google TAG — Google has fixed the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability this year in an emergency security update released today to counter ongoing exploitation in attacks.| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a Me in 2023 feature that assigns users one of 12 themes to describe their listening habits, on mobile and desktop — The listening recap, available Wednesday, takes over social media every year — It's the time of year many people have been anxiously awaiting: Spotify Wrapped season.
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| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple pays Arm under 30 cents per device to license Arm's IP, the lowest rate among Arm's smartphone customers; Apple accounts for <5% of Arm's sales — In 2017, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son gathered a group of executives from Arm Holdings, the British chip designer SoftBank had just bought …
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| Bloomberg: |
How deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, a former classmate, an ordeal further complicated by the lack of clear US laws — A group of young women in a New York City suburb, horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online, took matters into their own hands.
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Adam D'Angelo, who will remain on OpenAI's board despite agreeing to oust Sam Altman and who was a key figure in negotiations to bring Altman back — Adam D'Angelo will continue to serve on the board despite previously agreeing to oust Altman as CEO and running a company that competes with ChatGPT.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at Ayaneo's new $199+ Retro Mini PC AM01, styled on Apple's 1980s-era Macintosh, with AMD Ryzen chips, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage — Ayaneo, which is mostly known for making handheld gaming consoles, just fully revealed the new Retro Mini PC AM01 after teasing it a few weeks ago.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: British AI startup Stability AI held early-stage talks with multiple companies about a sale, as executives face investor pressure over its finances — - Move follows letter from investor Coatue calling for changes — Coatue concerned about Stability AI's financial position
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung launches its Samsung Internet browser on Windows via the Microsoft Store, offering a similar design to Chrome — Samsung Internet has moved out of the mobile space and onto the desktop with a new version available through the Microsoft Store for Windows PCs.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google Registry launches a .meme top level domain, adding to .dad, .boo, .ing, and its other unconventional domain names — If you ever wanted to make your website sound a little more silly, now's your chance. Google Registry just released a new top-level domain that lets you slap a big ol' .meme at the end of your website.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jack Ma praised PDD Holdings while urging Alibaba to change and “correct its course”, in a rare reply to a staff post on Alibaba's internal forum — - The billionaire replied to an employee on an internal forum — Ma congratulated archrival for pushing the boundaries| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Wormhole, a messaging protocol started by Jump Crypto to let blockchain developers communicate, raised $225M at a $2.5B valuation, 2023's largest crypto raise — In a parched fundraising landscape, the team behind Wormhole, the messaging protocol that lets developers communicate across different blockchains …
More: Blockworks, The Block, CoinDesk, Wormhole, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Scott Hayden / Road to VR: |
Meta pauses shipments of the Quest 3's Elite Strap with Battery after widespread user reports of a charging fault that renders the battery useless — Meta paused shipments of its Elite Strap with Battery for Quest 3 amid widespread user reports of a charging fault that renders the battery useless.
More: Dexerto, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, KitGuru, MIXED Reality News, UploadVR, and The Verge
| New York Times: |
GM CEO Mary Barra says the company plans to slow Cruise's expansion and significantly cut spending at the self-driving unit in response to safety concerns — General Motors will “substantially lower spending” on autonomous vehicle efforts in 2024 after accidents with its self-driving taxis in San Francisco.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Wired, The Verge, and Digital Trends
| Bloomberg: |
Meta tells US officials that the company plans to block new political ads on Facebook and Instagram one week before the 2024 election, similar to past elections — - Facebook owner to block political ads one week before US vote — First US election with broad generative AI will test democracy| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers discover six attacks that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions, impacting the Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 through the latest 5.4 spec — Researchers at Eurecom have developed six new attacks collectively named ‘BLUFFS’ that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Eurecom, Bluetooth® Technology Website, SecurityWeek, and National Vulnerability …. Forums: r/InfoSecNews
| Financial Times: |
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky takes a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft at re:Invent: “You don't want a cloud provider that's beholden primarily to one model provider” — Adam Selipsky says companies 'don't want a cloud provider that's beholden primarily to one model provider'| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
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A look at Foxconn's struggles to manufacture the iPhone 15 in India, contending with language barriers, labor disputes, regulatory hurdles, and more — Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders. — • SUNGUVARCHATRAM, INDIA
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