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| 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.
More: Spotify, Spotify, 9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable, TechRadar, ZDNet, Cincinnati.com, Tom's Guide, Android Central, Forbes, Windows Central, Memeburn, Music Ally, Engadget, Digital Trends, Android Authority, Ghacks, Neowin, 9to5Google, The Verge, The Messenger, The Independent, PhoneArena, The Hollywood Reporter, Wired, Fast Company, iPhone in Canada Blog, Adweek, iDownloadBlog.com, AndroidGuys, Android Headlines, Fortune, MSPoweruser, Lifewire, BGR, Pocket-lint, WRIC-TV, Android Police, PCMag, USA Today, Spotify, MobileSyrup, CNET, USA Today, Daily Mail, TechCrunch, Forbes, TechRadar, and iMore
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X: @spotify, @abbyemonteil, @mkbhd, @zunguzungu, @jollz, @normalmadeline, @mags_mclaugh, and @sidewalkssss. LinkedIn: Stephen Antonini
| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
More: Spotify, The Guardian, Axios, WSAV-TV, BBC, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, Android Headlines, The Hollywood Reporter, and UPROXX
X: @taylorswift13, @spotifynews, @spotifynews, @popcrave, @spotifynews, @popbase, @eldsjal, and @spotifynews
Forums: r/entertainment and r/TaylorSwift
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group, and the US, the Netherlands, and Poland seize the service — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group.
More: U.S. Department …, TechCrunch, The Record, CoinDesk, The Verge, Hackread, Unchained Crypto, Elliptic, Fortune, Cointelegraph, InfoRiskToday.com, Reuters, The Daily Hodl, Cryptonews, Protos, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, Crowdfund Insider, and Blockworks. Forums: r/InfoSecNews
| Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: |
Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times — Large language models, like ChatGPT, are trained on vast amounts of text data from books, websites, and other sources.
More: 404 Media, not-just-memorization …, arXiv.org, Engadget, VICE, and Cryptopolitan
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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.
More: Google Chrome Releases, Club386, The Hacker News, PCMag, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Stack Diary, SecurityWeek, Forbes, and MSPoweruser
| 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 …
More: Reuters, Engadget, Windows Central, GameSpot, IGN, GameFromScratch.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Neowin, The Messenger, Polygon, PC Gamer, TechRadar, Game World Observer, and GamesIndustry.biz
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place, @whorfin@mastodon.social, and @yiningkarlli@mastodon …
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LinkedIn: Jason Gottlieb, Simon Sturzenegger, Larry James, Benjamin Yde, Dora Morolli, Martin Monov, Jim Geduldick, Marc Petit, and Nikola Garabandic
Forums: Hacker News, r/vfx, r/technology, and Beehaw
| 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/criterion
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix plans to add Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy to its mobile app, the App Store, and Google Play on December 14, available to its users at no extra charge — The three classic titles in “Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition" will be available Dec. 14 for Netflix customers …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple licenses Arm's IP at less than 30 cents per device, the lowest rate among Arm's smartphone chip clients; Apple makes up under 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 …
More: MacRumors, Tom's Hardware, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, and AppleInsider
Mastodon: @ernie@writing.exchange. X: @waynema, @sundeep, and @theinformation. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind uses GNoME to find 2.2M crystal structures, over 45x more than all such substances ever found, and plans to make 381K available to scientists — Work shows power of AI to improve real-world technology in fields from renewable energy to advanced computation| CBC News: |
Google and Canada reach an agreement in their dispute over the country's Online News Act; Google plans to pay news companies around CA$100M per year, or ~$74M — Agreement comes 3 weeks before Online News Act rules come into force — Google and the federal government have reached …
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Forums: r/onguardforthee, r/canada, r/CanadaPolitics, and Ars OpenForum
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Wormhole, a Jump Crypto messaging protocol that lets developers communicate across blockchains, 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 … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Mozilla says Firefox extensions compatible with Android will be “openly available” to users on December 14, with over 400 coming at launch — Mozilla is opening the floodgates on extensions for Firefox on Android, with hundreds of new add-ons arriving in December.| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, r/hacking, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts Titan Image Generator, an AI model that creates images from text and adds an invisible watermark by default, in preview for AWS clients on Bedrock — Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so.| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Plex users express alarm after getting a “Week in Review” email that showed what they and their friends watched, part of Plex's opt-out Discover Together tool — “I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff,” a user said of Plex's Week … | Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Elliptic and Corvus Insurance: the “Black Basta” ransomware group, suspected of being a Conti offshoot, has extorted at least $107M in bitcoin since early 2022 — A cyber extortion gang suspected of being an offshoot of the notorious Russian Conti group of hackers has raked … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: London-based AI startup Stability AI held early-stage talks with several 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
More: Ars Technica, Decrypt, Telegraph, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
X: @kylebrussell, @lynnmdoan, @lynnmdoan, @mhbergen, @greglinden, @mhbergen, and @katie_roof. Forums: r/StableDiffusion
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011 — Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters.| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Together AI, which helps pre-train and fine-tune open-source foundation models more efficiently, raised a $102.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins — I spoke with Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash — Together AI, a startup that's helping companies pre-train and fine-tune open source foundation models …
More: Together.ai, TechCrunch, Kleiner Perkins, and TechStartups
Mastodon: @timbray@cosocial.ca. X: @dinvesting, @buckymoore, @togethercompute, and @ericnewcomer. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
Bluesky: @leahnylen.bsky.social. X: @ajmartinny, @zekefaux, @dannygroner, @livcarville, @ttp_updates, @livcarville, @sankalp_sp, @bradstone, @livcarville, and @livcarville
| Wall Street Journal: |
After the mass layoffs in late 2022 and early 2023, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta continue to make small employee cuts to keep tight control on costs — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are making strategic trims even as they rebound from the tech downturn
Forums: Slashdot
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at Ayaneo's $199+ Retro Mini PC AM01, designed to look like a 1980s-era Macintosh, with Ryzen chip options, 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.
More: HotHardware, VideoCardz.com, TweakTown, XDA Developers, and PC Gamer
X: @kotecinho, @kotecinho, @cromwelp, @danielolimac, and @ayaneo__
| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Perplexity debuts two online LLMs that can access the internet to provide up-to-date responses, publicly accessible via Perplexity's API and Labs web interface — Perplexity's new PPLX models leverage the internet for real-time data. Find out how these new online LLMs compare to GPT-3.5 and Llama 2.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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