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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default for one-on-one chats and calls, fulfilling a long-term promise; E2EE for group chats remains opt-in — Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally fulfilling …
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Forums: r/privacy and r/technology
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Apple guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain the Apple ID associated with a push notification token via a subpoena; Google requires a court order — Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday
More: Ars Technica, Wired, TechCrunch, 404 Media, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, iTnews, Android Authority, The Register, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, Bloomberg, WRAL TechWire, Schneier on Security, Axios, Business Insider, Macworld, Daring Fireball, Pixel Envy, BleepingComputer, MacDailyNews, OSnews, iThinkDifferent, and iMore
X: @eshumarneeedi and @matthew_d_green
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood launches a commission-free crypto trading app, supporting 25+ cryptocurrencies, in the EU, a week after the company launched stock trading in the UK — - More than 25 tokens available to trade for free at launch — Launch comes as Bitcoin's price recovers to 19-month high| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony's Discovery content removals due to licensing “arrangements” and unexpected account bans are timely reminders of why users don't really own digital content — In less than a week, Sony has given us two timely reminders of the tenuousness of digital “ownership” — and both reminders involve things on PlayStation.
More: Kotaku, PlayStation, Business Insider, and New York Times
Mastodon: @mookie@troublemaker.social. X: @datnofact, @jezcorden, @tomwarren, @jaay_rock_, @hazzadorgamin, @jezcorden, and @ethangach
Forums: Hacker News and r/dvdcollection
| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Sources: Bungie's recent layoffs came alongside a scramble to avoid a total Sony takeover, which could happen if Bungie doesn't meet certain financial goals — The Destiny 2 and Marathon developer may not be able to cling to the last of its independence forever.
More: Game World Observer, Forbes, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamingBolt, GameRevolution, Gamereactor UK, Pure Xbox, Destructoid, and PC Gamer
X: @jpdeathblade, @daveoshry, @kyleblessing, @ggpedroperes, @tomwarren, @mynameisbyf, @demonjoetv, @ethangach, @duckvalentine, @jasonschreier, and @destinlegarie
Forums: Hacker News, r/Marathon, r/XboxSeriesX, r/gamernews, r/pcgaming, r/destiny2, r/Asmongold, r/gaming, r/PS4, r/technology, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD launches Instinct MI300X and MI300A AI accelerators and claims the MI300X delivers up to 1.6x more performance than Nvidia's H100 HGX in inference workloads — AMD's chiplet strategy comes to fore. — AMD launched its Instinct MI300X AI accelerator and the Instinct MI300A …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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X: @amd, @joshuaogundu, @futurebec, and @patrickmoorhead
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bitzlato co-founder Anatoly Legkodymov pleads guilty in the US to running a money transmitting business for illicit funds and plans to close the crypto exchange — Anatoly Legkodymov says he'll dissolve the sanctioned exchange as part of his plea. — Register Now
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Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @brett@infosec.exchange. X: @silvermanjacob, @baddcompani, and @ednynews
| Reuters: |
Reuters temporarily removes its article titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision — Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued …
More: 404 Media. Mastodon: @adamhotep@infosec.exchange. X: @tomhegel, @oneunderscore__, @kimzetter, @byrontau, @ajvicens, @malwarejake, and @shanehuntley
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook: approximately 3,200 private venture-backed US companies, which had raised a combined $27.2B in VC funding, have gone out of business in 2023 — After staving off collapse by cutting costs, many young tech companies are out of options, fueling a cash bonfire.
More: PYMNTS.com. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @bedwardstiek, @workmj, and @bernardleong
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft announces a major security leadership reshuffle as part of its Secure Future Initiative, appoints Igor Tsyganskiy as CISO, replacing Bret Arsenault — Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant shakeup of its security team, with its long-time leader being put into a new role …
More: Windows Central, Benzinga, TechCircle, SecurityWeek, Cyber Daily, and Dark Reading. LinkedIn: Charlie Bell
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development through the release of tools and evaluations to build open generative AI models — Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to promote the responsible development of artificial intelligence systems with a new initiative called Purple Llama.| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft says Russia-aligned propagandists duped at least seven Western celebrities via Cameo into recording videos used to attack Ukraine's President Zelensky — Microsoft found that celebrities were tricked into making videos used to attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
More: New York Times
| Mat Honan / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on Gemini, the leading AI benchmarks, hallucinations, making AI helpful for all, the legal AI landscape, the future of search, and more — In an in-depth interview, Pichai predicts: “This will be one of the biggest things we all grapple with for the next decade.”| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
TrendForce: the top 10 chip foundries' Q3 revenue rose 7.9% YoY to ~$28.29B; TSMC was first at ~$17B; Intel made the list for the first time in several quarters — The global foundry industry witnessed a substantial rise in demand in the third quarter of 2023, according to TrendForce.| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers detail AutoSpill, a flaw on Android that can expose users' saved credentials from 1Password, LastPass, and other popular password managers — A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Steve Hotelling, the Apple VP overseeing technologies like touchscreen, health sensors, and Face ID, and one of the inventors of Touch ID, is retiring — - Steve Hotelling oversaw many key technologies at Apple — Executive was a top deputy under hardware boss Johny Srouji
More: MacRumors, MacDailyNews, iMore, PhoneArena, Reuters, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Jim Norman / Nintendo Life: |
Nintendo cancels Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo and delays Splatoon and Mario Kart esports events after “persistently receiving threats” against staff and spectators — Splatoon and Mario Kart events postponed too — Nintendo has today announced that the first Nintendo Live event of 2024 …
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, GamesIndustry.biz, Video Games Chronicle, Kotaku, Gameranx, IGN, Dot Esports, and Nintendo World Report Updates
X: @genki_jpn and @joemerrick
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK accuses a unit of Russia's FSB of using cyberattacks in a “sustained but unsuccessful” campaign to undermine democratic institutions since 2015 — The British government accused a unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday of using cyberattacks in a … | Reuters: |
Earnest: Chinese e-commerce platform Temu had nearly 17% of US discount store market share in November, compared to Dollar General's 43% and Dollar Tree's 28% — Temu, the fast-growing Chinese e-commerce platform selling $4 home decor and $10 shirts, is successfully taking … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft plans the next major Windows version for 2024, with an AI-powered Windows Shell, an “advanced Copilot”, natural language search, and more — What's next for Windows? Microsoft plans next-gen Windows AI release in 2024, plus details on recent changes to the Windows roadmap
More: Club386, Windows Report, TechSpot, Ghacks, Notebookcheck, PCWorld, Thurrott, Neowin, and XDA Developers
X: @_h0x0d_, @aneternalenigma, @zacbowden, @xenopanther, @cullend, @compusemble, and @zacbowden
Forums: r/windows and r/Windows11
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google posts instructions for restoring files in Google Drive for desktop, after users reported last week that some of their files disappeared from the service — Google has a solution for the sync issue that caused files to disappear for some users on Drive for desktop.| Financial Times: |
A profile of Chinese whistleblower Tang Mingfang, who is still paying the price for calling out injustices at a Foxconn factory making Amazon devices in 2019 — Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed — except for him| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Review of Amazon's $315 Echo Frames Carrera Cruiser: more stylish with better battery but pricey, bass and audio are still not great, and Alexa isn't optimal — I felt like a Kardashian reject roaming the streets of New York City, but hey, Alexa could tell me the weather.
More: TechHive and Digital Trends
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Montenegro's Justice Minister has privately said he plans to extradite Do Kwon to the US rather than South Korea to face criminal charges — Alexander Osipovich and Marko Vešović — Montenegro's top justice official has privately said he plans to send disgraced crypto tycoon …
More: Cryptopolitan and Inside Bitcoins
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts Imagine with Meta, a standalone text-to-image generator on the web powered by its Emu model that generates four images per prompt, free for US users — Not to be outdone by Google's Gemini launch, Meta's rolling out a new, standalone generative AI experience on the web …
More: Imagine with Meta AI, Ars Technica, Meta, MSPoweruser, Metaverse Post, Engadget, WinBuzzer, Tom's Guide, SamMobile, BetaNews, Analytics India Magazine, TweakTown, Cointelegraph, ZDNet, Decrypt, The Verge, XDA Developers, Neowin, PetaPixel, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
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X: @joshuaogundu, @rcweston, @scobleizer, @g_ack, @rcweston, @joshuaogundu, and @metanewsroom
Forums: r/technews and r/singularity
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