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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users say Google's Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks — This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
More: Bloomberg, iThinkDifferent, Financial Times, HotHardware, Engadget, KnowTechie, Wired, Bloomberg, Trak.in, EnterpriseAI, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, MediaNama, Business Today, and The Verge
Threads: @reckless1280 and @lucaspuskaric
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK accuses a unit of Russia's FSB of using cyberattacks in a “sustained but unsuccessful” campaign to undermine British democratic institutions since 2015 — The British government accused a unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday of using cyberattacks in a …
More: GOV.UK, Microsoft Security Blog, US Department of Justice, U.S. Department …, The Record, TechCrunch, The Guardian, BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, United States Department …, National Cyber Security Centre, CyberScoop, WHDH 7News, NBC News, Cybersecurity Insiders, Telecoms Tech News, SiliconANGLE, Baseline, Financial Times, Daily Mail, The i Paper, Bloomberg, Politico, DeviceSecurity.io, The Messenger, New York Times, ComputerWeekly.com, Forbes, and Infosecurity
X: @msftsecintel, @gordoncorera, @imincorrigible, @danwblack, @dmitryopines, @jimmysecuk, @sixdub, @eliothiggins, @mike_eckel, and @gordoncorera. LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft announces a major security leadership reshuffle as part of its Secure Future Initiative, replacing Bret Arsenault with Igor Tsyganskiy as Global CISO — Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant shakeup of its security team, with its long-time leader being put into a new role …
More: DataBreachToday.com, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, and TechCircle
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Montenegro Justice Minister Andrej Milovic 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 … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default for one-on-one chats and calls, fulfilling a yearslong 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: Hacker News, r/privacy, and r/technology
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Gene Levoff, the ex-Apple lawyer who pled guilty to insider trading from 2011 to 2016, to four years of probation; Apple fired him in 2018 — - Gene Levoff was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday — Judge said the Stanford Law graduate already lost his career| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony removing Discovery content due to licensing “arrangements” and unexpectedly banning PSN accounts are timely reminders that users don't 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
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla's Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla in November; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo — Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … | 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: Microsoft On the Issues, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, The Record, CyberScoop, NBC News, IndieWire, Wired, Business Insider, and New York Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the “goal in firing Sam [Altman] was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to say why she and others voted to fire him — In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI's power struggle
More: Fortune, Los Angeles Times, The Decoder, The Verge, and TIME
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| 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
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X: @johannkerbrat, @robinhoodcrypto, @robinhoodcrypto, and @emilyjnicolle. LinkedIn: Dougal Weir. Forums: Hacker News
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out tags on Threads, offering support for multiple words and spaces, and no # symbol; posts can only have one tag and the tag view is the search view — Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday.
More: 9to5Google, Engadget, TechRadar, Neowin, BGR, and Social Media Today
Threads: @mosseri, @titanjibk, @erika_lucas07, @mosseri, @datadrivenmd, @emmyloop, and @hawaii. Bluesky: @adnan.social
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook estimates that at least ~3,200 private venture-backed US startups, 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. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Block opens preorders for its self-custodial Bitcoin hardware wallet Bitkey in 95+ countries, coming to the US in early 2024 for $150, after a beta in June 2023 — Block, the payments company led by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Thursday that Bitkey, a physical device …
More: Business Wire, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, CryptoPotato, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, Blockworks, crypto.news, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Cointelegraph
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Apple's guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain a push notification token's associated Apple ID “with 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: Android Authority, Wired, MacRumors, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, 404 Media, GovTech, Mashable, Malwarebytes, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, WRAL TechWire, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Schneier on Security, Bloomberg, Daring Fireball, CNBC, iMore, and Reuters
| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
X rolls out xAI's snarky, anti-woke chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users; X CEO Linda Yaccarino describes Grok as “the ultimate ride or die” — Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday. — Elon Musk's snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok …
Bluesky: @alexandraerin.com and @andimann.bsky.social
X: @zeffmax, @scobleizer, @greg16676935420, @elonmusk, @lindayax, and @elonmusk
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers detail AutoSpill, a flaw in Android that can expose users' saved credentials from 1Password, LastPass, Keeper, 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.
More: MobileSyrup, Tech.co, TechRadar, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Dark Reading
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tests a $9.99/month grocery subscription service for Prime members, offering unlimited Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh grocery delivery on orders over $35 — - Amazon is betting members of its Prime program will want to pay a separate monthly fee for unlimited grocery delivery on some orders.
More: The Information, PYMNTS.com, and TechCrunch
| 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.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based ContactMonkey, which offers an internal communications tool that integrates with Outlook, Gmail, and more, raised a $55M Series A led by Updata — Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is. — Today, ContactMonkey …
More: FinSMEs, BetaKit, and ContactMonkey
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development by offering tools and evaluations for safely building 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.
More: Meta, Meta, PYMNTS.com, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, Axios, and insideBIGDATA
Threads: @chriscox. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @cotdp, @sourab_m, @tangrikunal, @stevejarrett, @sam_witteveen, @soumithchintala, @_philschmid, @simonw, @moyix, @scale_ai, @aiatmeta, @nickclegg, and @metanewsroom
LinkedIn: Steve Jarrett, Sayeed Choudhury, and Kunal Tangri
| 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| 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, Video Games Chronicle, IGN, Game Developer, Game Rant, Gizmodo, Polygon, Dot Esports, Kotaku, Gameranx, and GamesIndustry.biz
X: @genki_jpn and @joemerrick
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells customers that the company plans to stop accepting Venmo as a payment method on January 10, 2024, after rolling out Venmo support in October 2022 — - Amazon will no longer allow users to pay with Venmo beginning Jan. 10, according to a notice sent to users.
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Verge, Finextra, Engadget, Payments Dive, The Information, and PYMNTS.com
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Rhythms, which plans to use AI to analyze companies' patterns, such as monthly reviews and weekly meetings, comes out of stealth with a $26M seed — Seattle tech veteran Vetri Vellore is launching a new startup with a big vision to help companies improve their productivity …
More: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, TechCrunch, TechStartups, and Rhythms
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify says CFO Paul Vogel plans to leave on March 31, 2024, and launches a search for a successor; Daniel Ek wants a CFO “with a different mix of experiences” — Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will leave the company next year and that it has launched a search to find a replacement.Sponsor Posts
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