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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Google's video demo of Gemini's multimodal AI capabilities wasn't carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts — The tech giant's latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that's been out for eight months.
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Threads: @carnage4life and @neilpatel
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple is working with China's BYD to move iPad product development to Vietnam, with test production set to begin around mid-February 2024 — China's BYD helps American giant with shift to alternative tech hubs — Vietnam is emerging as an increasingly important production hub …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple and its suppliers aim to make 50M+ iPhones annually in India in two to three years, which would account for a quarter of global iPhone production — Supplier Foxconn plans to build more factories and give India a production role once limited mostly to China
More: MacDailyNews, GSMArena.com, BGR, Times of India, Trak.in, The Economic Times, Engadget, TipRanks Financial, PhoneArena, Benzinga, and NewsBytes. X: @abhi_banarasi
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
| Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA is considering an antitrust investigation into Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership, and is taking comments until January 3 before making a decision — - CMA seeking views on whether the relationship should be probed — Move is less than two months since watchdog cleared Activision
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Source: the US FTC is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and potentially antitrust law violations but hasn't opened a formal investigation — - The agency hasn't opened a formal probe into Microsoft-OpenAI — Microsoft didn't report deal to FTC due to non-profit status
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
How Meta addressed the technical challenges of developing E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features — Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How author Steven Johnson, now a Google employee for over a year, helped create NotebookLM, which lets writers extract key themes from their research material — Author Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer's research material and help them extract and explore the key themes.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
A researcher says a years-old Bluetooth authentication flaw lets attackers inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands on Apple, Android, and some Linux devices — Issue has been around since at least 2012 — A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple … | Wall Street Journal: |
The US and the UK accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in UK elections and target US energy networks and spies — The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Mobile network companies have backed themselves into a corner by racing to roll out 5G, taking on piles of debt with few returns to show for their investments — Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found …
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| Jacob Knutson / Axios: |
23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days — Days after a data breach allowed hackers to steal 6.9 million 23andMe users' personal details, the genetic testing company changed …
More: Wired, Stack Diary, Engadget, PCMag, Gizmodo, Cybernews.com, and BleepingComputer
Bluesky: @microh.bsky.social. X: @tosdr, @onekade, @mattbc, @jeffseibert, and @agingsloth. Forums: Hacker News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: X has had preliminary talks with Amazon to make ads available via Amazon's ad-buying software, and PubMatic, as it seeks to attract smaller advertisers — Social-media platform has had preliminary talks with Amazon to sell ads through e-commerce giant's ad-buying software
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
An untitled countdown timer viewable only on the Threads.net homepage in EU countries suggests that the service will be expanded to EU users on December 14 — Following its rollout in countries like the US and UK this past July, Threads will finally be expanded to users in the European Union on December 14th.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon sues an “international fraud organization” for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from the company through a series of refund scams — - Shoppers took gaming consoles, smartphones, tires and gold — Scammers live in US, five other countries, according to suit
More: BleepingComputer
| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
Grok's example responses that Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor can feel forced and try-hard — Fine. Let's talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
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Bluesky: @alexandraerin.com and @andimann.bsky.social
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