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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after new competitors, partner withdrawals, changing audience habits, and more; E3 began in 1995 — The collapse ends years of attempts to revive the event that once dominated the industry — The Electronic Entertainment Expo …
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LinkedIn: Bill Young, Fred White, Darren Gladstone, and Sebastian Park
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location” — Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
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| Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: |
A look at Twitter's culture prior to Elon Musk's acquisition, when it focused on improving the health of online conversations, rather than growth at all costs — the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
More: The Verge and The Verge
Threads: @mikecvet, @racsterls, @mikecvet, @reporterzoe, @shaneafsar, @j.b.robertson, @m0qazi, @andyyang, @cdylanparks, @luke.pfister, and @technicallymims. X: @drleostrauss
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses beating Google, but not Apple, thanks to a jury trial, Google erasing chats, and because “Apple didn't write anything down” — - The verdict is a significant win for Epic Games and its CEO Tim Sweeney, which have been fighting against mobile app stores …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023 — - X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say — Musk's personal tweets continue to scare off advertisers
More: The Information, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, 9to5Mac, and The Verge
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| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia's state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days — Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia's state tax service with malware … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division announces the end of perpetual licenses and a move to subscriptions, plus a simplification of its product portfolio — Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users — +COMMENT Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed — Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos — I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they're pretty wild. Here's how the experimental feature works. — “Hey, Meta.
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X: @haltor, @jetscott, @jetscott, and @heaney555
LinkedIn: Lee Callender, Ahmad Al-Dahle, and Neil Redding
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telco, is mitigating a cyberattack that led to a “large-scale technical failure”, leaving millions without internet and cell service — Kyivstar customers began complaining about network and internet outages in the early morning.| Tim McDonnell / Semafor: |
The US DOE opens The Office of Critical and Emerging Technology to coordinate the use of AI and other tech to fight climate change, prevent pandemics, and more — The U.S. Department of Energy today opened a new office tasked with coordinating the government's support for and use …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Messenger, and The Hill
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google plans to shorten Maps' default auto-delete history feature from 18 months to three months and let users store Maps Timeline data locally on their devices — Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it's offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data.
More: The Keyword, OSnews, Gizmodo, PCMag, PhoneArena, Neowin, TechCrunch, Android Central, Engadget, and 9to5Google
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone — The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn't slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
More: Microsoft Research, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, and The Information
Threads: @vitor_dlucca. LinkedIn: Eric Horvitz, Jia Li, Sohrab Rahimi, and Stephane Requena. Forums: Hacker News
| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
The UK Judicial Office issues guidance letting judges use AI tools like ChatGPT, while warning of their shortcomings, for tasks such as writing legal rulings — The UK now permits judges to use the “jolly useful” AI chatbot in court. — Robots may help determine your legal fate if you end up in a British court.
More: Financial Times, Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, Business Insider, and Cointelegraph. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple offers to let rivals access its tap-and-go payments systems for mobile wallets, hoping to settle EU antitrust charges and avoid a possible fine — Apple (AAPL.O) has offered to let rivals access its tap-and-go mobile payments systems used for mobile wallets …
More: 9to5Mac, iTnews, BGR, Macworld, SamMobile, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Fortune, NFCW, Patently Apple, Redmond Pie, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, The Messenger, MacRumors, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, and iMore
| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Stanford professor David Mills, who led SBF's defense as a favor to his parents, says the ex-FTX CEO is “the worst person I've ever seen do a cross examination” — Stanford Law Professor David Mills, who led defense for FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried as favor to his parents, now fears ‘unwinnable’ case has ended their friendship.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that threat actors are misusing OAuth apps to automate phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for crypto mining — Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for cryptomining.| Joseph Bernstein / New York Times: |
A look at Praxis, which raised $19.2M from Paradigm, Alameda Research, and others to build a city on the Mediterranean for tech bros and downtown NY tastemakers — Dryden Brown wants Praxis to be a crypto-city for tech bros and tastemakers. Just don't ask for details.
Mastodon: @Jonathanglick@mstdn.social. X: @bigmeaninternet, @bernstein, @hitsamty, @jeremypgordon, @bernstein, @zoesaintbernard, @tomgara, and @neilturkewitz
| Bloomberg: |
True Anomaly, a startup designing hardware and software for military and intelligence space reconnaissance systems, raised a $100M Series B led by Riot Ventures — - Contractor's spacecraft to track national threats in orbit — Threats can range from enemy satellites to space debris
More: PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
X: @the_trueanomaly and @lacostejonathan
LinkedIn: Jonathan Lacoste and Edward Ludlow
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Hackers breached Coin Cloud, which went bankrupt in February 2023, and stole the data of 300K users; source: the Bitcoin ATM company didn't have a security team — In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming … | CNN: |
A US GAO review of nearly 24 agencies' AI usage catalogs 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI and ML, despite the lack of government guidance — The US government plans to vastly expand its reliance on artificial intelligence, but it is years behind on policies …
More: U.S. Government …, The Hill, Nextgov/FCW, and FedScoop
| Nikkei Asia: |
Fujitsu plans to sell its chip packaging unit Shinko Electric for ~$4.8B to a group led by Japan Investment Corp., in an effort to offload non-core operations — Fujitsu is selling unit Shinko Electric Industries to a consortium led by state-owned Japan Investment Corp. © Reuters
More: Fujitsu Limited, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
On November 17, YouTube removed code that said if a channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, which gives a cut of ad revenue, leaving researchers in the dark — YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription payouts, obscuring which creators benefit most from the platform.Sponsor Posts
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