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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta launches Threads in the European Union, following the US, the UK, and 100+ other countries, and adds a way for EU users to browse Threads without a profile — Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is now available in the European Union, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
More: The Guardian, TechCrunch, SamMobile, Observer, Android Central, Windows Central, Bloomberg, PetaPixel, Android Headlines, Fortune, NewsBytes, Thurrott, RTTNews, Pocket-lint, Tech Xplore, Silicon Republic, MarketWatch, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, kuwaittimes, Wall Street Journal, MSPoweruser, Benzinga, Variety, WinBuzzer, Independent.ie, Engadget, TechCrunch, BBC, RTÉ, Verdict, The Irish Times, and TechCrunch
Threads: @zuck, @mosseri, @doniecnn, @jank0, @chancehmiller, @carnage4life, @mosseri, @tomwarrenuk, @mosseri, @gergelyorosz_, @poorlydrawnarsenal, @tb_99999, @crumbler, @mattnavarra, @reckless1280, @carnage4life, @freezydorito, @threads, @carnage4life, @mkbhd, and @gergelyorosz_. Mastodon: @MostFollowed@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Email: Cruise lays off 900 staff, or ~24% of its workforce, targeting non-engineering jobs, as part of a plan to slash costs and attempt to revamp the company — Cruise, the embattled GM self-driving car subsidiary, is laying off 900 employees, or about 24% of its workforce … | Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Google DeepMind's FunSearch model cracks the unsolved cap set problem in pure mathematics, the first time an LLM has solved a long-standing scientific puzzle — They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage. — Google DeepMind has used a large language model …
More: Google DeepMind, Nature, Nature, The Guardian, New Scientist, and Stack Diary
Bluesky: @epro.social and @lakewitchhouse.bsky.social
X: @johnjnay, @barekatainamin, @googledeepmind, @mfigurnov, @sashavnovikov, @pengmingwang, @alhusseinfawzi, @pushmeet, @wtgowers, @matejbalog, @ber24, @gfodor, and @emollick. Forums: Hacker News
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
After an on-by-default AI toggle caused confusion, Dropbox says the company only shares user data with OpenAI when the AI search feature is actively being used — AI feature turned on by default worries users; Dropbox responds to concerns. — On Wednesday, news quickly spread on social media …
More: Dropbox Help Center, CNBC, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, Tech.co, Ghacks, Android Headlines, KnowTechie, WinBuzzer, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Threads: @jina. Mastodon: @baldur@toot.cafe. Bluesky: @authorwinifred.bsky.social. X: @werner, @drewhouston, @kortizart, @simonw, @simonw, @kortizart, @dropboxsupport, @drewhouston, @rahll, @billheyman, @kortizart, @kortizart, @kortizart, @dropboxsupport, @dropboxsupport, @quinnypig, @simonw, @isirspectre, @kortizart, @drewhouston, @kortizart, and @drewhouston. LinkedIn: Hayden Field
Forums: Hacker News, Beehaw, and Ars OpenForum
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Threads: @jina. Mastodon: @zarfeblong@mastodon …. X: @simonw, @rstankov, @bengoldhaber, and @iethics. Forums: Hacker News
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The US DOJ announces an indictment for four people, two of whom have been arrested, in an alleged international pig butchering crypto scam costing victims $80M+ — - Los Angeles federal prosecutors said four indictments and two arrests had been made in an international “pig butchering” scheme.
More: US Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, Cryptonews, NBC News, Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk. Mastodon: @brianstorms@mastodon.social
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google plans to test Tracking Protection and blocking third-party cookies on January 4 for ~1% of Chrome users globally, ahead of a phased rollout in H2 2024 — Google is about to launch its grand plan to block third-party cookies in Chrome that many websites use to track your activity across the web for profit.
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LinkedIn: Dan Taylor and Joey Trotz
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
Intel launches the Core Ultra H and the Core Ultra U series, its first mobile processors based on the Meteor Lake platform for power-efficient mobile AI chips — Intel has released their first mobile processors based on their highly anticipated Meteor Lake platform, the Core Ultra H and the Core Ultra U series.
More: Intel, VentureBeat, Tom's Hardware, 9to5Google, Hardware Canucks on YouTube, Neowin, PC Gamer, Just Josh on YouTube, Notebookcheck, PCWorld, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Phoronix, TechSpot, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, HotHardware, CRN, Club386, Android Headlines, How-To Geek, guru3d.com, Windows Central, KitGuru, and Tom's Guide
X: @benbajarin, @intel, @maxwinebach, and @mjholthaus
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
More: TechRadar, CNET, Intel, PCMag, ExtremeTech, MobileSyrup, Reuters, Bloomberg, Engadget, Digital Trends, Constellation Research, and Notebookcheck
X: @patrickmoorhead and @mikefeibus
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Sources: Google plans to use Gemini across nearly its entire line of products and in Pixie, an upcoming AI assistant that will be exclusive to its Pixel devices — For Google, it was a moment to savor its apparent triumph over the doomsayers. — Last week, the company released the first version …
More: 9to5Google, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, SamMobile, Droid Life, and The Verge
Threads: @goldman. Bluesky: @caseynewton.bsky.social, @dead.place, and @epro.social. Forums: Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches a Pixel Diagnostic App and repair manuals in English in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixel devices are sold — Besides the new Repair Mode introduced with Android 14 QPR1 and the December Feature Drop, Google is widely launching … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a generative AI background editing tool in the US, letting users change the background for their Stories using text prompts — Instagram introduced its generative AI-powered background editing tool to U.S.-based users Wednesday. — Meta's lead for generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle posted …
More: Decrypt, MobileSyrup, Engadget, Valahia.News, Android Headlines, Metaverse Post, PetaPixel, MSPoweruser, Neowin, and The Verge. Threads: @aaldahle
| Malak Saleh / Engadget: |
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Three Polish hackers say they fixed trains allegedly bricked by manufacturer Newag because an independent repair shop worked on them; Newag denies bricking them — Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. — Success — Great! Check your inbox and click the link. — Error
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, we are Rogue, Hackaday, The Drive, and The Register
Mastodon: @HackyScientress@chaos.social, @swearyanthony@mastodon.social, @libreleah@mas.to, @limneticvillains …, and @adrienne@social …
X: @utopiah, @tonamiplayman, @josephfcox, @kwiens, and @jason_koebler
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired: |
A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg's 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker.
Threads: @mattnavarra. X: @jackmjenkins, @katiedrumm, @kylebrussell, and @jtemperton. Forums: Hacker News
| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Amazon validates Project Kuiper's optical inter-satellite links, which use infrared lasers to move data around 30% faster than terrestrial fiber optical cables — Amazon's Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using …
More: About Amazon, Bloomberg, The Messenger, The Verge, PCMag, and GeekWire
X: @richontech and @ajassy
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: LinkedIn shelves its effort, announced in 2019, to relocate its data centers out of its physical facilities and into Azure, a setback for Microsoft — - LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services.
More: The Register, Tech Monitor, Neowin, and DatacenterDynamics
| Reuters: |
A judge tentatively rules that Elon Musk must testify again for the US SEC's investigation of his $44B Twitter takeover, after the SEC sued Musk in October 2023 — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday tentatively ruled that billionaire Elon Musk must testify again for the U.S. Securities …
More: The Messenger, Bloomberg, and Wall Street Journal
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
At Intel's NYC event, Pat Gelsinger claimed that for AI, inference will become more important than training, and the industry wants to “eliminate” Nvidia's CUDA — Reframing the AI framework, away from CUDA and toward more open standards. — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger came … | Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI details how its Superalignment research team is exploring ways to control stronger AI models like GPT-4 using weaker supervisor models like GPT-2 — The “superalignment” team led by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has devised a way to guide the behavior of AI models as they get ever smarter.
More: MIT Technology Review, OpenAI, TechCrunch, IEEE Spectrum, and Baseline
X: @miramurati, @sama, @swarnanlp, @alextmallen, @leopoldasch, @nabla_theta, @collinburns4, @_akhaliq, @stephenlcasper, @adrienle, @binarybits, @gdb, and @openai. Forums: Hacker News
| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
Microsoft seizes US-based infrastructure and websites used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 that created ~750M fraudulent Microsoft accounts, after a court order — Relying on a court order, the tech giant seized websites belonging to a top purveyor of fraudulent Microsoft accounts.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, TechCrunch, PCMag, The Register, SC Media, Wired, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, Windows Central, GeekWire, Help Net Security, CSO, Forbes, Security Boulevard, Neowin, WinBuzzer, ITPro, Hackread, TechRadar, Beyond Search, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, Metaverse Post, Cybernews.com, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg Law, and BleepingComputer
X: @sixdub, @itsreallynick, and @msftsecintel
LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman and Sean Farrell
| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
Apple's stock rose 1.7% to close at $197.96 on December 13, surpassing its previous record close in July 2023, for a ~$3.08T market cap; AAPL is up 57% in 2023 — - Shares surpass July high, putting market cap at $3.08 trillion — Revenue seen growing again in 2024 after falling this year| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok quietly changed its TOS in July 2023, including removing requiring users to go through private arbitration, making it more difficult to sue the company — Some lawyers say the changes could make it more difficult to bring legal action against the company.
Bluesky: @annmlipton.bsky.social
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US FCC grants SpaceX temporary authorization to test its cellular Starlink system by beaming data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations — The experimental authorization lets SpaceX test the cellular Starlink system by using 840 satellites to beam the data to unmodified smartphones in over two dozen locations.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple begins selling a $99 USB-C charging case for its second-generation AirPods Pro as a standalone purchase; delivery estimates are for after Christmas — Apple has begun selling the USB-C charging case for its second-generation AirPods Pro as a standalone purchase. But it doesn't come cheap.
More: iThinkDifferent, Business Insider, MobileSyrup, Thurrott, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, The Indian Express, Android Headlines, Macworld, Benzinga, Engadget, Supercharged, and AppleInsider
X: @snazzylabs, @tailosivetech, @rsgnl, @chriswelch, @rsgnl, and @tailosivetech. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| David Averre / Daily Mail: |
A deepfake of President Vladimir Putin, built by a Saint Petersburg State University student, asked Putin about AI and doppelgangers during a public Q&A session — - The moment saw the Russian president caught uncharacteristically off guard — It came amid his end of year press conference that lasted some four hours
More: PCMag, Cryptopolitan, CNBC, and Telegraph
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