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Adam Mosseri details Threads' fediverse plans, including following non-Threads accounts, showing replies from other platforms, and follower portability — The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’
More: Hindustan Times, Daring Fireball, Digiday, fedipact.veganism.social, and NewsBytes
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Docs: ByteDance used OpenAI's API to develop its own LLM, codenamed Project Seed; employees discussed “whitewashing” the evidence through “data desensitization” — TikTok's entrancing “For You” feed made its parent company, ByteDance, an AI leader on the world stage.
More: The Verge, NewsBytes, Yahoo News, Analytics India Magazine, and Benzinga
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| New York Times: |
A California state agency drops its 2021 sexual harassment case against Activision Blizzard, saying that no “investigation has substantiated any allegations” — The California Civil Rights Department said in a settlement agreement that no “investigation has substantiated any allegations” against the video game maker.
More: CRD, Engadget, Axios, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, The Information, IGN, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Verge, and Wall Street Journal
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging Apple misrepresented the way that third-party app subscriptions worked with Family Sharing — Apple has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over Family Sharing, and will pay out $25 million to put an end to the case.
More: KCC Class Action Services LLC, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, The Economic Times, Engadget, Business Times, The Verge, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, and Cord Cutters News. Forums: MacRumors
| Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk: |
Polygon Labs discontinues contributions to Edge, the OSS used for Dogechain, and shifts towards the Polygon CDK, which is powered by zero-knowledge cryptography — Polygon Labs, a developer of scaling networks for Ethereum, has shifted toward “Polygon CDK,” a blockchain-development kit powered by zero-knowledge cryptography.
More: Polygon Blog, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, and The Block
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DocuSign is working with advisers to explore a sale; DocuSign went public in 2018 and now has a $12B+ market cap; DOCU closes up 12.46% — Suitors for the $11 billion company could include private equity and technology firms — E-signature company DocuSign is working with advisers …
More: MarketWatch, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, The Information, CNBC, Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, and Reuters
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Memo: Weibo sent notices warning users to “avoid expressing pessimism about the economy” and “avoid crossing the red lines” around economic or financial topics — - The social media service sent warning notices to users — China has stepped up control on online discourse in past years| Bloomberg: |
Sources: more Chinese government agencies and state-backed firms have ordered staff to stop bringing iPhones, Samsung phones, and other foreign devices to work — - Agencies from Beijing to Tianjin instruct staff to go local — The formal directives follow a general mandate from months ago
More: NewsBytes, Huawei Central, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Stock Market News, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Sammy Fans, and Benzinga. X: @lord_fed
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
How Spamouflage Dragon, China's largest disinformation campaign per Google and Meta, infiltrates platforms to promote Chinese policies and criticize dissidents — ‘Mold of the internet’ has appeared on 50 platforms, researchers say — When a Twitter account for Utah business coach Spencer …
More: ISD. Threads: @jeffstoneyeacool. X: @drlimengyan1, @next_china, @byron_wan, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, @isdglobal, and @isdglobal
| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
iOS 17.2 closes off Flipper Zero devices' ability to carry out DoS attacks on iPhones within a 30-foot radius by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests — Apple has finally closed off the ability of the Flipper Zero pen-testing tool to flood iPhones with so many popups that the handset would lock up and require a reboot.
More: 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, The Verge, Supercharged, and Gizmodo. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Alex Williams / New York Times: |
Vera Molnar, considered the godmother of generative art for her computer-aided paintings and drawings that started in the 1960s, died on December 7 at age 99 — Experimenting with algorithms, she began to employ the principles of computation in her work even before she gained access to an actual computer.
More: ARTnews, Observer, Artnet News, Sotheby's, and EmageNewsDAO
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk verbally guaranteed some US banks that they would not lose money on the Twitter deal; banks face serious losses on the “uninvestable” debt — Banks are facing serious losses on the debt as social media platform's business deteriorates
More: Ars Technica, Business Insider, and The Messenger
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