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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid must stop using facial recognition for five years as part of a settlement with the US FTC, which says the tech falsely flagged customers — - FTC says chain's surveillance system falsely flagged customers — Bankrupt pharmacy chain will stop using system, delete images
More: Federal Trade Commission, Rite Aid, Forbes, Engadget, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Axios, The Record, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNBC, and The Hill
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LinkedIn: Samuel A.A. Levine and Timnit Gebru
| Nickolas Diaz / Android Central: |
Samsung adds the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Z Fold 5 to its Self-Repair program, the first foldable devices, and expands the program to 30 more countries in Europe — Its latest smartphone series and laptop join in, too. — What you need to know — Samsung has expanded coverage of its Self-Repair program …
More: Samsung Newsroom, Android Authority, Sam Lover, Sammy Fans, PhoneArena, Neowin, 9to5Google, nextpit, The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, and Droid Life
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Copilot can now compose songs, including lyrics, instruments, and voices, from a sentence, due to a new integration with generative AI music app Suno — Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft's AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with gen AI music app Suno.| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: AWS plans to overhaul its 60K-person sales team and aims to increase the share of Fortune 1,000 companies spending $10M+/year from less than 20% to 80% — Matt Garman, head of sales at Amazon Web Services, plans to reorganize his more than 60,000-person team to address problems …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a MITM attack on SSH that can break the integrity of the protocol, the first “practical attack of its kind”; fixes face compatibility issues — Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels.
More: Terrapin Attack, BleepingComputer, and SiliconANGLE
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Researchers say AI robot CyberRunner outmaneuvers humans in the maze game Labyrinth, in a breakthrough for AI beating humans at direct physical applications — - Robot learned in record time to guide a ball through a maze — The AI robot used two knobs to manipulate playing surface
More: CyberRunner, New Atlas, London Evening Standard, The Hindu, Thomas Bi on YouTube, Forbes, Thomas Bi on GitHub, arXiv.org, ReadWrite, TechEBlog, Telegraph, and Cryptopolitan
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol: a global law enforcement operation led by South Korea seized $300M and led to the arrest of 3,500 cybercrime suspects between July and December 2023 — An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation HAECHI IV’ has led to the arrest of 3,500 suspects …
More: INTERPOL, Gizmodo, The Record, The Register, SiliconANGLE, and Cybernews.com
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Comcast's Xfinity says hackers breached one of its Citrix servers in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people — Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Okta is acquiring Israeli cybersecurity company Spera, which raised a $10M seed in March 2023; source: the deal is worth ~$100M-$130M, contingent on milestones — The American identity and access management giant is making its first purchase in Israel. Spera, which raised $10 million …
More: Okta Inc., TechCrunch, PaymentSecurity.io, SiliconANGLE, The Information, and San Francisco Business Times
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Stability AI debuts Stability AI Membership, with free, $20/month, and custom pricing enterprise tiers, limiting commercial use of its models to the paid tiers — Stability AI, the maker of the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, is now offering a subscription service that standardizes … | Michael Kan / PCMag: |
HughesNet debuts a $110/month 100Mbps satellite internet plan, double its previous top speed; Starlink offers 220Mbps, but US Ookla data shows many get ~70Mbps — HughesNet's speed boost comes courtesy of the recently launched Jupiter 3 satellite, which is designed to serve customers in the Americas.
More: CNET, Cord Cutters News, ExtremeTech, and Fierce Wireless Industry News. Mastodon: @jay@cuthrell.com
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Matter broke its promise of an easier smart home experience, as the standard suffers from poor implementation, significant backpedaling, and glacial progress — The new smart home standard finally arrived this year. But poor implementation, significant backpedaling, and glacial progress have left it broken.| Isabel Gottlieb / Bloomberg Law: |
Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms using OpenAI's tech, raised an $80M Series B co-led by Elad Gil and Kleiner Perkins at a $715M valuation — Harvey.ai raised an additional $80 million, it announced Tuesday, valuing the generative AI legal technology platform at $715 million.
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Source: Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30K-person ad sales unit, as the company relies more on ML techniques to help customers buy even more ads — Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30,000-person ad sales unit, an executive told some staff last week, prompting anxiety that some departments will face job cuts.
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces a range of new features and updates for Google Maps in India, including Live View walking navigation, ML-powered Address Descriptors, and more — Google Tuesday introduced a range of new features and updates for its mapping service in India as it wraps up for the year and sets the base for the coming year.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
NIST seeks public input by February 2, 2024 for setting guidelines in order to evaluate the safety of generative AI systems as directed by President Biden's EO — The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was taking the first step toward writing key standards and guidance for the safe deployment … | Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
A profile of PDD, the parent of Pinduoduo and Temu, which has grown rapidly since its founding in 2015 despite allegations over malware and counterfeit goods — Efforts to surpass Alibaba at home and chase Amazon abroad come with human cost — HONG KONG — It was 2006 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Media monitoring and analytics firm Meltwater raises ~$65M from PE firm Verdane for an 11% stake at a $592M valuation, down from $1B+ valuation in December 2020 — Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI …
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| Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: |
Google agrees to pay $700M and make app store changes, like offering an alternative billing system, to settle a 2021 antitrust lawsuit by 36 US states and DC — Agreement with coalition of states resolves antitrust litigation related to app store — Google parent Alphabet agreed …
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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman about the moderator rebellion, limiting free access to the company's API, AI's role in Reddit's future, and more — Rebellious moderators. Large language models' peril and promise. Maybe a long-awaited IPO. Amid it all, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the web megacommunity is on a roll.
X: @dannygroner, @fastcompany, and @harrymccracken
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Analysis: Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000S, built on SMIC's 7nm process from 2023, is slower than the HiSilicon Kirin 9000, built on TSMC's 5nm process from 2020 — You cannot beat a 5nm processor with a 7nm chip. — The year was 2020, and Huawei released its HiSilicon Kirin 9000 …
More: NanoReview.net, Huawei Central, PhoneArena, and DigiTimes
| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu takes over for e-commerce business head Trudy Dai, one of Alibaba's earliest employees, who will now help oversee non-core assets globally — - Two-decade veteran Trudy Dai will help set up a holding firm — Alibaba's growth has fizzled out in recent years as PDD arose
More: The Information, Financial Times, Nikkei Asia, Reuters, CNBC, MarketWatch, and Alizila. X: @yicaichina
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