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Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive — There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple.
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| NBC News: |
Sources: US intelligence determined that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US in January and February 2023 used a US ISP to communicate with China — An American intelligence assessment found that the balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.
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| Benjamin Weiser / New York Times: |
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen says he mistakenly used bogus legal citations from Google Bard in a motion seeking an early end to court supervision — Donald Trump's former fixer had sought an early end to court supervision after his 2018 campaign finance conviction.
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| Usama Jawad / XDA Developers: |
Microsoft disables Windows App Installer's ms-appinstaller after the URI scheme was used to spread malware; Microsoft disabled and re-enabled the scheme in 2022 — Microsoft has disabled the ms-appinstaller URI scheme handler by default in the latest version of App Installer due to a rise in cyberattacks.| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Sources: for months, OpenAI has held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC about the price and terms of licensing their content — Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: hackers are abusing Google OAuth endpoint “MultiLogin” to restore expired authentication cookies and log into accounts even after a password reset — Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named “MultiLogin” …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches GPT-4-powered Copilot Chat in general availability for all users, in the sidebar of Microsoft's IDEs, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio — Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple was up ~50% in 2023 but underperformed its tech peers after Apple suffered four straight quarters of declining revenue, its longest such slide since 2001 — - In 2023, Apple suffered its longest revenue slide in 22 years, reporting four straight quarters of declining sales.
More: 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wccftech, and MacDailyNews
| Amrita Khalid / The Verge: |
LG debuts new LG Gram and Gram Pro laptops with NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSDs and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050; the Pro includes Intel's AI Boost NPU for on-device AI tasks — If you're in the market for OLED displays and better graphics, take a look at the 2024 LG Gram Pro lineup.
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Source: Shield AI, which makes autonomous drones and other military tech, raised $300M in equity and debt at a $2.8B valuation, bringing its Series F to $500M — Defense tech startup Shield AI has expanded its latest funding round with another $300 million in equity and debt … | Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Vitalik Buterin proposes requiring only 8,192 validator signatures per slot, down from 28K per slot, to make Ethereum's proof-of-stake “simpler and lighter” — The Ethereum co-founder suggested reducing validator signatures to lighten the load and make predicting future loads more accurate.
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| The Information: |
Sources: BuzzFeed is close to selling most of Complex Networks to livestream shopping startup Ntwrk for ~$100M, far below what Jonah Peretti originally sought — After months of discussions, BuzzFeed is close to an agreement to sell most of its Complex Networks business to Ntwrk … | Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Sources: India's decision to seek the blocking of the URLs of nine foreign crypto exchanges followed a request from the Indian crypto and Web3 advocacy body — Bharat Web3 Association's (BWA) Chairman wrote the letter to the Indian government on Dec. 16. — Unmute — Register Now
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