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Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software — Beijing's hacking effort has “dramatically stepped up from where it used to be,” says former top U.S cybersecurity official.
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LinkedIn: Alex Stamos and Brian Krebs
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, and r/technology
| New York Times: |
A profile of Pavel Durov, a devout techno-optimist who trolled authorities online, started social network VKontakte in 2006, and left Russia in 2014 for Dubai — Pavel Durov's anti-establishment streak helped him create one of the world's biggest online platforms, which emphasizes free speech.
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| Politico: |
Telegram is avidly used within political and media circles in France, including by President Emmanuel Macron, who has used the messaging app for nearly a decade — PARIS — Open the Telegram chat of anyone in the French political orbit and you'll notice lawmakers, cabinet members and presidential advisers online or recently connected.
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| Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico: |
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI demoed a breakthrough called Strawberry to US natsec officials; one of its top uses is to make training data for a flagship LLM codenamed Orion — In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries earlier this month, the answer almost certainly …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cerebras launches the “world's fastest” AI inference service with “GPU-impossible performance”, costing 10+ cents per million tokens, to rival Nvidia — Ambitious artificial intelligence computing startup Cerebras Systems Inc. is raising the stakes in its battle against Nvidia Corp. … | Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit — - Mark Zuckerberg runs Meta, one of the world's most valuable tech companies. — Why did he just send Congress a letter admitting that Meta has screwed up?
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| Bloomberg: |
Former staff of video games payments company Xsolla say in lawsuits that CEO Aleksandr Agapitov leans heavily on company revenue for his new, flashier lifestyle — Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure his company's name - Xsolla … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will shut down Meta Spark, its third-party AR tools and content platform that launched in 2017, effective January 14, 2025, angering some creators — Creators are unhappy with Meta's decision on Tuesday to shut down its Spark platform, which allowed third parties to build augmented reality (AR) effects.
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LinkedIn: Martin Pagh Ludvigsen, Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, and Will Gee
| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that automatically takes notes during meetings conducted in spoken English, available to select Workspace customers — Google Meet's newest AI-powered feature, “take notes for me,” has started rolling out today to Google Workspace customers …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Instagram now lets users add text to photos right from its post editor, rather than needing a separate app, and add more photos as stickers on top of a photo — Instagram will now let you add text to your photos right from the post editor, meaning you won't need to edit your photos in a separate app just to add some text.
More: Instagram for Creators, MacRumors, Phandroid, GSMArena.com, WinBuzzer, Android Headlines, and Engadget
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
MakerDAO rebrands as Sky and debuts a new USDS stablecoin, but the token draws backlash after users noticed it allows the issuer to remotely freeze the asset — MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen said the feature won't be live when the USDS token goes live and the old DAI token will remain in circulation unchanged.| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: ex-Intel board member Lip-Bu Tan, an industry veteran, left over what he considered a bloated workforce, risk-averse culture, and lagging AI strategy — The sudden resignation of a high-profile Intel (INTC.O) board member came after differences with CEO Pat Gelsinger and other directors … Sponsor Posts
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