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| Brady Dale / Axios: |
Caroline Ellison, a star witness in prosecuting FTX founder and ex-boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried, is sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the scandal — - “I've seen a lot of cooperators in 30 years. … - She talked to the government prior to Bankman-Fried's arrest …
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| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Google Cloud VP Gabe Monroy says he has seen 20%-30% productivity gains across the software development lifecycle at large companies using Gemini Code Assist — Google's Gabe Monroy claims to have seen productivity gains of 20-30 percent across the software development lifecycle …
More: Google Cloud Blog
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
More: Google Developers Blog, Reuters, VentureBeat, Rowan Cheung on YouTube, Neowin, Techstrong.ai, CRN, and Google DeepMind
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: Google Workspace Blog, 9to5Google, The Information, Android Police, Maginative, Financial Express, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, Cautious Optimism, The Keyword, The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, and 9to5Google
| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers — House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
More: The Committee on Homeland Security, New York Times, The Hill, Homeland Security Committee on YouTube, SecurityWeek, Benzinga, Cyber Daily, ABC, Quartz, PYMNTS.com, BBC, Cybernews.com, CRN, Nextgov/FCW, Channel Futures, The Register, Security Boulevard, GovInfoSecurity.com, The Guardian, Axios, Reuters, and Bloomberg
X: @cspan, @homelandgop, @zsk, @ryanaraine, @malwarejake, and @irnestkaplan
| New York Times: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg wants to get away from politics, pulling back from charitable causes that may seem partisan, tamping down employee activism, and more — It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics.
More: Mother Jones, HotAir, The Information, RedState, and Business Insider
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X: @modestproposal1, @argojournal, @nick_field90, @jordanzakarin, @fredbauerblog, @orientaljanedoe, and @teddyschleifer. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The US DOJ sues Visa, alleging it has an illegal monopoly over debit network markets and has tried to unlawfully crush competitors, including PayPal and Square — The financial service company reportedly tried to ‘smother’ competitors and feared Apple as an ‘existential threat.’
More: US Department of Justice, CNBC, Axios, Business Insider, Bloomberg, CNN, UPI, Crypto Briefing, The Straits Times, The Information, Payments Dive, Quartz, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, Yahoo Finance, Cryptopolitan, WGN-TV, Reuters, Washington Examiner, Engadget, Cointelegraph, The Daily Caller, Politico, The Hill, NPR, New York Times, KSTP-TV, CBS News, Finextra, Crowdfund Insider, Motley Fool, and Financial Times
| Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: |
SAG-AFTRA calls a strike against League of Legends, formerly strike exempt, filing an NLRB complaint and saying Formosa Interactive also refuses “fair AI terms” — The union charges one of the multiplayer game's producers, Formosa Interactive, with attempting to work around … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
MoneyGram, the world's second largest money transfer company, blames an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting its users — U.S.-based money transfer giant MoneyGram has blamed an unspecified “cybersecurity issue” for an ongoing days-long outage affecting the company and its users.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Wiz is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation between $15B and $20B, after abandoning Google's $23B acquisition offer in July 2024 — Cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc. is in discussions to sell existing shares at a valuation as high as $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
More: CTech and The Information
| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
US federal court records show the DOJ has been investigating SAP, IT vendor Carahsoft, and others for potentially conspiring to overcharge government agencies — - DOJ investigating billions in purchases from SAP over a decade — Other companies under scrutiny in civil False Claims Act probe| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google updates its Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, brings Street View to new locations, and sharpens satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps — Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more.
More: The Keyword, PhoneArena, Android Police, Ruetir, The Tech Basic, Android Authority, MakeUseOf, and 9to5Google
Forums: r/geoguessr and r/technology
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Marques Brownlee says “I hear you” after criticism of his new freemium wallpaper app Panels over privacy concerns, paying $50 per year for full access, and more — Marques Brownlee, the YouTuber known as MKBHD, has responded to backlash over the launch of his new wallpaper app, called Panels.
More: The Hindu, The Overspill, TechIssuesToday.com, COINOTAG NEWS, Decrypt, Android Police, POCIT, Wavelengths, Boing Boing, Benzinga, Dexerto, Digital Trends, and TechCrunch
Threads: @lukehurd, @crumbler, @mkbhd, @eshwarnag, @jonathangarelick, @bernardgatt, @ashjcoronado_, @tomgehrke, @letterboxd_steve, @devyn1989, and @ruidamosher
Mastodon: @julipuli@mastodon.social, @aulia@mementomori.social, @ljpuk@twit.social, @seb@androiddev.social, @engravecavedave …, @thomholwerda@exquisite.social, @harshil@mastodon.social, @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org, @harshil@mastodon.social, @harshil@mastodon.social, @TimDuran@twit.social, and @andyn@social.lol. Bluesky: @radiobeartime.com
X: @mkbhd, @mkbhd, @concept_central, @ianzelbo, @mkbhd, @flyosity, @0interestrates, @growing_daniel, @ludyfrfr, @0x, @ilyamiskov, @ashleevance, @snazzylabs, @parikpatelcfa, @mkbhd, @mkbhd, @bocabola_, @nikitabier, @imsh4yy, @dylanmcd8, @mkbhd, @jordanarnold, @hahaluastudios, @mkbhd, @hosecollector, @mkbhd, @gvnsmth, @leakerapple, @lauren_lawls, and @sank_alp
Forums: r/Android and r/technology
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Stability AI says filmmaker James Cameron has joined its board of directors; Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju was previously CEO of VFX company WETA Digital — The director says that “the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave” of film technology …
More: Stability AI, Ars Technica, Cryptopolitan, Reuters, The Wrap, Deadline, Variety, AV Club, Forbes, The Verge, Destructoid, VentureBeat, Rolling Stone, Telegraph, and SlashFilm
Threads: @chuck_wendig. X: @stabilityai, @rahll, @bilawalsidhu, @nljigakulive, @ehuanglu, @generalmcbride, and @rachelmetz. LinkedIn: Ryan Phillips
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Fauxmoi, r/4kbluray, and r/movies
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI adds five voices to Advanced Voice Mode, which is now rolling out to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users and, next week, to enterprise and education users — OpenAI announced it is rolling out Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) to an expanded set of ChatGPT's paying customers on Tuesday.
More: Digital Trends, Cryptopolitan, Gizmodo, CNBC, Neowin, Decrypt, BGR, TestingCatalog, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Guide, CoinGape, MIT Technology Review, ZDNET, Bloomberg, The Verge, Fast Company, and XDA Developers
X: @openai, @alexeheath, and @sama
| Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Filing: OpenAI agrees to give representatives for authors suing the company access to review its training data to see if OpenAI used authors' copyrighted works — At a secure room in its San Francisco office, representatives for authors suing OpenAI will examine materials that were used to train its AI system.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Salesforce agrees to buy Zoomin, an Israeli data management company that makes unstructured data accessible to AI agents — The deal comes less than three weeks after the software giant paid $1.9 billion for Own, another Israel-founded company. — Salesforce — Zoomin — Acquisition
More: Salesforce, Globes Online, SiliconANGLE, The Information, and TechCrunch
X: @salesforcenews, @ediggs, @newsynick, and @amitkarp
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
AI's first wave of successful implementation will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was led by enterprise installations that cut jobs — The popular history of technology usually starts with the personal computer, and for good reason: that was the first high tech device that most people ever used.
Mastodon: @chockenberry@mastodon.social and @baldur@toot.cafe
X: @deepvalue47, @petewilz, @jacobcolling, @serknight_, @stratechery, and @bwradford
LinkedIn: Guillermo Ayestaran, Shanan Delp, and Shyam Sankar
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a security researcher used a now-fixed flaw to store false memories in ChatGPT via indirect prompt injection with the goal of exfiltrating all user input — Emails, documents, and other untrusted content can plant malicious memories. — When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported …
More: Embrace The Red, Embrace The Red, Embrace The Red on YouTube, and Embrace The Red
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times: |
About 15,000 US doctors and assistants are using an AI feature in MyChart, a ubiquitous communications platform at US hospitals, to draft messages for patients — Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated.| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
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