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November 23, 2024, 5:50 PM

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New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment …
New York Times:
Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies  —  Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security …
Christine Lemmer-Webber / Dustycloud Brainstorms:
ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a “credible exit”  —  Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular …
Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5  —  Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges  —  Meta's Threads is losing ground …
Financial Times:
A look at challenges facing Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, including the company falling behind in the AI chip race and discontent from employees  —  Chip woes and labour unrest test the mettle of third-generation leader of South Korea's most valuable company
Reuters:
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