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Nick Clegg says Mark Zuckerberg is keen to play “an active role” in Trump admin tech policy debates and Meta “overdid it a bit” when moderating pandemic content — Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect
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| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Sources: Intel starts shortlisting a handful of CEO candidates, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan, who left in August 2024 after clashing with Gelsinger — Intel (INTC.O) has started shortlisting a handful of candidates, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan … | Bloomberg: |
Pat Gelsinger's retirement opens the door for Intel to consider fresh deal options, including splitting factory and product-design divisions and selling Altera — - Former leader had spurned scenarios such as breakup of company — Qualcomm and Apollo have previously contemplated Intel deals| Financial Times: |
China bans shipments to the US of several “dual-use” minerals and metals used in chipmaking and military applications, in a retaliation to new US chips curbs — Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries — China has banned shipments to the US of several …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
An email and documents reveal Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't subject to Google's general ToS, but an “adjusted” ToS drafted by Google and Israel — When questioned about its controversial cloud computing contract with the Israeli government …
More: Abolitionist Law Center, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and WinBuzzer
X: @paulbiggar, @samfbiddle, @theintercept, @samfbiddle, and @samfbiddle
| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The CFPB proposes limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach discovered in April 2024 — In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
TikTok says it removed a network covertly campaigning for Calin Georgescu, whose shock victory in Romania's November 24 election threw the country into crisis — - The network campaigned for shock first-round winner Georgescu — Accounts failed to disclose data in violation of TikTok rules| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches by “After date,” “Before date,” and “From profile” — Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches …
More: TechCrunch, PCMag, Neowin, and MobileSyrup
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
ChatGPT refuses to state some names, possibly due to digital privacy requests or a post-prompt handling bug; OpenAI may have fixed the viral “David Mayer” issue — Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend …
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LinkedIn: Nat Choprasert, Victor Chirita, and Nicholas Thompson
Forums: Hacker News and r/technews
| Margaux MacColl / TechCrunch: |
Generative AI startup Yurts, which has contracts with the US Army, Air Force, and others, raised a $40M Series B led by XYZ, taking its total raised to $58.35M — Had Yurts founder Ben Van Roo's eyes been better, he might've followed in his family's footsteps and joined the Air Force.| Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times: |
German defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection — Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems
More: DroneXL.co, Helsing, UK Defence Journal, The Defense Post, SPACE.com, and Bloomberg
X: @front_ukrainian, @cedapprox, @khelioui, and @monsfrost
| John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times: |
The NCSC says the UK faces a “widening gap” in its ability to fight cyber threats, and “severe” incidents handled by the agency tripled to 12 in the past year — Number of incidents at top end of scale of severity tripled last year, including attack that took down London hospitals
More: National Cyber Security Centre, The Record, The Register, National Cyber Security Centre, The Mirror, TechRadar, ITPro, ComputerWeekly.com, The Guardian, Reuters, The Sun, and TechRadar. Forums: Slashdot
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Early tests show Perplexity's AI shopping agent, which lets users make purchases in its app, sometimes takes hours to process purchases or fails to buy items — Millions of Americans will pop open their laptops to buy gifts this holiday season, but tech companies are racing to turn the job of online shopping over to AI agents instead.Sponsor Posts
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