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December 3, 2024, 11:15 AM

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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) …
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
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
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
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 …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry on Tuesday …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
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 …
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
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 …
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
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.

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