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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Amid the Salt Typhoon hacks, US officials recommend that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers — Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
More: Computerworld, Metacurity, Gizmodo, Forbes, AppleInsider, Cybernews.com, Associated Press, Politico, PhoneArena, The Cyber Express, TechCrunch, Nextgov/FCW, PCMag, and Reuters
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
X: @tarah, @benjamingoggin, and @joebeone
Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/crypto, and Slashdot
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The FBI and CISA give US telcos best practices to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain on their networks — - Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.
More: Cybersecurity …, Washington Post, The Record, Reuters, TechRadar, TechRepublic, CyberScoop, Cyber Daily, The Hacker News, CNN, ComputerWeekly.com, and Associated Press
Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca, @jkirk, @tarah.org, @iainthomson, @leak, @evangreer, and @samsabin
Mastodon: @aram@aoir.social, @thegibson@hackers.town, @da_667@infosec.exchange, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @JessTheUnstill@infosec …, and @mhoye@mastodon.social
X: @clary_co, @sbloomfield15, @arekfurt, @ericgeller, and @cisacyber
Forums: r/technology, r/signal, r/politics, r/conspiracy, and Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped created with Google's NotebookLM summarizer, and a Your Music Evolution data story — Spotify Wrapped, the streamer's highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized …
More: ZDNET, MacRumors, Thurrott, Forbes, CNET, The Independent, London Evening Standard, PCMag, Spotify, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Keyword, Neowin, MobileSyrup, Billboard, WXIA-TV, Tom's Guide, Beebom, TechRadar, MakeUseOf, Fast Company, iPhone in Canada Blog, MSPoweruser, Maginative, Music Ally, Business Insider, Wired, WinBuzzer, TestingCatalog, Mashable, UPROXX, PinkNews, Digital Trends, Spotify, Spotify, Spotify, NewsBytes, Columbia Journalism Review, and Metro.co.uk
X: @spotistats, @zacbowden, @spotifynews, @spotify, and @google
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify says The Joe Rogan Experience was its top US podcast for the fourth year running, followed by Call Her Daddy, and 33%+ of the top 50 podcasts had video — Streamer says more than one-third of top 50 podcasts in U.S. are now available as video episodes| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content was less than 1% of fact-checked election-related misinformation on its apps during major US, UK, Indian, Indonesian, and other elections — At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
More: The Verge, Meta, The Guardian, Engadget, PCMag, BizPac Review, The Indian Express, Cybernews.com, Silicon Republic, PetaPixel, The Hill, Al Jazeera, The National Pulse, The Hill, iTnews, GovTech, Tech.co, Washington Times, UPI, The Information, Agence France-Presse, Axios, and Financial Times
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Threads: @katienotopoulos, @andymstone, @katienotopoulos, and @kevinroose. X: @florian4gamers. Forums: r/technology
| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft says it will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, but keep its servers on until June 3, 2025, and plans to lay off ~277 production team staff — Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, Ubisoft announced Tuesday. Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025 …
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X: @playxdefiant, @pixelsofmark, @charlieintel, @prorebornyt, @counterscottgo, @varsitygamingtv, @gogoyubari__, @antoniojcintron, and @stallionstreams
Forums: r/gaming, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/XDefiant, r/PS5, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple delays the mass production of a smart home-focused, display-equipped HomePod until after WWDC 2025 or Q3 2025, mainly due to software development — - The mass production schedule for the display-equipped HomePod has been delayed multiple times.
More: CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, Ming-Chi Kuo, Android Authority, The Mac Observer, BGR, Mashable, MacDailyNews, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, Benzinga, NewsBytes, and GSMArena.com. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, “preserving the human touch” in game development, Astro Bot, and more — PlayStation's boss says artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to “revolutionise” gaming …
More: PC Gamer, PlayStation LifeStyle, Eurogamer.net, MSPoweruser, IGN, Benzinga, TheGamer, Android Headlines, Polygon, Wccftech, Push Square, Gameranx, The Game Post, and Video Games Chronicle
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Veo, an AI video model for generating “high-quality” 1080p videos in visual and cinematic styles, to businesses, beating OpenAI's Sora to market — Veo, Google's latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines.| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself — Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May 2024, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, some owned by business leaders — The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more — Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, and Cult of Mac
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility — At its re:Invent conference, Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @darryl-ruggles.cloud, @quinnypig.com, @quinnypig.com, and @quinnypig.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B — The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday …
More: Adobe, Shopify, WWD, Salesforce, Business Insider, CNN, MediaPost, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Retail Dive, PYMNTS.com, Chain Store Age, Media Play News, ABC7, Deseret News, and Hindustan Times. Forums: r/economy
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and best known for the firm's SpaceX and Anduril investments, steps down as a GP — Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, said on Tuesday that he's stepping down as a general partner.
More: The Information, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Scribe 2 review: smooth reading and writing experience, a new Premium Pen with a rubberized top eraser, and a svelte design, but relatively pricey — I'm not sure Amazon has done enough to justify charging more for its writing tablet. — Deputy Editor, Reviews — My hand is cramping.
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| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
In an interview, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said that he is “a little worried” about the strong concentration of top open-source AI models from China — China's open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “reasoning.”
More: CCN.com, Business Insider, and Inc
| The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of features and products for 12 days on December 5, sources say including text-to-video AI tool Sora — Happy holidays from OpenAI. The AI startup plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features and products for 12 days, starting on December 5th.
More: The Hindu, MSPoweruser, NewsBytes, South China Morning Post, and TechCrunch
| Elaine Moore / Financial Times: |
AI's rise has made job interviews more grueling, due to a rise in technical tests, essays, and assignments, as recruiters struggle to find the right candidates — Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one| The Information: |
Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts — Apple and Chinese search giant Baidu are working together to add artificial intelligence features to iPhones sold in China … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
CISAC study: generative AI risks costing music artists ~20% of their revenues by 2028; Abba's Björn Ulvaeus warns that AI “has the power to cause great damage” — ‘Very unfair’ for tech companies to use artists' work without paying them, says pop legend and head of advocacy group
More: CISAC, Music Business Worldwide, and Music Ally
| Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: |
NXP and Taiwanese TSMC affiliate Vanguard break ground on a $7.8B plant in Singapore to make 130nm to 40nm chips and are already working on phase two expansion — - NXP says expansion of JV with VIS in Singapore is ‘in plan’ — The Dutch firm is also building a Chinese chip supply chain
More: eeNews Europe, NXP Semiconductors, and DigiTimes
| Timothy Gardner / Reuters: |
Meta is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers, as it plans to add one to four gigawatts of US nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s — Meta (META.O) said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence …
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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @caseynewton. Threads: @andymstone. LinkedIn: Trey Lauderdale. Forums: r/news
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
DC's AG sues Amazon for allegedly secretly stopping its fastest delivery service to the nearly 50K Prime subscribers in historically lower-income neighborhoods — The District of Columbia's attorney general said the company deliberately outsourced Prime member deliveries in certain ZIP codes.
More: CNBC, Engadget, Forbes, and Office of Attorney General …
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein that largely evade custom checks, possibly by taxing their e-commerce revenue — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times: |
Romans and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb's planned two-night Colosseum experience for up to 32 guests in May 2025, saying it will demean a cultural treasure — An initiative by officials at the monument in a partnership with Airbnb has prompted an outcry among those who feel it will demean a cultural treasure.| Jennifer Hughes / Financial Times: |
Vanguard Chief Economist Joe Davis warns that investors' rush into AI stocks in 2024 overplays AI's near-term potential and risks a “correction” in share prices — Asset manager's chief economist Joe Davis says investors are overplaying the near-term potential of the technology
Bluesky: @emilprotalinski
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