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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.
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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, Cyber Daily, The Hacker News, CNN, ComputerWeekly.com, and Associated Press
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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: Bloomberg and TechCrunch
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, the OpenAI partnership, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, 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.| Elaine Moore / Financial Times: |
AI's rise has made job interviews more gruelling, with an increase in 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
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| 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 … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says it is using Amazon's Trainium and Graviton chips to serve search services, and is evaluating if Trainium2 chips can be used to pretrain its AI models — Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and will evaluate …
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X: @danielnewmanuv, @caro_milanesi, @bobodtech, @marceloplima, @marceloplima, and @patrickmoorhead. LinkedIn: Macarena Barbosa Cattani
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Vodka maker Stoli says an August 2024 ransomware attack contributed to the bankruptcy filing of its US arm, amid its ongoing issues with the Russian government — A ransomware attack on the multinational Stoli Group in August helped push two of the vodka-maker's U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy, the company's CEO said last week.| Reuters: |
Chinese AI company SenseTime says it completed a major organizational restructuring to focus on generative AI, shifting from computer vision and surveillance — Loss-making Chinese AI company SenseTime Group (0020.HK) said on Tuesday it has completed a major organizational restructuring aimed …
More: South China Morning Post, New York Times, Tech in Asia, KrASIA, and TechNode
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
CISAC study: generative AI risks costing music artists ~20% of their revenue 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: Forbes, CISAC, Music Business Worldwide, and Music Ally
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Netflix says Netflix Japan passed 10M+ subscribers in H1 2024 and has doubled its user base in the past four years thanks to Japanese-language programming — Netflix's (NFLX.O) subscribers passed 10 million in Japan in the first half of this year with the streaming firm's Japanese-language …
More: PhoneArena, The Asahi Shimbun, and The Mainichi
| Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Sources: Meta's internal coding tool, Metamate, incorporates OpenAI's GPT-4 alongside Llama to make the tool more useful for developers and other Meta staff — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — Despite Mark Zuckerberg hailing Meta's Llama AI model as among the best in tech, his company is happy to also use a rival when needed.| 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 discussing an expansion of the facility — - 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 and NXP® Semiconductors …
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B via a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in early 2020 — Veeam, which helps its users secure and recover their data, has seen its valuation spike in a recent secondary sale that was aimed …
More: Tech Funding News and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein, including a new tax on e-commerce revenue, to combat a flood of packages — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| Jennifer Hughes / Financial Times: |
Vanguard's Chief Economist Joe Davis warns that the rush into AI stocks in 2024 has overplayed 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| Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times: |
People living in Rome and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb's planned Colosseum experience for 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.Sponsor Posts
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