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TikTok still faces a US ban if not sold by January 19, after a federal appeals court ruled that Congress has the power to take action to protect US interests — Panel rules Congress has the power to shut down Chinese-backed app in the U.S. because of national security concerns
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LinkedIn: Devin DeBacker and Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/law, r/economy, r/neoliberal, r/Music, r/politics, and MacRumors Forums
| CNN: |
Romania's top court annuls presidential election, after its security council revealed “hybrid Russian attacks”, like cyberattacks and TikTok influence campaigns — Romania's constitutional court has annulled the first round of the country's 2024 presidential election process …
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Bluesky: @emilprotalinski. Mastodon: @youranonriots@kolektiva …. X: @markomihkelson, @smuresan, @paulaerizanu, @thestudyofwar, @ianbremmer, @berlin_bridge, @smuresan, @rob_roos, and @krassenstein
Forums: Hacker News and r/AskBalkans
| Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: |
The EU sends TikTok an urgent request for information on Russia's role in Romanian election turmoil, a day after ordering it to retain all election-related data — The European Union said Friday it sent TikTok an urgent request for more information about Romanian intelligence files suggesting … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's in-house modems will debut next spring in the new iPhone SE, with 2nd-gen modems expected in higher-end products like iPhone 18 lineup in 2026 — - Company plans first modem in 2025 and high-end version in 2026 — Initial chip, in iPhone SE, won't match Qualcomm capabilities
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces Llama 3.3 70B, a text-only model that Meta claims can deliver the performance of its largest Llama model at a lower cost — Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B. — In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Ubisoft shareholders are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the game maker without reducing the founding Guillemot family's control — Shareholders of Ubisoft Entertainment SA (UBIP.PA) are considering how to structure a possible buyout of the Assassin's Creed video …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is discussing ditching a clause that cuts off Microsoft's access to OpenAI tech if OpenAI develops AGI, so that Microsoft can continue investing — Start-up discusses removing provision to protect powerful technology from being misused for commercial purposes
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: trading and investment platform eToro weighs a US IPO as soon as Q2, 2025, seeking a $3.5B+ valuation; it has 38M+ registered users from 75 countries — - EToro is weighing going public as soon as the second quarter — Company had previously attempted to go public via SPAC
More: The Information, Coinpedia Fintech News, Coinspeaker, and crypto.news. LinkedIn: Bailey Lipschultz
| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
SpaceX got a Pentagon contract in August to expand Ukraine's access to Starshield, an encrypted signal over Starlink that's more difficult to hack into or jam — - Added Pentagon funding brings total terminals to 3,000 — Encrypted Starshield signal is difficult to hack into or jam| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide launch a small-scale commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, marking Uber's first international AV offering — Ride-hail giant Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide have launched a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft ends production of its $4,500+ Surface Studio 2+, after announcing the all-in-one desktop in October 2022, with seemingly no plans to make a successor — Surface Studio 2+ is now out of stock in most markets, and there are seemingly no plans to make a new one.
More: MacRumors, The Verge, Patently Apple, Neowin, Ars Technica, ExtremeTech, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @crowslabyrinth.com and @zac.onl. X: @tomwarren. LinkedIn: James Sanders. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Apollo Research: |
An evaluation of six frontier AI models for in-context scheming when strongly nudged to pursue a goal: only OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming in all the tests — Paper: You can find the detailed paper here. — Transcripts: We provide a list of cherry-picked transcripts here.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
xAI makes its AI chatbot Grok available to all users of X; non-Premium subscribers can send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours — Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is now available to free users on X. Several users noticed the change on Friday, which gives non-Premium subscribers the ability … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Apple's John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak on the company's work on transformer-based AI models after GPT-3, building Apple Intelligence, more — Apple's leaders claim the company wasn't late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the best, not the first.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The “AI is fake and sucks” people who take phony comfort in their AI skepticism need to accept that AI is more real and dangerous than they currently admit — It's fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it's real and dangerous — I.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI expands its Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program to let developers create expert models in specific domains with very little training data — What is Reinforcement Fine-Tuning? — This new model customization technique enables developers to customize our models using dozens …
More: ZDNET and TechRadar
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A US teen faces backlash for making ~$50K via a “soft rug pull” on Pump.Fun, which made $250M+ in less than a year and is struggling to protect users from scams — In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin he'd made on a lark.
Bluesky: @davidgilbert, @joelkhalili, and @natashabernal. LinkedIn: Joel Khalili
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/technews
| Financial Times: |
Industry insiders believe Pat Gelsinger's hasty exit could be a prelude to Intel moving away from manufacturing its chips altogether, in a blow to US ambitions — The Silicon Valley-based company could scale back its semiconductor manufacturing business in a blow to American ambitions| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung releases One UI 7 beta for Galaxy S24, with a huge visual overhaul, a “Now Bar”, a vertically scrolling app drawer, new security and AI tools, and more — Months later than expected, Samsung has officially unveiled its Android 15 update, One UI 7, and the company …
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