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Sources: Apple is working on a foldable device the size of two iPad Pros for 2028, a Magic Mouse revamp, and an AirTag with triple the range of the current one — Apple's new vision for the future of computing is a giant, iPad-like foldable device. Also: The company rethinks the mouse …
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| Aimee Ortiz / New York Times: |
Officials say hackers likely accessed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders, and there's a “high probability” sensitive info was stolen — An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people …
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Bluesky: @GossiTheDog.cyberplace …. X: @stephmachado, @timwhiteri, and @tednesi. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockchain among new developers — Ethereum remained the blockchain with the most devs, and the overall population of software builders in crypto was flat, the VC firm said in its annual survey.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
How tech is stoking cycles of violence in US schools, with students using phones and social media to arrange, provoke, record, and spread school brawl videos — Ricardo Martinez, an 11th grader, was in his high school lunchroom in April when a mass brawl erupted.
More: Globe and Mail. Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @markmedley, and @superwuster. Threads: @lulugnavarro
| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
How some companies are using AI agents: McKinsey for client onboarding, insurer Nsure to handle customer requests, and Accenture to support its marketing team — AI agents go beyond chatbots. “This is really the rise of digital labor.” — If you're just getting up to speed on chatbots and copilots, you're already falling behind.| William Langley / Financial Times: |
Chinese merchants are rapidly expanding their presence on Russian e-commerce platforms like Ozon Global and Wildberries to find new markets and avoid US tariffs — Ozon and Wildberries welcome Chinese sellers looking for new markets as sanctions hit both countries' traders| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
The merger of advertising giants Omnicom and Interpublic shows how the industry is preparing for an AI-driven upheaval, which is squeezing out creative talent — Two advertisers are combining into a $30 billion behemoth to harness the data, tech and AI expertise now dominating Madison Avenue—and all the marketing you see| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Telegram says it removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, and its new moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov's arrest — Telegram has been under unprecedented pressure to clean up its platform this year, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested …
More: Telegram Messenger, Tech in Asia, and Cryptopolitan
Bluesky: @kwerb.com, @tanyalokot, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
| Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg: |
TikTok critics like Marco Rubio, Jacob Helberg, and Brendan Carr are set for senior roles in Trump's administration, emphasizing Trump's murky stance on the app — - Longtime China critic Helberg named under secretary of State — Rubio pushed for congress's TikTok divest-or-ban law last year
More: Times of Malta
| New York Times: |
While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the past week's frenzy of tech leaders to woo Trump stood out from other industries — It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.
More: Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Hill, Axios, and Althouse
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. Threads: @yonetteajoseph. X: @raymondpsimon, @producercities, @modestproposal1, and @modestproposal1. Forums: r/politics
| Jason Parham / Wired: |
A look at Blacksky, the Bluesky custom feed curated by a team of six moderators that is slowly turning into the main avenue for many Black users on the service — The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky.| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
A profile of Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who has urged AI companies and other tech startups to boost US competitiveness and national security — Silicon Valley investor and podcast host has joined Elon Musk in securing a key role in incoming US administrationSponsor Posts
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