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Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based Run:ai, which helps orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and plans to open source Run:ai's software — Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and said that it would open-source the software.
More: Bloomberg, Run:ai Blog, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, The Information, Cryptopolitan, OC3D, Globes Online, Proactive, Tom's Hardware, CTech, Benzinga, and Notebookcheck
Forums: r/technology, r/nvidia, and Slashdot
| Thanos Pappas / Carscoops: |
VW Group had sensitive info, including GPS coordinates, of 800K+ electric vehicles exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before it was alerted — The sensitive information of VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV owners was left exposed on an unprotected and misconfigured cloud storage system for months| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Source: accounting startup Bench, which had raised $100M+ and abruptly shut down last week, will be acquired by Employer.com for an undisclosed price — Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that left thousands of customers locked out of their accounts after it suddenly shut down last week …
More: The Information, GeekWire, and PYMNTS.com
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8 — The U.S. Treasury told lawmakers in a letter Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack earlier in December, which the department has attributed to Chinese government hackers.
More: Reuters, Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNN, New York Times, Reuters, Axios, Sky News Australia, The Hill, The Verge, BleepingComputer, Washington Post, Reuters, South China Morning Post, BBC News, Al Jazeera, Metro.co.uk, New York Post, The Independent, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, The Gateway Pundit, Newsweek, GB News, United States Department of the Treasury, Fox Business, Associated Press, Raw Story, The i Paper, and The Post Millennial
X: @0xalexei, @lorenzofb, and @congressmanraja
Forums: r/Superstonk, r/wallstreetbets, r/politics, r/PrepperIntel, r/technology, r/technology, r/politics, r/technology, and r/Destiny
| The Information: |
Source: ByteDance keeps using a loophole for US chip sanctions and told suppliers it planned to spend up to $7B to access Nvidia chips outside China in 2025 — ByteDance continues to use Nvidia's most advanced artificial intelligence chips despite U.S. efforts to block Chinese companies from using them.| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Waymo robotaxis, which are now ubiquitous in parts of CA, will often not stop for pedestrians using crosswalks there, unless a pedestrian is far into the road — Our tech columnist captured videos of Waymo self-driving cars failing to stop for him at a crosswalk. How does an AI learn how to break the law?
More: San Francisco Chronicle. Bluesky: @skynetandchill.com and @pete-nash. Mastodon: @BenRossTransit@mastodon …. Threads: @crumbler. Forums: r/sanfrancisco
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The UK's CMA opens an antitrust investigation into IBM's planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp; the US FTC has been investigating it since July — The Competition and Markets Authority, the U.K.'s antitrust watchdog, has opened an investigation into whether IBM's planned acquisition …
More: SiliconANGLE and Wall Street Journal
| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, signs a deal with Starlink to roll out text messaging in Q4 2025, and plans to add voice and data in later stages — - Kyivstar to offer text messages via Starlink by late 2025 — Starlink terminals are critical to Ukraine's war effort
More: Motley Fool, Benzinga, The Stack, The Kyiv Independent, Business Insider, Quartz, ZeroHedge News, Reuters, and Daily Sabah
| Mark Johnson / Washington Post: |
Johns Hopkins and Stanford researchers say they trained robots with videos to perform surgical tasks with the skill of human doctors, even correcting mistakes — Robots have been trained to perform surgical tasks with the skill of human doctors, even learning to correct their own mistakes during surgeries.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
The technology of passkeys is elegant, but the complexities of syncing them to password managers can contribute to platform lock-in and make them less usable — It's that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems …
More: Tao of Mac. Mastodon: @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone. Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| New York Times: |
Donald Trump's next term may widen the longstanding speech divide between the US and Europe, putting social media companies in the middle of a global tug-of-war — President-elect Donald J. Trump's picks for the F.C.C. and F.T.C. have vowed to remove censorship online.| Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January 21, after Trump's inauguration; CFTC alleged Gemini misled the agency in its 2017 bid to debut BTC futures — The civil case between the US financial regulator and Gemini Trust Company was initially scheduled to go to trial before Donald Trump's inauguration.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
A look at IDF's Unit 8200, which uses AI systems to help identify human targets, and a debate inside Israel's military about the quality of AI-derived intel — Years before the Gaza war, Israel transformed its intelligence unit into an AI testing ground, triggering a debate among top commanders …
More: SPLICETODAY.com, Middle East Monitor, and Associated Press
Bluesky: @vgalaz, @bengoggin, @heidykhlaaf, @abujamajem.com, @maxboot, and @washingtonpost.com
X: @lizzadwoskin, @ryangrim, @lizzadwoskin, @lizzadwoskin, @lailaalarian, @novussubsole, @jimsciutto, @shashj, @mchorowitz, and @shashj. LinkedIn: Benjamin Donham
Forums: Hacker News, r/samharris, and r/worldnews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Law enforcement officials worldwide say Chinese mafia boss Wan Kuok-koi, aka Broken Tooth, has played a central role in the emergence of “pig butchering” scams — Chinese mobster known as Broken Tooth is sanctioned by U.S. but remains free, selling swag and cutting ribbonsSponsor Posts
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