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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.
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| 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
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Bluesky: @evacide. Mastodon: @harrysintonen@infosec …. X: @alex_avoigt, @electricfelix, @om, @alenapopova, @nzahn42, @m_hoppenstedt, @guydealership, @lukeweston, @kyleichan, and @stakedeve. LinkedIn: Gerry Kennedy
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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.
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X: @nvidia and @danielnewmanuv
Forums: r/technology, r/nvidia, and Slashdot
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Agence France-Presse: |
Venezuela's top court fines TikTok $10M over viral challenge deaths, citing a failure to take necessary measures, and orders it to open an office in the country — Venezuela's highest court Monday fined TikTok $10 million in connection with viral challenges that authorities …
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| 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.
More: TechCrunch and Benzinga
X: @the_ai_investor, @kakashiii111, and @miles_brundage
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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| 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: Wall Street Journal and SiliconANGLE
| 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.
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| 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.| 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?Sponsor Posts
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