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The US arrests a US Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, who sold sensitive customer call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon in the Snowflake hack — Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m …
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| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
The US DOJ files a complaint and announces a civil enforcement action against fintech startup Dave and CEO Jason Wilk, replacing an FTC complaint from November — The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint and announced a civil enforcement action on Monday against financial technology company Dave Inc … | Reuters: |
Montenegro extradites Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to the US; South Korea also sought Do Kwon's extradition — Montenegro on Tuesday extradited Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to the United States, the interior ministry said. — Kwon, a South Korean national … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Alibaba cuts prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by up to 85%, after cutting Qwen prices by as much as 97% in May, amid growing AI competition in China — Alibaba is cutting prices on its large language models by up to 85%, the Chinese tech giant announced Tuesday.
More: The Information, PYMNTS.com, South China Morning Post, WinBuzzer, and Reuters
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India removes a 100M user cap on WhatsApp Pay, letting Meta roll out the mobile payments service to all of its 500M+ users in the country — India has removed restrictions on WhatsApp's mobile payments service in a significant victory for Meta in its largest market by users as it seeks to compete with entrenched fintech rivals.
More: Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, YourStory.com, Hindustan Times, and The Verge
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India extends a deadline for implementing a 30% cap on any company's share of transactions on UPI payments network, providing relief to Google Pay and PhonePe — India has once again pushed back a contentious plan to limit big technology companies' control of the nation's digital payments system …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
St. Louis-based tech services company World Wide Technology agrees to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in an all-cash deal valuing the latter at ~CA$1.8B — One last mega-deal closed out an eventful 2024. — On Tuesday, World Wide Technology (WWT), a tech services company based in St. Louis … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Some 2024 LLM takeaways: multimodal vision became common, LLM prices crashed, overall environmental impact worsened despite efficiency gains, slop arrived, more — A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here's a review of things we figured …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find 4.5M “stars” on GitHub repos they suspect are fake; in July, Check Point found a network of inauthentic users starring repos containing malware — GitHub has a problem with inauthentic “stars” used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam … | Reuters: |
Samsung invests $181M in South Korean robot maker Rainbow Robotics, boosting its stake to 35%, and launches a Future Robotics Office reporting to the CEO — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) became the largest shareholder of South Korea's Rainbow Robotics (277810.KQ), the robotics company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.| Patrick Holland / CNET: |
Inside Apple labs testing and calibrating iPhone 16 series' audio and video features, including new Audio Mix editing tools and 4K slow motion capabilities — I'm standing on a wire mesh floor in a secluded room at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California.
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In 2024, Intel had its worst year since going public in 1971, losing 61% of value; Broadcom stock soared 111%, its best performance ever, driven by AI revenue — It was a big year for silicon in Silicon Valley — but a brutal one for the company most responsible for the area's moniker.Sponsor Posts
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