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The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that directed the creation of deepfakes — The Treasury Department said Iran and Russia sought to divide Americans through targeted disinformation campaigns in the 2024 elections.
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| Matt Simons / Courthouse News Service: |
A judge blocks parts of California's SB 976, finding it may infringe on First Amendment rights, but allows a provision banning “addictive feeds” for minors — Parts of the law will still take effect Wednesday. — SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday barred … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI missed its goal to launch Media Manager, an opt-out tool for creators, by 2025; sources: the tool was rarely viewed as an important launch internally — Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data.| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Some 2024 LLM takeaways: multimodal vision became common, LLM prices crashed, overall environmental impact worsened despite efficiency gains, and slop arrived — A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here's a review of things we figured …
More: Don't Worry About the Vase. Bluesky: @randomwalker, @philipmai.com, @jweiss.io, @anildash.com, @aleximas, @randfish, and @simon.fedi.simonwillison …. Mastodon: @eloquence@social.coop
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and lobste.rs
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St. Louis-based tech services company World Wide Technology agrees to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in an all-cash deal valuing Softchoice 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 … | 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 …
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Bluesky: @bagder.mastodon.social …, @carnage4life, @joshgrant.online, and @quinnypig.com. Mastodon: @bagder@mastodon.social
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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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Bluesky: @vxundergroundre and @bradhoward
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, and @nixonnixoff@infosec.exchange
X: @nixonnixoff, @imposecost, @nixonnixoff, @vxdb, @benlovejoy, @vxunderground, @matthewkeyslive, @kimzetter, @vxunderground, and @kimzetter
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/army, and Slashdot
| 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 … | 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: South China Morning Post, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, Cryptopolitan, The Information, PYMNTS.com, WinBuzzer, and Reuters
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/baba, and Slashdot
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working for big publishers, passed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google and is behind 50%+ of Google takedown requests — Online piracy is a constant headache for copyright holders; one that's particularly hard to beat.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk got new support for his OpenAI lawsuit in filings last week, including from tech advocacy group Encode, backed by AI researchers like Geoffrey Hinton — The billionaire is attempting to block the ChatGPT maker's transition into a for-profit company. His own start-up xAI competes with OpenAI.
More: Hindustan Times, New York Post, Business Insider, ZeroHedge News, PhoneArena, and Gizmodo
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An investigation details how predatory men engage in the grooming of child influencers on Instagram under the guise of working as social media professionals — Photographers and other men offer to build online followings for young girls, but some are pedophiles who work with parents to sexualize them.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, and HotAir
Bluesky: @paramjitkahai, @justinm.one, @rweingarten, @shevotesil, @catmcamp, @cecillia.com.br, and @bencasselman
| 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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