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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Citizen Lab: NSO Group deployed at least three new “zero-click” hacks against iPhones with iOS 15 and early versions of iOS 16 in 2022; Apple fixed the exploits — SAN FRANCISCO — Israeli spyware maker NSO Group deployed at least three new “zero-click” hacks against iPhones last year …
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| New York Times: |
An investigation details how Mexico became Pegasus' first client, grew to be its most prolific user, and continues to use the spyware despite promising to stop — A Times investigation reveals the story behind how Mexico became the first and most prolific user of Pegasus.
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Abel Flores. Mastodon:
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says “anything is on the table, including relocating” if “regulatory clarity” for the crypto industry does not emerge in the US — Armstrong said “anything is on the table” in terms of Coinbase's plans should greater regulatory clarity not emerge in the U.S.
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| Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft has been developing an AI chip internally codenamed Athena since as early as 2019; some Microsoft and OpenAI staff are already testing Athena — After placing an early bet on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, Microsoft has another secret weapon in its arsenal …
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| BBC: |
WhatsApp, Signal, and other encrypted messaging apps sign a letter urging the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill, which would weaken online privacy — Encrypted messaging services have jointly called for changes to parts of the UK Online Safety Bill (OSB).
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram now lets users add up to five links to their account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and other “link in bio” services — Instagram today is rolling out a new feature for adding links to user profiles that challenges Linktree …
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| Bailee Hill / Fox News: |
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk says he's working on “TruthGPT or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe” — Tucker Carlson's exclusive interview with Musk airs Monday at 8pm ET on Fox News
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit to charge companies for API access, which many have used to train AI systems; the API will remain free for devs building apps that help people use Reddit — The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel says it is discontinuing its Blockscale chips, meant for mining bitcoin, after announcing them about a year ago — Came in late, leaving too early. — It's been just a year since Intel officially announced its Bitcoin-mining Blockscale ASICs, but today the company announced the end … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian customers have yet to fully benefit from Apple's India initiatives due to services like Apple Pay being unavailable and prohibitively expensive products — The reality is that millions of Indian consumers continue to purchase Apple products despite feeling like second-tier customers.
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
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Amit Gupta and Viren Sood
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| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
A winner at the Sony World Photography Awards rejects the award, saying his submission was AI-generated and meant to test if such competitions were ready for AI — A winner at this year's Sony World Photography Awards wasn't a photo at all. — Jordan Pearson
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@julianrademeyer, @harrymccracken, @nickfromupnorth, @elunaai, and @scalzi
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos launches Sonos Pro, a service that lets businesses play music across numerous locations without breaking licensing rules, for $35 per month per location — Maybe the long-rumored Sonos headphones aren't coming this year after all. A few months ago, CEO Patrick Spence announced …
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@chriswelch and @sonos
| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Apple launches its Apple Card Savings account, announced in October 2022, letting users deposit Daily Cash rewards into a 4.15% high yield account with no fees — Months after its first announcement, Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users, with users able to route Daily Cash rewards …
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Paul de Ruijter and Nami Baral
| Tim Keary / VentureBeat: |
SpecterOps, which analyzes potential attack paths hackers could exploit on platforms like Active Directory and Azure AD, raised a $25M Series A led by Decibel — Today, adversary simulation, detection and training services provider SpecterOps announced it has raised $25 million as part of a series A funding round led by Decibel.
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