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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users say Google's Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks — This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
More: iThinkDifferent, HotHardware, Financial Times, Wired, Engadget, KnowTechie, Bloomberg, Trak.in, EnterpriseAI, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, MediaNama, Business Today, and The Verge
Threads: @lucaspuskaric. X: @parmy, @tomgara, @firstadopter, @vitor_dlucca, @minchoi, @charlesarthur, @mohsen____, @svpino, @techcharts, @nkirankumars1, @buzzedison, @benjaminnetter, @tunguz, @ztobi, @filippie509, @ajones55555, @filippie509, @modestproposal1, @buzzedison, @tunguz, and @vitor_dlucca. Forums: Hacker News
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK accuses a unit of Russia's FSB of using cyberattacks in a “sustained but unsuccessful” campaign to undermine British democratic institutions since 2015 — The British government accused a unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday of using cyberattacks in a …
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X: @msftsecintel, @gordoncorera, @imincorrigible, @danwblack, @dmitryopines, @jimmysecuk, @sixdub, @eliothiggins, @mike_eckel, and @gordoncorera. LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default for one-on-one chats and calls, fulfilling a yearslong promise; E2EE for group chats remains opt-in — Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally fulfilling …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, and r/technology
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft announces a major security leadership reshuffle as part of its Secure Future Initiative, replacing Bret Arsenault with Igor Tsyganskiy as Global CISO — Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant shakeup of its security team, with its long-time leader being put into a new role …
More: DataBreachToday.com, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, and TechCircle
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Montenegro Justice Minister Andrej Milovic has privately said he plans to extradite Do Kwon to the US rather than South Korea to face criminal charges — Alexander Osipovich and Marko Vešović — Montenegro's top justice official has privately said he plans … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony removing Discovery content due to licensing “arrangements” and unexpectedly banning PSN accounts are timely reminders that users don't own digital content — In less than a week, Sony has given us two timely reminders of the tenuousness of digital “ownership” — and both reminders involve things on PlayStation.
More: Kotaku, PlayStation, Business Insider, and New York Times
Mastodon: @mookie@troublemaker.social. X: @datnofact, @jezcorden, @tomwarren, @jaay_rock_, @hazzadorgamin, @jezcorden, and @ethangach
Forums: Hacker News, r/playstation, and r/dvdcollection
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla's Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla in November; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo — Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … | Reuters: |
Reuters temporarily removes its article titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision — Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued …
More: 404 Media and Techdirt
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood launches a commission-free crypto trading app, supporting 25+ cryptocurrencies, in the EU, a week after the company launched stock trading in the UK — - More than 25 tokens available to trade for free at launch — Launch comes as Bitcoin's price recovers to 19-month high
More: Robinhood Newsroom, Decrypt, TechCrunch, Blockonomi, The Dark Side, CCN.com, Finbold, Cryptopolitan, CNBC, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Crowdfund Insider, Fortune, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, Cryptonews, Watcher Guru, CryptoGlobe, and Reuters
X: @emilyjnicolle, @johannkerbrat, @robinhoodcrypto, and @robinhoodcrypto. LinkedIn: Dougal Weir. Forums: Hacker News
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook estimates that at least ~3,200 private venture-backed US startups, which had raised a combined $27.2B in VC funding, have gone out of business in 2023 — After staving off collapse by cutting costs, many young tech companies are out of options, fueling a cash bonfire.
More: PYMNTS.com. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @mimsical@mastodon.social, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @dhh, @milkman__dead, @workmj, @bernardleong, @bigblackjacobin, and @bedwardstiek
LinkedIn: Annu Nieminen, Amy Siskind, and Gus Bessalel
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Apple's guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain a push notification token's associated Apple ID “with a subpoena”; Google requires a court order — Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft says Russia-aligned propagandists duped at least seven Western celebrities via Cameo into recording videos used to attack Ukraine's President Zelensky — Microsoft found that celebrities were tricked into making videos used to attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
More: Microsoft On the Issues, SiliconANGLE, The Record, CyberScoop, NBC News, Wired, and New York Times
| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
X rolls out xAI's snarky, anti-woke chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users; X CEO Linda Yaccarino describes Grok as “the ultimate ride or die” — Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday. — Elon Musk's snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok …
Bluesky: @alexandraerin.com and @andimann.bsky.social
X: @zeffmax, @elonmusk, @scobleizer, @greg16676935420, @lindayax, and @elonmusk
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers detail AutoSpill, a flaw in Android that can expose users' saved credentials from 1Password, LastPass, Keeper, and other popular password managers — A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps.
More: MobileSyrup, Tech.co, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, and Dark Reading
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based ContactMonkey, which offers an internal communications tool that integrates with Outlook, Gmail, and more, raised a $55M Series A led by Updata — Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is. — Today, ContactMonkey …
More: ContactMonkey
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out tags on Threads, offering support for multiple words and spaces, and no # symbol; posts can only have one tag and the tag view is the search view — Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday.
More: 9to5Google, Engadget, Neowin, BGR, and Social Media Today
Threads: @mosseri, @titanjibk, @erika_lucas07, @mosseri, @emmyloop, @datadrivenmd, and @hawaii. Bluesky: @adnan.social
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Block opens preorders for its self-custodial Bitcoin hardware wallet Bitkey in 95+ countries, coming to the US in early 2024 for $150, after a beta in June 2023 — Block, the payments company led by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Thursday that Bitkey, a physical device …
More: Business Wire, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Blockworks, crypto.news, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Cointelegraph
| Wall Street Journal: |
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the “goal in firing Sam [Altman] was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to say why she and others voted to fire him — In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI's power struggle
More: Los Angeles Times, The Decoder, The Verge, and TIME
X: @jessefelder, @meghanbobrowsky, @kyliebytes, @alexeheath, @garymarcus, @kchristidis_, and @dseetharaman. Forums: Hacker News
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tests a $9.99/month grocery subscription service for Prime members, offering unlimited Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh grocery delivery on orders over $35 — - Amazon is betting members of its Prime program will want to pay a separate monthly fee for unlimited grocery delivery on some orders.| Anton Shilov / AnandTech: |
TrendForce: the top 10 chip foundries' Q3 revenue rose 7.9% YoY to ~$28.29B; TSMC was first at ~$17B; Intel made the list for the first time in several quarters — The global foundry industry witnessed a substantial rise in demand in the third quarter of 2023, according to TrendForce.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development by offering tools and evaluations for safely building open generative AI models — Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to promote the responsible development of artificial intelligence systems with a new initiative called Purple Llama.
More: Meta, Meta, PYMNTS.com, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, insideBIGDATA, and Axios
Threads: @chriscox. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @cotdp, @sourab_m, @tangrikunal, @stevejarrett, @sam_witteveen, @soumithchintala, @_philschmid, @simonw, @moyix, @scale_ai, @aiatmeta, @nickclegg, and @metanewsroom
LinkedIn: Sayeed Choudhury, Steve Jarrett, and Kunal Tangri
| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Sources: Bungie's October 2023 layoffs came alongside a scramble to avoid a total Sony takeover, which may happen if Bungie doesn't meet certain financial goals — The Destiny 2 and Marathon developer may not be able to cling to the last of its independence forever.
More: TweakTown, GamingBolt, Forbes, GameRevolution, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, KitGuru, and Gamereactor UK
X: @jpdeathblade, @demonjoetv, @ethangach, @kyleblessing, @ggpedroperes, @mynameisbyf, @duckvalentine, @daveoshry, @tomwarren, @jasonschreier, and @destinlegarie. LinkedIn: Richard King
Forums: Hacker News, r/Marathon, r/XboxSeriesX, r/gamernews, r/pcgaming, r/destiny2, r/Asmongold, r/gaming, r/PS4, r/technology, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Gene Levoff, the ex-Apple lawyer who pled guilty to insider trading from 2011 to 2016, to four years of probation; Apple fired him in 2018 — - Gene Levoff was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday — Judge said the Stanford Law graduate already lost his career| Jim Norman / Nintendo Life: |
Nintendo cancels Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo and delays Splatoon and Mario Kart esports events after “persistently receiving threats” against staff and spectators — Splatoon and Mario Kart events postponed too — Nintendo has today announced that the first Nintendo Live event of 2024 …
More: The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, Game Developer, IGN, Game Rant, Gizmodo, Polygon, Dot Esports, Kotaku, Gameranx, and GamesIndustry.biz
X: @genki_jpn and @joemerrick
| Financial Times: |
A profile of Chinese whistleblower Tang Mingfang, who is still paying the price for calling out injustices at a Foxconn factory making Amazon devices in 2019 — Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed — except for him| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells customers that the company plans to stop accepting Venmo as a payment method on January 10, 2024, after rolling out Venmo support in October 2022 — - Amazon will no longer allow users to pay with Venmo beginning Jan. 10, according to a notice sent to users.
More: TechCrunch, Finextra, Bloomberg, The Verge, Engadget, Payments Dive, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Rhythms, which plans to use AI to analyze companies' patterns, such as monthly reviews and weekly meetings, comes out of stealth with a $26M seed — Seattle tech veteran Vetri Vellore is launching a new startup with a big vision to help companies improve their productivity …
More: FinSMEs, TechStartups, TechCrunch, Rhythms, and VC News Daily
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Q&A with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on AI's business uses, Biden's EO, rolling out WatsonX in July 2023, growing IBM's AI business, falling behind in AI, and more — - IBM is angling hard for an AI comeback story, and CEO Arvind Krishna is counting on a recent pivot to enterprise AI tools in order to get there.| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bitzlato co-founder Anatoly Legkodymov pleads guilty in the US to operating a money transmitter for illicit funds and agrees to dissolve the crypto exchange — Anatoly Legkodymov says he'll dissolve the sanctioned exchange as part of his plea. — Register Now
More: US Department of Justice, US Department of Justice, BleepingComputer, Coinspeaker, PaymentSecurity.io, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, The Record, Tech Xplore, crypto.news, The Verge, Blockworks, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, TechStartups, and CoinGape
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @brett@infosec.exchange. X: @silvermanjacob, @baddcompani, and @ednynews
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