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The FBI and CISA give US telcos best practices to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain on their networks — - Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.
More: Cybersecurity …, NBC News, Washington Post, Forbes, The Record, Associated Press, The Hacker News, Cyber Daily, CNN, ComputerWeekly.com, TechCrunch, Politico, Nextgov/FCW, DataBreachToday.com, and PCMag
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Mastodon: @thegibson@hackers.town, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @mhoye@mastodon.social, and @JessTheUnstill@infosec …
Forums: r/politics, r/conspiracy, r/technology, r/signal, and Slashdot
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says it's using Amazon's Trainium and Graviton chips to serve search services and is evaluating if Trainium2 chips can be used to pretrain its AI models — Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and will evaluate …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS unveils Nova models for Bedrock, including Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier for text generation, and Canvas for image generation and Reel for video generation — At its re:Invent conference on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, announced a new family …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility — At its re:Invent conference, Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
FTC bans location data providers Gravy Analytics and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data tied to sensitive locations and more — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry …
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B — The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday …
More: Adobe, Shopify, Salesforce, Business Insider, Bloomberg, WWD, CNN, Fox Business, Retail Dive, PYMNTS.com, Chain Store Age, and Barron's Online. Forums: r/economy
| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, with servers remaining on until June 3, 2025, and plans to cut ~277 people from the production team — Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025, but the game will no longer be offered for download, and player registration will be closed.
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Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/XDefiant, r/gaming, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps during major elections in the US, the UK, India, Indonesia, and others — At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
More: Meta, Engadget, CNET, The Hill, Social Media Today, The Hill, PetaPixel, The National Pulse, Tech.co, Washington Times, UPI, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and GovTech
Bluesky: @sigraff, @sigraff, @kint, @karaswisher, and @karaswisher
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Founders Fund's Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's VC firm and best known for investments in SpaceX and Anduril, steps down as a GP — Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, said on Tuesday that he's stepping down as a general partner.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces the general availability of its Trainium2 chips, and EC2 Trn2 UltraServers, which feature 64 Trainium2 chips, and slates Trainium3 for late 2025 — At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs).| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Vodka maker Stoli says an August 2024 ransomware attack contributed to the bankruptcy filing of its US arm, amid its ongoing issues with the Russian government — A ransomware attack on the multinational Stoli Group in August helped push two of the vodka-maker's U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy, the company's CEO said last week.
More: BleepingComputer, SC Media, Plain Dealer, ZeroHedge News, Fast Company, and Proactive
| Timothy Gardner / Reuters: |
Meta is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers, as it plans to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of new US nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s — Meta (META.O) said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence …
More: Meta Sustainability, Axios, Neowin, Maginative, ZeroHedge News, BNN Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, Engadget, and POWER Magazine
| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
Celsius Network founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky pleaded guilty in a US court to commodities fraud and a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the price of CEL — Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, said on Tuesday he intends to plead guilty to two counts of fraud.| Bloomberg: |
Bluesky COO Rose Wang says the social network is not “a US-centric, left-leaning app” and that Bluesky plans to launch a subscription service by the end of 2024 — - Company isn't building an app for ‘one voice,’ Wang says — Service has added more than 10 million US users since election| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $9.44B, vs. $9.34B est., net income up 25% YoY to $1.5B, and gives Q4 guidance above est.; CRM jumps 10%+ after hours — Salesforce shares were up 5% on Tuesday after the company reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings, reporting revenue … Sponsor Posts
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