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Sources: in a secret January order, UK security officials demanded that Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user globally has uploaded — Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content …
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Mastodon: @evacide@hachyderm.io, @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social, @thirstybear@agilodon.social, @cwebber@social.coop, @karlemilnikka@social …, @henry@dindon.one, @dcdeejay@mastodon.online, and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
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LinkedIn: Mike Chapple and Tim Turner
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK used Snoopers' Charter to send a “technical capability notice” to Apple; notice recipients aren't allowed to warn users of weakened security — British government orders US tech group to grant secret access to its customers' accounts
More: MacRumors, Livemint, The Independent, The Sun, The Standard, Reuters, Forbes, and CNBC. Mastodon: @kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
WBD took $300M in gaming writedowns in 2024; current and former staff blame a lack of a strong, cohesive vision during former games chief David Haddad's tenure — Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery took $300 million in losses on gaming. The near future is rife with additional challenges.| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Kadrey v. Meta: unsealed emails show Meta allegedly torrented 81.7TB+ of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna's Archive, for AI training — Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the “most damning evidence” yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging …
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple settles a lawsuit against a former iOS Software Engineer who leaked Journal app details and more to journalists; the employee issues an apology on X — Last March, Apple filed a lawsuit against one of its former employees, an iOS Software Engineer who had leaked confidential information …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, MacRumors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that attackers are using static ASP.NET machine keys found online to inject malware into ViewState, which controls web form state during reloads — Microsoft warns that attackers are deploying malware in ViewState code injection attacks using static ASP. NET machine keys found online.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google edited Gemini's response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about Gouda cheese, regurgitated from seeming SEO-optimized blogs — Gemini's response no longer says that Gouda makes up '50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption.'
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Sources: DOGE is pushing to develop GSAi, a custom generative AI chatbot for the US GSA to boost productivity, analyze contract and procurement data, and more — The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Trump issues an EO pausing the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China until systems are in place to “process and collect tariff revenue” — President Donald Trump has paused the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China.
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| Thomas Escritt / Reuters: |
A German court rules that X must provide researchers access to data for tracking misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany's national election — Elon Musk's social media platform X must release information enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying information on the network, a German court ruled on Friday.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence is in talks to raise funding at a $20B+ valuation, up from a $5B valuation in its September 2024 funding round — Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever last year …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates o3-mini's chain of thought to help free and paid ChatGPT users “understand how the model thinks”, in response to DeepSeek and other competitors — In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to unveil its long-awaited overhaul of the iPhone SE as early as next week, opting to reveal it on its website instead of at a launch event — - Revamped SE model is set to be unveiled in the coming days — Apple plans flurry of 2025 products, including smart home hub
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Sources: SoftBank is set to invest $40B in OpenAI at a $260B pre-money valuation; investors last valued OpenAI at $157B, when it raised $6.6B in October 2024 — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices
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| Dominique Vidalon / Reuters: |
Paris cyber prosecutors open a probe into X over alleged algorithmic distortions, after an MP sent a complaint on January 12 that X was using biased algorithms — Paris prosecutors have opened a probe into Elon Musk's X social media over alleged algorithmic distortions, Franceinfo reports on Friday, citing the prosecutors' office.| Financial Times: |
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta reported a combined $246B capex in 2024, up 63% YoY from $151B, and forecast that their 2025 spending could exceed $320B — Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet forecast massive capital expenditure despite investor concerns about returns and DeepSeek
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Hugging Face researchers release “Open Deep Research” an open-source AI agent created in 24 hours, aiming to match OpenAI's Deep Research performance — On Tuesday, Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called “Open Deep Research,” … | Bloomberg: |
Uber's stock jumps 7%+ after Bill Ackman disclosed that his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owns 30.3M shares; Pershing started buying in January — Bill Ackman said his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owns 30.3 million shares of Uber Technologies Inc. …
More: New York Post, Financial Times, Reuters, Sherwood News, Motley Fool, Wall Street Pit, ZeroHedge News, and Barron's Online. X: @billackman
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta and UNESCO launch the Language Technology Partner Program to collect speech recordings and transcriptions to aid the development of openly available AI — Meta is launching a new program in partnership with UNESCO to collect speech recordings and transcriptions the company said will help … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Mistral partnered with Cerebras to help its Le Chat app respond to user questions at 1,000 words per second, making Le Chat the world's fastest AI assistant — Cerebras Systems, an artificial intelligence chip firm backed by UAE tech conglomerate G42, said on Thursday it has partnered … | Financial Times: |
Analysis: 736 memecoins were deposited in $TRUMP wallet over the past three weeks using a Solana function that allows dumping coins into wallets without consent — More than 700 coins deposited into US president's wallet in apparent attempts to suggest his endorsement| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
In a meeting with GOP lawmakers, Donald Trump proposed taxing carried interest as ordinary income, a policy that could sharply increase the tax bill for VCs — On Thursday, President Trump asked Republican lawmakers to end tax breaks on carried interest. — The tax break allows private equity …
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