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Andi Yu / ABC:
DP World Australia, the country's second largest port operator, shuts down after a cyber attack, impacting the movement of goods in and out of the country  —  Australia's second largest port operator has shut down because of a cyber security incident, impacting the movement of goods in and out of the country.
Wall Street Journal:
Ex-FTX execs, including general counsel Can Sun, plan to launch crypto exchange Backpack and say they want to protect user funds with lessons from FTX's failure  —  Ex-FTX lawyer Can Sun and other former company executives want the new exchange to allow customers to verify holdings at any time
Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg:
Filing: FTX sues crypto exchange Bybit and two affiliates to recover ~$953M that they allegedly withdrew using “VIP” status just before FTX filed Chapter 11  —  - FTX claims Bybit affiliate used “VIP” status to withdraw funds  — Bybit's Mirana withdrew $327 million just before FTX pause
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
How Lukasz Krupski, a Tesla whistleblower in Norway, leaked personnel records and Autopilot data that caught the attention of regulators in several countries  —  An employee who was fired after expressing safety concerns leaked personnel records and sensitive data about driver-assistance software.
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:
Humane's Ai Pin seems like a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager, the lack of apps feels extremely limiting, and the $699 price is hard to understand  —  The Humane AI pin has no screen, no apps, and a creepy in-your-face camera.  —  Not since Magic Leap has a “next-generation” …
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
London-based Monument, a digital bank focused on mass affluent clients, raised a $50M Series B, a source says at a £150M+ pre-money valuation  —  Monument Bank's Series C fundraising is being launched immediately after the completion of a £40m injection from shareholders including Dubai Investments, Sky News understands.
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
A look at custom chatbots, or GPTs, which are tailored for specific tasks and represent an important step in OpenAI's strategy of “gradual iterative deployment”  —  The age of autonomous A.I. assistants could have huge implications.  —  You could think of the recent history of A.I. chatbots as having two distinct phases.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Report: Apple product and search result pages on Amazon have few, if any, rival ads, after Apple asked for preferential treatment, leading to their 2018 deal  —  Apple and Amazon are once again facing scrutiny for their 2018 agreement that saw Apple finally establish an official Amazon storefront.
Steph Batalis / Foreign Policy:
Chatbots can lower the information barrier to help malicious actors build a bioweapon, making guardrails during chatbot development a good step for biosecurity  —  Artificial intelligence can help users engineer pathogens—but that's not the real danger.  —  Human extinction, mass unemployment …

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From Mediagazer

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

More News

Rolling Stone:
SAG-AFTRA's deal would require studios to obtain consent before creating digital replicas of living and deceased actors, disclose their use, and pay to use them
Diana Britton / Wealth Management:
Arch, which provides operations and reporting services for private investments, raised a $20M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, taking its total funding to $25M+
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register:
LockBit leaks ~50GB of data that the ransomware gang claims to have stolen from Boeing in October, after the company apparently refused to pay the ransom demand
Scott Stein / CNET:
Hands-on with Apple's spatial videos: easy to record on an iPhone 15 Pro and viewing on a Vision Pro is an impressive experience with compellingly realistic 3D

Earlier Picks

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Maine's government says that MOVEit hackers may have accessed the personal information of ~1.3M individuals, which is close to the state's entire population
Amanda Hoover / Wired:
Omegle shut down as part of a settlement with a user who sued the chat website company claiming its design enabled her to be sexually abused since age 11
Decrypt:
Justin Sun's crypto exchange Poloniex says hackers stole $126M+ worth of crypto assets and that the company is working with other exchanges to recover the funds
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says the Clop ransomware group is exploiting a zero-day in IT support tool SysAid in “limited” attacks to access corporate servers and deploy Clop
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Apple agrees to pay $25M to settle the US DOJ's claims that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over citizens and green card holders for some jobs
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