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| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped 2023, adding a Me in 2023 feature that assigns users one of 12 themes to describe their listening habits, on mobile and desktop — The listening recap, available Wednesday, takes over social media every year — It's the time of year many people have been anxiously awaiting: Spotify Wrapped season.
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| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
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Forums: r/entertainment and r/TaylorSwift
| Mike Seymour / fxguide: |
Unity plans to cut 265 jobs, or 3.8% of its workforce, and end its services deal with VFX company Wētā FX to focus on its core business in a “company reset” — UPDATE: Scroll down for a statement from WētāFX: — Reuters is reporting that Unity Software …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group, and the US, the Netherlands, and Poland seize the service — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases an emergency security update to fix Chrome's sixth zero-day in 2023, related to the Skia open-source 2D graphics library and found by Google TAG — Google has fixed the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability this year in an emergency security update released today to counter ongoing exploitation in attacks.
More: Google Chrome Releases, Club386, The Hacker News, PCMag, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Stack Diary, SecurityWeek, Forbes, and MSPoweruser
| Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: |
Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times — Large language models, like ChatGPT, are trained on vast amounts of text data from books, websites, and other sources.
More: 404 Media, not-just-memorization …, arXiv.org, Engadget, VICE, and Cryptopolitan
| Variety: |
Robert De Niro criticizes Apple and the Gotham Awards, after sources say Apple cut part of his speech slamming Donald Trump, which he read anyway from his phone — The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor was gearing up to slam Donald Trump at Monday's Gotham Awards, but when he took the stage …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix plans to add Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy to its mobile app, the App Store, and Google Play on December 14, available to its users at no extra charge — The three classic titles in “Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition" will be available Dec. 14 for Netflix customers …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple licenses Arm's IP at less than 30 cents per device, the lowest rate among Arm's smartphone chip clients; Apple makes up under 5% of Arm's sales — In 2017, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son gathered a group of executives from Arm Holdings, the British chip designer SoftBank had just bought …
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| Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind uses GNoME to find 2.2M crystal structures, over 45x more than all such substances ever found, and plans to make 381K available to scientists — Work shows power of AI to improve real-world technology in fields from renewable energy to advanced computation| Graham Starr / Bloomberg: |
Okta tells customers that hackers who breached its network stole information on all users of its customer support system, greater than the 1% claimed previously — - Okta had earlier said breach affected about 1% of customers — Company said some Okta employee information was also stolen
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Wormhole, a Jump Crypto messaging protocol that lets developers communicate across blockchains, raised $225M at a $2.5B valuation, 2023's largest crypto raise — In a parched fundraising landscape, the team behind Wormhole, the messaging protocol that lets developers communicate across different blockchains … | CBC News: |
Google and Canada reach an agreement in their dispute over the country's Online News Act; Google plans to pay news companies around CA$100M per year, or ~$74M — Agreement comes 3 weeks before Online News Act rules come into force — Google and the federal government have reached …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Mozilla says Firefox extensions compatible with Android will be “openly available” to users on December 14, with over 400 coming at launch — Mozilla is opening the floodgates on extensions for Firefox on Android, with hundreds of new add-ons arriving in December.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011 — Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts Titan Image Generator, an AI model that creates images from text and adds an invisible watermark by default, in preview for AWS clients on Bedrock — Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so.| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Elliptic and Corvus Insurance: the “Black Basta” ransomware group, suspected of being a Conti offshoot, has extorted at least $107M in bitcoin since early 2022 — A cyber extortion gang suspected of being an offshoot of the notorious Russian Conti group of hackers has raked … | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Plex users express alarm after getting a “Week in Review” email that showed what they and their friends watched, part of Plex's opt-out Discover Together tool — “I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff,” a user said of Plex's Week …
More: TechHive and PC Gamer
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| Bloomberg: |
How deepfake porn victims in NYC suburb Levittown helped convict the perpetrator, a former classmate, an ordeal further complicated by the lack of clear US laws — A group of young women in a New York City suburb, horrified to learn their photographs had been manipulated and posted online, took matters into their own hands.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: London-based AI startup Stability AI held early-stage talks with several companies about a sale, as executives face investor pressure over its finances — - Move follows letter from investor Coatue calling for changes — Coatue concerned about Stability AI's financial position
More: Telegraph, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at Ayaneo's $199+ Retro Mini PC AM01, designed to look like a 1980s-era Macintosh, with Ryzen chip options, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage — Ayaneo, which is mostly known for making handheld gaming consoles, just fully revealed the new Retro Mini PC AM01 after teasing it a few weeks ago.
More: VideoCardz.com, XDA Developers, T3, TweakTown, and PC Gamer
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| Wall Street Journal: |
After the mass layoffs in late 2022 and early 2023, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta continue to make small employee cuts to keep tight control on costs — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are making strategic trims even as they rebound from the tech downturn
Forums: Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google Registry launches a .meme top level domain, adding to .dad, .boo, .ing, and its other unconventional domain names — If you ever wanted to make your website sound a little more silly, now's your chance. Google Registry just released a new top-level domain that lets you slap a big ol' .meme at the end of your website.| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung launches its Samsung Internet browser on Windows via the Microsoft Store, offering a similar design to Chrome and bringing the mobile browser to desktop — Samsung Internet has moved out of the mobile space and onto the desktop with a new version available through the Microsoft Store for Windows PCs.
More: Microsoft Store, SamMobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, WinBuzzer, and Thurrott
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Together AI, which helps pre-train and fine-tune open-source foundation models more efficiently, raised a $102.5M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins — I spoke with Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash — Together AI, a startup that's helping companies pre-train and fine-tune open source foundation models …
More: Together.ai, TechCrunch, TechStartups, and Kleiner Perkins
| Susan Heavey / Reuters: |
The Senate Judiciary Committee says the CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord plan to testify on online child sexual exploitation at a January 31 hearing — The chief executives of social media companies Meta (META.O), X, TikTok, Snap (SNAP.N) and Discord will testify …
More: The Messenger and United States Senate Committee …
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| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $734.2M, vs. $714M est., and projects Q4 product revenue of $716M to $721M, vs. $696M est.; SNOW jumps 6%+ — Snowflake's stock moves higher in the extended session — Snowflake Inc.'s stock was rocketing more than 8% higher in Wednesday's …
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| Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: |
Perplexity debuts two online LLMs that can access the internet to provide up-to-date responses, publicly accessible via Perplexity's API and Labs web interface — Perplexity's new PPLX models leverage the internet for real-time data. Find out how these new online LLMs compare to GPT-3.5 and Llama 2.Sponsor Posts
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