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| 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: r/privacy and r/technology
| 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| 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, Push Square, 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
| 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| 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: Forbes, KitGuru, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamingBolt, GameRevolution, GamesIndustry.biz, Gamereactor UK, Pure Xbox, and Destructoid
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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
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook: approximately 3,200 private venture-backed US companies, 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: @carnage4life@mas.to and @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bitzlato co-founder Anatoly Legkodymov pleads guilty in the US to running a money transmitting business for illicit funds and plans to close the crypto exchange — Anatoly Legkodymov says he'll dissolve the sanctioned exchange as part of his plea. — Register Now
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Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @brett@infosec.exchange. X: @silvermanjacob, @baddcompani, and @ednynews
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers detail AutoSpill, a flaw on Android that can expose users' saved credentials from 1Password, LastPass, 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: TechRadar, TechSpot, and Dark Reading
Mastodon: @WPalant@infosec.exchange and @carlypage@mastodon.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, CoinDesk, Blockworks, BetaKit, TechCrunch, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and Bloomberg
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells users that the service 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, Payments Dive, The Information, and PYMNTS.com
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users say Google's Gemini Pro is loathe to comment on some controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with basic coding functions — This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
More: Bloomberg, Financial Times, Wired, Hackster.io, Trak.in, KnowTechie, Engadget, WinBuzzer, Business Today, and The Verge
| 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: Game Developer, Gizmodo, The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, Kotaku, IGN, Dot Esports, Gameranx, and Nintendo World Report Updates
X: @genki_jpn and @joemerrick
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, and OpenAI say they plan to use AMD's new Instinct MI300X GPU; Microsoft plans to offer access to the chips through Azure — - Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft said they will use AMD's newest AI chip, the Instinct MI300X — a sign that tech companies want alternatives …
More: Silicon Valley Business …, ExtremeTech, Analytics India Magazine, Financial Times, Proactiveinvestors NA, Invezz, and Benzinga
X: @amd, @joshuaogundu, @futurebec, and @patrickmoorhead
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
More: AMD, HotHardware, DatacenterDynamics, SemiAnalysis, Network World, ExtremeTech, The Decoder, AnandTech, Tom's Guide, 24/7 Wall St., MSPoweruser, Reuters, Neowin, and Bloomberg
X: @benbajarin, @iancutress, @ryanshrout, @benbajarin, @lisasu, @michaeldell, @patrickmoorhead, @amd, @tomwarren, @ctoadvisor, @ryanshrout, @aschilling, @edludlow, @aschilling, and @danielnewmanuv. LinkedIn: Robert Hormuth
Forums: r/technology and r/hardware
| Mat Honan / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on Gemini, the leading AI benchmarks, hallucinations, making AI helpful for all, the legal AI landscape, the future of search, and more — In an in-depth interview, Pichai predicts: “This will be one of the biggest things we all grapple with for the next decade.”
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Threads: @johnbattelle and @mathonan. Mastodon: @NeadReport@social.vivaldi.net. X: @pranavdixit. Forums: r/technology
| 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: CyberScoop, Microsoft On the Issues, Wired UK, and New York Times
| 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.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
A review of Amazon's $315 Echo Frames Carrera Cruiser: more stylish and better battery life, but pricey, bass isn't great, audio leaks, and Alexa isn't the best — I felt like a Kardashian reject roaming the streets of New York City, but hey, Alexa could tell me the weather.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development through the release of tools and evaluations to build 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.| 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| Reuters: |
Earnest: Chinese e-commerce platform Temu had nearly 17% of US discount store market share in November, compared to Dollar General's 43% and Dollar Tree's 28% — Temu, the fast-growing Chinese e-commerce platform selling $4 home decor and $10 shirts, is successfully taking …
More: Barron's Online and Bloomberg
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