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| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Apple was prevented by the “federal government” from sharing details on governments' push notifications spying, and will now share info after Ron Wyden's letter — Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday.
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| Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat: |
Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024, saying the country was “prohibitively expensive” to operate in despite working to reduce costs — Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft plans to offer three additional years of monthly Windows 10 security updates, paid for annually, after the OS' end-of-support date on October 14, 2025 — Windows 10 gets a version of the program that extended updates for Windows 7. — Windows 10's end-of-support date is October 14, 2025.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU leans toward excluding iMessage from DMA rules due to not being popular enough among business users, part of an investigation ending in February — - EU tentatively finds it doesn't warrant being covered by DMA — New antitrust law imposes raft of Big Tech dos and don'ts
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Verge, and Supercharged. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security: |
The internet enabled mass surveillance, and AI will enable mass spying, once limited by human labor, by making troves of data searchable and understandable — Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide …
More: Pixel Envy, The Korea Herald, and Ars Technica
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/InfoSecNews
| Reuters: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has been “working very closely with the US government” to create products that comply with US curbs on high-end chip exports to China — SINGAPORE, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) will continue to develop a new set of products that comply … | Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Coinbase updates Wallet, available in 170+ countries, to let users send crypto on platforms where they can share a link, including email, social, and messaging — Recipients need to download a Coinbase Wallet to receive the funds, but the crypto exchange says they've simplified the process for less tech-savvy users.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to cut seller fees on clothing items under $15 to 5% in January 2024 and $15 to $20 items to 10%, down from 17%, in a bid to compete with Shein — Amazon.com Inc. is sharply cutting fees for merchants selling clothing priced below $20, a sign it's hunkering down for a price war with Chinese fast-fashion upstart Shein.
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to add its “Help me write” AI tool to Chrome, appearing in autofill popups when typing text, expanding on Google Messages, Gmail, Docs, and Keep — Over the past few months, Google has been steadily introducing AI tools to its many apps and services.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple tells component suppliers of its preference to source iPhone 16 batteries from Indian factories, as part of plans to diversify from China — Tech giant wants suppliers to build key component in India as part of broader effort to diversify supply chain
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| Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel publishes and then removes “Core Truths”, which directly criticizes AMD's “snake oil” for using its older Zen 2 architecture in new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs — Look in the mirror Intel — Intel recently published a new playbook titled “Core Truths” …
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| Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: ByteDance offers to buy back up to $5B of shares from existing investors at $160 per share, putting the company's valuation at $268B, down 11% on 2022 — Beijing-based ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is offering to buy back up to US$5 billion worth of shares from existing investors …
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Elon Musk's xAI files with the US SEC to raise up to $1B in an equity offering, saying the startup has raised nearly $135M from four investors since November 29 — - X.AI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, has filed with the SEC to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Copilot with DALL-E 3 and says GPT-4 Turbo support and a Code Interpreter feature are coming soon; Bing will get a “Deep Search” feature — Microsoft is detailing a number of new features coming to its Copilot service soon, including OpenAI's latest models.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
SAG-AFTRA members ratify the union's new three-year contract with studios after 78% voted in favor; some members remain unhappy about the deal's AI protections — The SAG-AFTRA vote formally ends six months of labor strife, though some members were not happy about the contract's artificial intelligence protections.
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| TIME: |
Interviews with Sam Altman and 20 people in his circle reveal a complicated portrait of being brilliant but slippery, as Time names him CEO of the Year 2023 — Sam Altman photographed in San Francisco, Calif. on Nov. 8Photograph by Joe Pugliese for TIME … Normally, the CEO of OpenAI flies home to St. Louis to visit family.| Financial Times: |
Binance CEO Richard Teng refuses to disclose the location of the company's global headquarters, maintaining a stance taken by former CEO Changpeng Zhao — Richard Teng maintains stance on that information held before crypto exchange pleaded guilty to US charges last month
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Beeper debuts Beeper Mini for Android, which lets users send iMessages using E2EE, without having to use a new number or log in with an Apple ID, for $2/month — Earlier this year, a developer slid into Eric Migicovsky's DMs with a spectacular claim: that he had reverse engineered Apple's iMessage …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Source: VC firm OpenView laid off most of its staff and does not plan to make new investments, after several partners recently left the firm — OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm that has backed enterprise software firms such as Calendly and Expensify …
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
San Diego-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple plans to shutter its US business, laying off 150, or 75% of its US staff, and move its business to China — Self-driving trucking company will continue to operate out of China — Self-driving trucking company TuSimple Holdings … | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Alibaba's paper on its Animate Anyone AI model goes viral after videos show the model can replace TikTok influencers after being trained on their videos — A team of researchers from Chinese retail and technology giant Alibaba released a paper this week detailing a new model, which they call “Animate Anyone.”
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
ESET researchers have found 18 “SpyLoan” malicious loan Android apps, which have been downloaded 12M+ times from the Google Play store alone, in 2023 so far — More than a dozen malicious loan apps, which are generically named SpyLoan, have been downloaded more than 12 million times …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
UK carrier EE launches broadband TV platform EE TV, to replace the BT TV service, partnering with Apple to offer an Apple TV 4K with a customized remote control — EE TV, a new broadband TV platform from EE, today launched as a BT TV replacement service in the UK, offering subscribers …
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