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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 guidelines now say that US law enforcement can obtain the Apple ID associated with a push notification token via 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
More: Ars Technica, Wired, TechCrunch, 404 Media, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, iTnews, MacRumors, The Register, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Bloomberg, WRAL TechWire, Schneier on Security, Axios, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, and iMore
X: @eshumarneeedi and @matthew_d_green
| 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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony's Discovery content removals due to licensing “arrangements” and unexpected account bans are timely reminders of why users don't really 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, 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
| Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Sources: Bungie's recent layoffs came alongside a scramble to avoid a total Sony takeover, which could 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, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamingBolt, GameRevolution, 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 …
More: Windows Central, Benzinga, TechCircle, SecurityWeek, Cyber Daily, and Dark Reading. LinkedIn: Charlie Bell
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Montenegro's Justice Minister 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 to send disgraced crypto tycoon … | Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The UK accuses a unit of Russia's FSB of using cyberattacks in a “sustained but unsuccessful” campaign to undermine 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
More: US Department of Justice, The Record, BankInfoSecurity.com, CryptoPotato, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Tech Xplore, The Verge, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, TechStartups, and CoinGape
Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @brett@infosec.exchange. X: @silvermanjacob, @baddcompani, and @ednynews
| 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 …
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
More: AMD, HotHardware, DatacenterDynamics, SemiAnalysis, Network World, ExtremeTech, The Decoder, AnandTech, Tom's Guide, MSPoweruser, 24/7 Wall St., Reuters, Neowin, and Bloomberg
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Forums: r/technology and r/hardware
| 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, Bloomberg, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
| 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
| 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, and New York Times
| 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.
More: Meta, Axios, Meta, and MSPoweruser
| 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.| 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.| 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: The Verge, Gizmodo, Video Games Chronicle, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, Kotaku, IGN, Dot Esports, Gameranx, and Nintendo World Report Updates
X: @genki_jpn and @joemerrick
| 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
| 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| 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: Business Today, Bloomberg, Wired, Trak.in, KnowTechie, Engadget, Windows Report, WinBuzzer, and The Verge
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google posts instructions for restoring files in Google Drive for desktop, after users reported last week that some of their files disappeared from the service — Google has a solution for the sync issue that caused files to disappear for some users on Drive for desktop.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Steve Hotelling, the Apple VP overseeing technologies like touchscreen, health sensors, and Face ID, and one of the inventors of Touch ID, is retiring — - Steve Hotelling oversaw many key technologies at Apple — Executive was a top deputy under hardware boss Johny Srouji
More: MacRumors, PhoneArena, Android Headlines, Supercharged, MacDailyNews, iMore, Reuters, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Wall Street Journal: |
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board's “goal in firing Sam was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to offer specifics on why Altman was fired — In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI's power struggle
More: The Michigan Daily and TIME
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