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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Users say Google's Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks — This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
More: Bloomberg, iThinkDifferent, HotHardware, Financial Times, Engadget, KnowTechie, Wired, Bloomberg, Trak.in, EnterpriseAI, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, MediaNama, Business Today, and The Verge
Threads: @lucaspuskaric. X: @parmy, @tomgara, @firstadopter, @vitor_dlucca, @minchoi, @charlesarthur, @mohsen____, @svpino, @techcharts, @nkirankumars1, @buzzedison, @benjaminnetter, @tunguz, @ztobi, @filippie509, @ajones55555, @filippie509, @modestproposal1, @buzzedison, @tunguz, and @vitor_dlucca. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 …
More: US Department of Justice, Microsoft Security Blog, GOV.UK, U.S. Department …, The Record, TechCrunch, The Guardian, CyberScoop, BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, National Cyber Security Centre, WHDH 7News, SiliconANGLE, NBC News, Telecoms Tech News, Baseline, DeviceSecurity.io, Financial Times, Daily Mail, The i Paper, Bloomberg, Politico, New York Times, The Messenger, ComputerWeekly.com, Forbes, and Infosecurity
X: @msftsecintel, @gordoncorera, @imincorrigible, @danwblack, @dmitryopines, @jimmysecuk, @sixdub, @eliothiggins, @mike_eckel, and @gordoncorera. LinkedIn: Jeremy Dallman
| 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 …
More: Meta, The Guardian, Engineering at Meta, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BleepingComputer, The Information, The Guardian, Axios, Wired, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Ars Technica, MacRumors, National Crime Agency, BBC, SiliconANGLE, iLounge, Android Headlines, iMore, Forbes, Gizchina, Wccftech, Phandroid, 9to5Google, Lifewire, PCMag, RestorePrivacy, The Messenger, New York Times, The Register, The Internet Watch Foundation, Cybernews.com, Droid Life, PhoneArena, Engadget, MarketWatch, Android Central, Social Media Today, BetaNews, and Reuters
X: @openrightsgroup, @gazthejourno, @jonmillican, @_andyburrows, @richccollard, @joshthomas_iwf, @loredanacrisan, @lukolejnik, @mollyroseorg, @suojellaanlapsi, @nca_uk, @matthew_d_green, @eff, @mlsutherland25, @jonmillican, @profwoodward, @iwfhotline, @messenger, @justinhendrix, @matthew_d_green, @matthew_d_green, and @matthew_d_green. LinkedIn: Damiano Sasso. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, and r/technology
| 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 … | 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: DataBreachToday.com, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, and TechCircle
| 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, 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
| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences Gene Levoff, the ex-Apple lawyer who pled guilty to insider trading from 2011 to 2016, to four years of probation; Apple fired him in 2018 — - Gene Levoff was sentenced to four years of probation Thursday — Judge said the Stanford Law graduate already lost his career| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla's Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla in November; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo — Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … | 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 …
More: 404 Media and Techdirt
Mastodon: @adamhotep@infosec.exchange. X: @tomhegel, @kylebrussell, @oneunderscore__, @byrontau, @ajvicens, @malwarejake, @shanehuntley, and @kimzetter
| 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
More: Robinhood Newsroom, Decrypt, CryptoPotato, TechCrunch, The Dark Side, CCN.com, Finbold, Cryptopolitan, Blockonomi, CNBC, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Crowdfund Insider, Coinpedia Fintech News, Fortune, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, Cryptonews, Watcher Guru, CryptoGlobe, and Reuters
X: @emilyjnicolle, @johannkerbrat, @robinhoodcrypto, and @robinhoodcrypto. LinkedIn: Dougal Weir. Forums: Hacker News
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook estimates that at least ~3,200 private venture-backed US startups, 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: @mimsical@mastodon.social, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @dhh, @milkman__dead, @workmj, @bernardleong, @bigblackjacobin, and @bedwardstiek
LinkedIn: Annu Nieminen, Amy Siskind, and Gus Bessalel
| 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: Microsoft On the Issues, SiliconANGLE, The Record, NBC News, CyberScoop, Wired, and New York Times
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Researchers detail AutoSpill, a flaw in Android that can expose users' saved credentials from 1Password, LastPass, Keeper, 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: MobileSyrup, Tech.co, TechRadar, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Dark Reading
| Wall Street Journal: |
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the “goal in firing Sam [Altman] was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to say why she and others voted to fire him — In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI's power struggle
More: Fortune, Los Angeles Times, The Decoder, The Verge, and TIME
X: @jessefelder, @meghanbobrowsky, @kyliebytes, @alexeheath, @garymarcus, @kchristidis_, and @dseetharaman. Forums: Hacker News
| Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: |
X rolls out xAI's snarky, anti-woke chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users; X CEO Linda Yaccarino describes Grok as “the ultimate ride or die” — Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday. — Elon Musk's snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok …
Bluesky: @alexandraerin.com and @andimann.bsky.social
X: @zeffmax, @elonmusk, @scobleizer, @greg16676935420, @lindayax, and @elonmusk
| 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, Benzinga, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Blockworks, crypto.news, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and Cointelegraph
| 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
More: Android Authority, Wired, MacRumors, Ars Technica, United States Senate, TechCrunch, 404 Media, Malwarebytes, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, Tom's Guide, WRAL TechWire, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, Schneier on Security, Bloomberg, Daring Fireball, CNBC, iMore, and Reuters
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out tags on Threads, offering support for multiple words and spaces, and no # symbol; posts can only have one tag and the tag view is the search view — Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday.
More: 9to5Google, Engadget, Neowin, BGR, and Social Media Today
Threads: @mosseri, @titanjibk, @erika_lucas07, @mosseri, @datadrivenmd, @emmyloop, and @hawaii. Bluesky: @adnan.social
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tests a $9.99/month grocery subscription service for Prime members, offering unlimited Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh grocery delivery on orders over $35 — - Amazon is betting members of its Prime program will want to pay a separate monthly fee for unlimited grocery delivery on some orders.| 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.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based ContactMonkey, which offers an internal communications tool that integrates with Outlook, Gmail, and more, raised a $55M Series A led by Updata — Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is. — Today, ContactMonkey …
More: BetaKit and ContactMonkey
| 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, Video Games Chronicle, IGN, Game Developer, Game Rant, Gizmodo, Polygon, Dot Esports, Kotaku, Gameranx, and GamesIndustry.biz
X: @genki_jpn and @joemerrick
| 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: TweakTown, GamingBolt, Forbes, GameRevolution, GamesIndustry.biz, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, KitGuru, Gamereactor UK, and Pure Xbox
X: @jpdeathblade, @demonjoetv, @ethangach, @kyleblessing, @ggpedroperes, @mynameisbyf, @duckvalentine, @daveoshry, @tomwarren, @jasonschreier, and @destinlegarie. LinkedIn: Richard King
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
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells customers that the company 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, Finextra, Bloomberg, The Verge, Engadget, Payments Dive, PYMNTS.com, and The Information
| 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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development by offering tools and evaluations for safely building 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, Meta, PYMNTS.com, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, Axios, and insideBIGDATA
Threads: @chriscox. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @cotdp, @sourab_m, @tangrikunal, @stevejarrett, @sam_witteveen, @soumithchintala, @_philschmid, @simonw, @moyix, @scale_ai, @aiatmeta, @nickclegg, and @metanewsroom
LinkedIn: Sayeed Choudhury, Steve Jarrett, and Kunal Tangri
| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
TikTok unveils a task force to tackle hate speech and plans to open up its research API to civil society groups, after complaints over Israel-Hamas videos — TikTok is preparing a slew of initiatives to defuse growing complaints that antisemitism and other hate speech has proliferated in videos about the Hamas-Israel war.Sponsor Posts
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