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A UK judge sentences Arion Kurtaj, the 18-year-old who leaked GTA VI code and hacked Nvidia, to a secure hospital until a mental health tribunal lets him leave — - Arion Kurtaj placed in hospital to protect public from harm — Two teens sentenced for hacking, blackmailing tech firms
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft plans to deprecate Windows Mixed Reality and remove the feature in a future Windows update; most Windows VR headsets launched between 2017 and 2021 — Windows Mixed Reality will be removed from a future version of Windows — What you need to know
More: The Verge, PCWorld, PCMag, Engadget, Reuters, Thurrott, ExtremeTech, Try Hard Guides, Liliputing, UploadVR, Ghacks, Neowin, XDA Developers, and Microsoft Learn
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Apple AI researchers publish papers on using human gaussian splats to generate animated 3D avatars from videos and deploying LLMs on devices with limited memory — Apple, a company practically synonymous with technological innovation, has once again positioned itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.
More: MacRumors, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, Apple Machine Learning …, The Verge, MacDailyNews, Tom's Guide, arXiv.org, BGR, 9to5Mac, MarkTechPost, Benzinga, 80 Level, AppleInsider, and Tom's Guide
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Worldcoin developer Tools for Humanity stops offering its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil, and France, months after a “limited time access” expansion — Worldcoin is no longer offering its Orb-verification service in India, Brazil and France, just months …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Evan Blass leaks an apparent countdown to Galaxy Unpacked on January 17, which says “Galaxy AI is coming”, and a Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra spec sheet — If rumors are to be believed, we're less than a month away from the launch of Samsung's latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S24 range.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cisco acquires cloud-native security and networking startup Isovalent, which had raised $69M and has helped develop open-source projects eBPF and Cilium — Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit …
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| Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: |
Privacy campaigners say the UK quietly introduced legislation to let police run facial recognition searches on 50M+ driving license holders without oversight — Exclusive: Privacy campaigners say clause in new criminal justice bill will put all UK drivers on ‘permanent police lineup’
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
France's AMF watchdog gives Coinbase a virtual asset service provider approval, as the company pushes deeper in Europe amid its regulations rift with the US SEC — - France's AMF watchdog gave Coinbase virtual asset service provider (VASP) approval, which is effectively a green light …
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| Lauren Leffer / Scientific American: |
In five experiments, encouraging people to use search engines to evaluate the veracity of fake news posts increased the likelihood of them being rated as true — Data voids in search results can lead down rabbit holes that bolster belief in fake news — Politics| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
A US appeals court finalizes a mandate for the forfeiture of 69,370 BTC and other crypto connected to Silk Road, handed over by Silk Road hacker “Individual X” — - Judgment was first made in August but will now take effect, according to a filing in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
How Meta's hyperscale data center in Odense, Denmark, opened in 2020, helps heat ~11K homes, as Microsoft, Amazon, and others plan to repurpose data center heat — Big Tech data centers are not only being used to power the internet but also to heat people's homes.
More: DatacenterDynamics and Business Insider
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is ramping up Vision Pro production, aiming for customer-bound units to be ready by the end of January and a retail debut planned for February — - Overseas manufacturing of the headset is running at full speed — Vision Pro debut will vault Apple into new product category
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| Moneycontrol: |
Email: Meta's India policy head, Shivnath Thukral, says the government could choose to apply its proposed telecom law to Meta's OTT services at a “future date” — Meta's India policy head Shivnath Thukral writes in an internal email, 'Govt could have sufficient discretion …
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Threads: @aparatbar, @quillsandpills, @thesouthfirst, and @scroll_in
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