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December 25, 2023, 4:25 PM
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
GTA V source code appears to have been leaked on Discord, Telegram, a dark web site, and more, a little over a year after Rockstar was hacked  —  The source code for Grand Theft Auto 5 was reportedly leaked on Christmas Eve, a little over a year after the Lapsus$ threat actors hacked Rockstar games and stole corporate data.
Omar Sohail / Wccftech:
Kuo: Apple Vision Pro shipments in 2024 are estimated to be approximately 500,000 units; the headset will most likely ship in late January or early February  —  An earlier Apple Vision Pro launch timeline stated that the mixed-reality headset's shipments would start in February next year …
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
China approves 105 local games, including titles from Tencent and NetEase, after the announcement of a new set of restrictions led to a $80B rout last week  —  - Beijing approves games, seeks feedback on new restrictions  — Tencent and NetEase shares plunged on Friday on crackdown fear
Jeremy White / New York Times:
Researchers extract business and personal email addresses for 30+ NYT staff by fine tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo, bypassing the safeguards for privacy-related queries  —  This is a visualization of a large email database from the Enron Corporation, which is often used to train artificial intelligence systems, like ChatGPT.
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Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
Researchers from Apple and Columbia University released Ferret, an open source multimodal LLM that can recognize and describe any shape in an image, in October  —  With little fanfare, researchers from Apple and Columbia University released an open source multimodal LLM, called Ferret, in October 2023.
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
After vocal commitments following George Floyd's murder in 2020, DEI programs at Big Tech companies, including Meta and Google, are in broad retreat in 2023  —  - After vocal commitments following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, DEI programs in the tech industry are in broad retreat.
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Sam Altman's history at Loopt and Y Combinator, where his side activities and personal projects riled colleagues and forced his departure from YC  —  The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he's rebounded to greater heights
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers: an updated Chameleon trojan uses an HTML page trick to disrupt biometrics on Android like Face Unlock to steal PINs and unlock the device at will  —  The Chameleon Android banking trojan has re-emerged with a new version that uses a tricky technique to take over devices …
Bloomberg:
A look at TikTok Shop, as big companies shun the e-commerce app, which has a clunky interface and is full of dubious merchandise, like a $50 plastic fork  —  At best, the social platform's e-commerce arm is full of random impulse buys and silly trinkets.  At worst, it's a breeding ground for bad actors and shady products.

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Financial Times:
Sources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

More News

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
A look at Take-Two's $12B Zynga deal in 2022, just as casual games peaked post pandemic, Apple introduced ATT, and the mobile game market headed into a downturn
Ethan Zuckerman:
A study estimates that there are 13.3B+ videos on YouTube, of which 4B+ were posted to the platform in 2023, and the median YouTube video has 39 views
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Elon Musk is fielding complaints about Grok giving liberal responses on diversity, transgender rights, and inequality, despite promising an “anti-woke” chatbot

Earlier Picks

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
GM pauses Chevy Blazer EV sales as it works to fix software problems, including the infotainment screen going blank, which affect a “limited number” of vehicles
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Ubisoft is investigating reports of a new security breach after security research collective VX-Underground shared screenshots of the company's internal tools
Edd Gent / IEEE Spectrum:
Experts warn against unrealistic expectations for quantum computers, citing the challenges in making fault-tolerant systems, qubits' slow operating speeds, more
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