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December 26, 2023, 7:30 AM

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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
GTA V source code appears to have been leaked on Discord, Telegram, a dark web site, and others, a little over a year after hackers breached Rockstar  —  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 an $80B rout last week  —  - Beijing approves games, seeks feedback on new restrictions  — Tencent and NetEase shares plunged on Friday on crackdown fear
Bloomberg:
Samsung delays chip production in its $17B Texas fab, saying the company could not confirm its production schedule, a blow to the US' local chip ambitions  —  - TSMC has also postponed production at Arizona fab to 2025  — US chip ambition is plagued by permit and subsidy issues
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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
After vocal commitments following George Floyd's murder in 2020, DEI programs at Big Tech companies, including Meta and Google, were 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.
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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Amanda Hoover / Wired:
Experts detail how Facebook Marketplace users are getting scammed; Meta plans to add a notification system to let users identify “scams around payment apps”  —  I tried to sell a futon on Facebook Marketplace and nearly all I got were scammers.  —  This year, I decided to get rid …

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