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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.
More: TechSpot, GTA Focal, Dexerto, Gadgets 360, SiliconANGLE, Insider Gaming, Game Rant, Destructoid, Dexerto, Blue's News, and DSOGaming
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X: @gtafocal, @gtafocal, @vxunderground, @vxunderground, @gtafocal, and @gtafocal
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: Ming-Chi Kuo, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Digital Trends, iMore, Patently Apple, PhoneArena, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Indian Express, BGR, iClarified, WRAL TechWire, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Huawei Central, Benzinga, and Gizmochina
Threads: @acochraniii, @acochraniii, @chrisneuman, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life
| 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
More: Associated Press, TweakTown, Investor's Business Daily, Game World Observer, Business Insider, South China Morning Post, TechNode, and Reuters
X: @sino_market, @jenspresthus, @sino_market, @noahpinion, and @briantycangco. LinkedIn: Rafael Brown
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google Chrome's Safety Check feature, which checks if users' saved passwords have been compromised, will now run automatically in the background on desktop — Google's Safety Check feature for Chrome, which, among other things, checks the internet to see if any of your saved passwords have been compromised …
More: The Keyword, BleepingComputer, Tabletmonkeys, Ghacks, Maccablo, Sammy Fans, SamMobile, Fox News, and XDA Developers
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
President Biden's administration declines to veto the US ITC's decision to ban Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 imports over a Masimo patent dispute — U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday declined to veto a government tribunal's decision to ban imports of Apple (AAPL.O) …
More: 9to5Mac, Supercharged, Sammy Fans, The Economic Times, and AppleInsider
| 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
More: Sammy Fans
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
The US is focusing on blocking North Korea's ability to launder its crypto stolen via cyberattacks, which the US thinks funds North Korea's weapons programs — The Biden administration is doing more to counter North Korean hackers amid concerns their cryptocurrency heists are powering the country's weapons programs.| 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.
More: NBC 7 San Diego, Black Enterprise, and The Messenger
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X: @__aarum and @abefroman
LinkedIn: Tara Turk-Haynes, Veronica Belmont, Jennifer Elias, and Pariss Chandler
| Nicole Kobie / Wired: |
A look at AI apps like Bluey-GPT, Oscar, Once Upon a Bot, and Bedtimestory.ai, which create stories for kids, and concerns over copyright, trademark, and safety — Artificial intelligence can now tell tales featuring your kids' favorite characters. It's copyright chaos—and a major headache for parents and guardians.
More: The Economic Times and Hindustan Times
| Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
Israel's government agrees to give Intel a $3.2B grant for a $25B chip plant the company plans to build in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel, set to open in 2027 — Israel's government agreed to give Intel Corp (INTC.O) a $3.2 billion grant for new $25 billion chip plant it plans to build in southern Israel, both sides said on Tuesday.
More: Metaverse Post, Bloomberg, and Globes Online
| 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.
More: Business Today. Threads: @carnage4life and @vishvanands. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. X: @cbarrett. Forums: Slashdot
| 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 …
More: Hindustan Times, CNET, and MUO
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