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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a zero-click iMessage attack that for over four years used four zero-days to hack iPhones, including dozens belonging to Kaspersky employees — “Triangulation” infected dozens of iPhones belonging to employees of Moscow-based Kaspersky. — Researchers on Wednesday …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US appeals court pauses the ITC's Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 import ban over Masimo's patents, after the Biden administration declined to veto the ban — Apple (AAPL.O) scored a victory on Wednesday as a U.S. appeals court paused a government commission's import ban …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple resumed Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in some physical US stores on December 27; online sales are set to resume on December 28 by 3PM ET — You can once again buy the latest Apple Watches straight from Apple. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 will be available again …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
How Apple hiring Stanford PhD Marcelo Lamego, who was the CTO of Masimo spinoff Cercacor, in 2013 to add Watch features sparked a fight that led to the US ban — Apple's hiring of a key engineer 10 years ago helped spark a fight that led its watch to be banned from the US.| New York Times: |
The NYT sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging they used millions of its articles to train AI, the first major US media outlet to sue — Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
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| Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times: |
Seattle-based e-commerce website Zulily, valued at ~$7B in 2014, winds down its business; in a lawsuit, Zulily accused Amazon of stifling its business — Once an e-commerce star, online retailer Zulily will liquidate its inventory to pay its creditors as it winds down.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: India pressed Apple to come up with alternative explanations for warning Indian journalists and opposition politicians of state-sponsored iPhone hacks — NEW DELHI — A day after Apple warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians in October that government hackers …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers develop a protocol to secure AirTags against stalking while maintaining privacy, aiming to improve on Apple's system of rotating public identifiers — Apple updated its location-tracking system in an attempt to cut down on AirTag abuse while still preserving privacy.
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| Financial Times: |
Disney, WBD, Comcast, and Paramount face a year of reckoning in 2024 after losing $5B+ in 2023 from the streaming services they built to compete with Netflix — Tie-ups and cuts on menu as Disney, Warner, Comcast and Paramount seek new ways to keep up — The world's largest traditional … | Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi unveils its first EV, SU7, and says it wants to become a top global carmaker in 15 to 20 years; CEO Lei Jun calls it his final entrepreneurial bet — - Tech company's first electric car is joining a crowded market — SU7 made in partnership with state-owned Beijing Automotive| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korean national statistics data: chip production grew 42% YoY in November, the most since early 2017; shipments rose 80%, the biggest gain since late 2002 — - Semiconductor industry shows signs it's bouncing back fast — Korea's overall industrial output grows more than expected
More: South China Morning Post and DigiTimes
| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
GM claims in a lawsuit that SF unfairly taxed it $108M over seven years, using the presence of Cruise to tie its tax bill to a portion of GM's global revenue — - Company says city unfairly based tax calculations on Cruise — GM, Cruise operate as separate entities, automaker claims
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