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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple blocking Beeper Mini, not a service unto itself but an unauthorized client for a proprietary platform that costs a lot to run, is not anticompetitive — There's a lot to catch up on since last I wrote about Beeper. Long story short, they've been playing — and no surprise, losing — the cat-and-mouse game with Apple.
More: The Verge and mjtsai.com
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| NBC News: |
Sources: US intelligence determined that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the US in January and February 2023 used a US ISP to communicate with China — An American intelligence assessment found that the balloon used a commercially available U.S. network to communicate, primarily for navigation, U.S. officials say.
More: Boing Boing and The Messenger
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Microsoft Copilot on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, a free ChatGPT-like app that supports GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 — Just days after introducing a Copilot app on Android, Microsoft has rolled out an app for its AI chatbot on iOS and iPadOS.
More: App Store, AppleInsider, and Windows Latest
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches GPT-4-powered Copilot Chat in general availability for all users, in the sidebar of Microsoft's IDEs, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio — Earlier this year, GitHub rolled out Copilot Chat, a ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, for organizations subscribed to Copilot for Business.
More: The GitHub Blog, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, Voicebot.ai, Neowin, and The Verge
| CNBC: |
After a 33% plunge in 2022, the Nasdaq finished 2023 up 43%, its best year since 2020, led by Nvidia, which soared 239%, and Meta, which jumped almost 200% — - The Nasdaq climbed 43% in 2023, one of its best performances in two decades. — Similar to the rallies in 2009 and 2003 …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple was up ~50% in 2023 but underperformed its tech peers after Apple suffered four straight quarters of declining revenue, its longest such slide since 2001 — - In 2023, Apple suffered its longest revenue slide in 22 years, reporting four straight quarters of declining sales.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: hackers are abusing Google OAuth endpoint “MultiLogin” to restore expired authentication cookies and log into accounts even after a password reset — Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named “MultiLogin” …
More: CloudSEK | Blog, 9to5Google, Hackread, DataBreachToday.com, and Cybernews.com
| Usama Jawad / XDA Developers: |
Microsoft disables Windows App Installer's ms-appinstaller after the URI scheme was used to spread malware; Microsoft disabled and re-enabled the scheme in 2022 — Microsoft has disabled the ms-appinstaller URI scheme handler by default in the latest version of App Installer due to a rise in cyberattacks.| Benjamin Weiser / New York Times: |
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen says he mistakenly used bogus legal citations from Google Bard in a motion seeking an early end to court supervision — Donald Trump's former fixer had sought an early end to court supervision after his 2018 campaign finance conviction.
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| Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
Sources: for months, OpenAI has held talks with major news publishers including Gannett, News Corp, and IAC about the price and terms of licensing their content — Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.
More: Seeking Alpha, iPhone in Canada Blog, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, and Techdirt
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| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users — A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke …
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LinkedIn: Frith Tweedie and Jon Lam
| The Information: |
Sources: BuzzFeed is close to selling most of Complex Networks to livestream shopping startup Ntwrk for a little above $100M, far below Jonah Peretti's target — After months of discussions, BuzzFeed is close to an agreement to sell most of its Complex Networks business to Ntwrk … | Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: |
Sources: India's decision to seek the blocking of the URLs of nine foreign crypto exchanges followed a request from the Indian crypto and Web3 advocacy body — Bharat Web3 Association's (BWA) Chairman wrote the letter to the Indian government on Dec. 16. — Unmute — Register Now
More: Bitcoin Insider
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