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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Users say X is increasingly showing malicious crypto ads, including links to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and Telegram channels promoting pump and dumps — Cybercriminals are abusing X advertisements to promote websites that lead to crypto drainers, fake airdrops, and other scams.
More: Ars Technica and Cryptonews
| Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se: |
Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy — I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory. Now I can't hold back anymore.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adam Mosseri says Threads had some issues with “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks and should get “much better over the next few weeks” — Adam Mosseri says that Threads has had some issues with what he calls “low quality recommendations” over the last few weeks.
Threads: @mosseri, @tomwarrenuk, @scottbeale, @corndog_apologetics, @admartinezjr, @mmcfly566, @lozrex, @morganross524, @parkermolloy, @antookane, @edzitron, @craiggrannell, @mmasnick, @heilrath, @oneunderscore__, @honestly.wilde, and @john.lee.insta
Mastodon: @glinden@sigmoid.social, @robstahlnecker@mastodon …, and @shoq@mastodon.social. Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social
| Financial Times: |
The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible — London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services| Washington Post: |
Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft — A lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of violating the New York Times's copyright. But the law is anything but clear.
More: The Decoder, Business Today, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, International Business Times, Technollama, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @carnage4life and @willoremus
Mastodon: @MattHodges@mastodon.social and @willoremus@mastodon.social
X: @washingtonpost, @newsalliance, and @willoremus
| New York Times: |
Sources: the US DOJ may file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple that targets the company's strategies to protect the dominance of the iPhone as soon as H1 2024 — Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used …
More: HEY, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Wccftech, Ghacks, Supercharged, PhoneArena, The Information, Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconANGLE, The Messenger, The Verge, New York Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, CNBC, iClarified, and Pixel Envy
Threads: @lemayzing42, @lemayzing42, @lemayzing42, @nick_poitier, @d.13.go, @danhon, @thebrianpenny, @crankyelephant, @crankyelephant, @joshwolf, @dariusz.dziuk, @joshwolf, @joshwolf, @thebrianpenny, @mhlakhani, @sincera.7, @katienotopoulos, @samstrongtalks, @parkert, @mstahl302, @joshwolf, @darkzuckerberg, @mstahl302, @mstahl302, @joshwolf, and @alexjamesfitz
X: @jason_kint, @adamkovac, @maxwinebach, @adamkovac, @appstore, @patrickmoorhead, @maxwinebach, @dhh, @adamkovac, @a1mish, @senwarren, @garrytan, @lutherlowe, @dmccabe, @econliberties, @tech_oversight, @modestproposal1, @carnage4life, @jason, @dhh, and @jason_kint
Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development's pace will keep accelerating, and more — The “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI” shows that the scientific community has no consensus on the risks and opportunities of AI …
More: New Scientist, FOX 32 Chicago, Daily Mail, AI Impacts blog, New York Post, and Cryptopolitan
X: @stefanfschubert, @aiimpacts, @_eyesoftruth_, @garymarcus, @primalpoly, @pentagoniac, @thezvi, @natesilver538, @mhdempsey, @mhdempsey, @robinhanson, @thezvi, @arthurconmy, @lxrjl, @gil2rok, @robinhanson, @stuhlmueller, @ben_j_todd, @ristouuk, @mrgunn, @natesilver538, @nathanpmyoung, @anderssandberg, @ednewtonrex, @flixrisk, and @garrisonlovely
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Data from the Department of Labor shows the US IT sector grew by only 700 jobs over 2023, down from 267,000 jobs added in 2022, despite the AI boom — Despite business and investor hype around generative AI last year, information-technology hiring slumped as companies laid off workers and sought to cut costs
More: Computerworld and Cryptopolitan
| Lim Hui Jie / CNBC: |
Alibaba-backed Chinese lidar maker RoboSense raised $126.14M in its Hong Kong IPO, with the stock falling 2% on its debut — - Robosense, a Chinese developer of laser imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors for self-driving cars, announced January that it had raised HK$985.12 million … | Kotaro Hosokawa / Nikkei Asia: |
SK Hynix was second behind Samsung Electronics in the Korea Exchange's market cap ranking at the end of 2023, with its market cap rising 89% to ~$78B in 2023 — Battery-related company valuations fall as EV sales lag expectations — SK Hynix produced the biggest jump in market cap among … | Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
China's newly created National Data Administration unveils a three-year action plan to boost the country's economy by growing its data sector by 20% every year — China's newly established data administration, an agency created by Beijing to make data an effective production factor … | The Verge: |
What to expect at CES 2024: laptops with Intel's new Core Ultra chips, TVs with AI processing, AI-powered smart home devices and appliances, and more — No single event of the year delivers more tech news than CES. The annual trade show is the starting point for each year in tech …
More: Engadget, Neowin, ZDNet, VentureBeat, LifeHacker, Ad Age, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Investor's Business Daily, Cybernews, Barron's Online, TechCrunch, Reuters, T3, PCMag, and Nikkei Asia. X: @deantak
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