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Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019 — - Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team
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Sources: Elon Musk's xAI secured $500M in commitments out of $1B and is aiming for a $15B to $20B valuation; source: X investors are invited to invest in xAI — - Grok maker aims for valuation of at least $15 billion — Investors in X, formerly Twitter, getting priority in round
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17 — Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. — On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple opens pre-orders for the Vision Pro, which has an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage options — Apple today finally shared additional tech specs for its Vision Pro headset following the start of pre-orders in the United States.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
After two failed attempts, a bipartisan effort is being made to remedy the issues caused by US tax law Section 174, which forces amortization of software labor — The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 is impacting some startups' tax bills, thanks to a provision that changes how R&D costs are deducted.
X: @barketkhan and @abrams
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
BreachForums admin Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin”, is sentenced to 20 years of supervised release for his role in running the cybercrime forum — Conor Brian Fitzpatrick was sentenced to 20 years of supervised release today in the Eastern District of Virginia …
More: DataBreaches.net and CyberScoop
| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
Apple and Google reducing their app store fees by just 3-4% for external payment methods simply makes alternative options non-viable for app developers — The Supreme Court this week declined to hear Apple's appeal of an antitrust case that compels the company to allow app developers to link to external, web-based payment options.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at the Mac's evolution as it turns 40, and interviews with Alan Dye and other Apple executives about Mac's future, its influence on Vision Pro, and more — The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
How AI has been helping criminals who use deepfakes and voice cloning for financial scams, forcing banks and fintechs to invest in AI to counter fraud — Voice cloning is just one of the new tools in the tricksters' armoury — It was last spring when Paddric Fitzgerald received a telephone call at work.| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOJ and FTC are discussing which agency can investigate the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and which can probe companies for scraping web content — One of the most high-profile tech partnerships in years has drawn scrutiny from regulators, who currently can't pursue an investigation.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman has held talks to raise billions, including $8B to $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42, to set up a network of factories to manufacture chips — - Push reflects concern about potential semiconductor shortage — Project would involve working with major chipmaking companies
More: Financial Times, The Decoder, The Register, The Messenger, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, Tom's Hardware, The Information, The Information, iTnews, The Verge, New York Post, Wccftech, and Gizmochina
X: @stockmktnewz, @dinabass, @elonmusk, @firstadopter, @edludlow, @dinabass, and @silvermanjacob. LinkedIn: Dina Bass
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Stability AI releases Stable LM 2 1.6B, which the company says outperforms other small AI language models on most benchmarks, including Microsoft's Phi-2 — Size certainly matters when it comes to large language models (LLMs) as it impacts where a model can run.
More: Thurrott, Stability AI, and Hugging Face
X: @gblazex, @emostaque, @rikelhood, and @stabilityai
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