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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
More: Microsoft Security …, Ars Technica, CNBC, PCMag, Thurrott, CNN, The Information, The Verge, Washington Post, Hackread, Engadget, Newser, TechCrunch, Associated Press, DataBreaches.net, Wall Street Journal, BleepingComputer, New York Times, NBC News, PC Gamer, CRN, Axios, Reuters, Fortune, CyberScoop, and GeekWire
Threads: @mnownews, @andy_jabbour, @barrebull, @georgescriban, and @alex.stamos
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| Bloomberg: |
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
More: Decrypt, CNBC, CoinGape, Cryptopolitan, and Reuters
Bluesky: @andrewkjennings.com. X: @danprimack, @tweettsp, @elonmusk, @kyliebytes, and @walterisaacson
| 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 …
More: elists.isoc.org, Vint Cerf on Google Docs, CircleID, Pixel Envy, On my Om, and LWN.net
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| 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.| 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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| 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: The Register, Financial Times, The Messenger, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptopolitan, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, The Verge, 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
| 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.| 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
| Canalys: |
Indian smartphone shipments in Q4 2023 grew 20% YoY to 38.9M units, after five quarters of declines; total shipments for 2023 declined 2% YoY to 148.6M units — The latest Canalys research shows Indian smartphone vendors capitalized on robust festival season demand and propelled Q4 shipments …
More: SamMobile, PhoneArena, GSMArena.com, and TechCrunch
| 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.| 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.| 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
| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Kaspi.kz, which runs two super apps in Kazakhstan, raised $1B+ in its US IPO, with the stock rising 4.3% on its debut, giving the company a market cap of ~$18B — The American depositary shares, which were trading below their IPO price until the final minute of their New York debut Friday …
More: Investing.com and Reuters
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