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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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| 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
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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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| 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
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X: @stockmktnewz, @firstadopter, @dinabass, @elonmusk, @edludlow, @dinabass, and @silvermanjacob. LinkedIn: Dina Bass
| 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.| 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 …
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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.| 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.| Amy Or / Bloomberg: |
Kazakhstan-based mobile app provider Kaspi.kz 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 …
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| Joy Lo Dico / Financial Times: |
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