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Google is discontinuing its Google One VPN in the coming months due to a lack of use; Google's free Pixel VPN that debuted in 2022 with the Pixel 7 will remain — Back in October of 2020, Google One introduced a VPN that later became available on all plans and platforms.
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| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
A US judge sentences ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison for stealing $12.3M+ from Nirvana and another crypto exchange in 2022 — - Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced Friday for hacking smart contracts — Ahmed admitted to stealing $12 million from two platforms| Reuters: |
Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies this month, including some Microsoft customers — OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has hosted hundreds of Fortune 500 company executives in San Francisco, New York and London …
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| Reuters: |
A UK judge throws out Apple's motion to dismiss a ~$979M lawsuit representing 1,500+ UK-based developers alleging that the App Store's 30% commission is unfair — Apple (AAPL.O) on Friday lost a bid to throw out a mass lawsuit valued at just under $1 billion, brought in London on behalf …
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| Jaffer Zaidi / The Keyword: |
Google tests removing links to CA news sites to measure the impact of the California Journalism Preservation Act and pauses investments in the CA news ecosystem — A pending bill in the California state legislature, the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), would create a “link tax” …
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Roku says hackers accessed ~576K accounts using credential stuffing, and made purchases in ~400 cases, after a similar breach affecting ~15K accounts in March — The new security incident was discovered a month after the company learned that 15,000 accounts were impacted in a similar breach.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
CISA is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense; sources: the attackers copied several terabytes of customer data, including credentials — The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence …
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| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: earlier in 2024, China told its largest telecom carriers to phase out foreign chips from their networking equipment by 2027, in a blow to Intel and AMD — Beijing's move is the latest installment in a U.S.-China technology war that is splintering the global chip industry| Bloomberg: |
Adobe used images created by tools like Midjourney and uploaded to its stock marketplace by users, to train Firefly; Adobe says ~5% of images were AI-generated — Company promotes its tool as safe from content scraped from the internet. — When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Last week, LinkedIn began letting advertisers pay to amplify posts from some users through Thought Leader ads, as it enters the market of influencer marketing — Ryan Roslansky, CEO of Microsoft's LinkedIn subsidiary, speaks at a LinkedIn event in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2016.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram to let users chat with Meta AI and discover content — Meta is pushing ahead with its efforts to make its generative AI-powered products available to more users. Apart from testing Meta AI chatbot with users in countries like India on WhatsApp …
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A profile of Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, who says that, as an atheist, he's uncomfortable with Silicon Valley's “AGI rhetoric” and “religious” AGI fascination — Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI gives premium ChatGPT users access to an updated GPT-4 Turbo, promising “more direct, less verbose” responses that “use more conversational language” — ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral AI-powered chatbot, just got a big upgrade. — OpenAI announced today …
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Berachain, a bear-themed crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain, raised a $100M Series B through a SAFT, a simple agreement for future tokens — - The platform positions itself as a community-driven blockchain — Funds will be used to expand international footprint| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Researchers say they haven't found “strikingly novel compounds” after analyzing a subset of the 2.2M new crystals DeepMind claimed its AI tool GNoME discovered — In November, Google's AI outfit DeepMind published a press release titled “Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning.”
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