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November 17, 2024, 3:29 AM

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Bloomberg:
Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams  —  - Mike Tyson and Jake Paul faced off in heavily anticipated bout  — Users complained on social media of difficulty watching fight
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Gavin Anderegg / anderegg.ca:
Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames  —  November has sucked so far.  One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever  —  Investors see Trump victory as a positive with threat of TikTok ban looming in U.S.  —  TikTok parent ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised  —  Carrier joins growing list of known victims, including AT&T and Verizon, of the major Chinese spying operation
GovTech:
US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying AI-driven attacks, targeted attacks on AI systems, and design flaws as core risks  —  A new series of recommendations from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is designed to enable cloud providers, AI developers …
ProPublica:
Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs  —  - Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+  —  The operator of the cryptocurrency mixing service Helix was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday.
Morgan Meaker / Wired:
A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast  —  Aura Salla was once the tech giant's top lobbyist in Brussels.  Now, her presence as a regulator in the European Parliament is proving controversial.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks  —  According to a new report, Samsung's upcoming XR glasses that are being developed in collaboration with Google won't arrive until …
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Emails from Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI show Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman as early as 2017, Sam Altman considered an ICO, and more  —  New emails released as part of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI reveal that the company's fondness of drama is hardly new.

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