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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
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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.
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Forums: Hacker News and lobste.rs
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content — ‘We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.’
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| 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.
Mastodon: @glynmoody@mastodon.social and @lobbyctrl_tech@eupolicy …. Bluesky: @davor.fyi
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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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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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 … | Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits; a Texas researcher claims someone is impersonating him to make the submissions and smear him — GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Palantir stock jumps 11% after announcing a move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq; its stock is up 50%+ since reporting better-than-expected earnings on November 4 — Palantir shares continued their torrid run on Friday, soaring 11% to a record, after the developer of software for the military announced plans …
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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.”| Nandagopal Rajan / The Indian Express: |
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