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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed — - Gary Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud-related charges following the collapse of FTX a month earlier.
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| Wired: |
An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany — More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers …
More: Bloomberg, Metacurity, and Pixel Envy
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Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/technology, and r/politics
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits — Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
More: Hindustan Times and Quartz
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Forums: Hacker News and r/privacy
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Meta unveils new Messenger features, including audio and video voicemail, AI backgrounds for video calls, and hands-free calling and messaging via Siri — There's a pretty cool update for Messenger out today. Meta has introduced phone and video calling voicemail, similar to FaceTime.
More: Meta, TechCrunch, and Social Media Today
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 — Amazon's first wall-mounted smart display just got a big upgrade. Today, the company announced the launch of the Echo Show 21 …
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 — The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …
More: BGR, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Neowin, and The Verge
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Forums: r/apple, r/privacy, and MacRumors Forums
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own — Microsoft is starting to open up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries today.
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Forums: r/XboxGamePass, r/xcloud, r/xbox, and r/Games
| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing generative AI training returns, a market hype break may be useful, just as with previous innovations — Businesses will benefit from some much-needed breathing space to figure out how to deliver that all-important return on investment.| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group for their role in the hacks of 29+ individuals and theft of $11M+ in crypto — - $11 million stolen in years-long campaign targeting US firms — Loosely-knit group consists of young men in US and UK| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta — H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it announced a seed round of $220 million …
More: BNN Bloomberg, Put AI to Work for You, Semafor, Put AI to Work for You, SpicyIP, CIO.com, and InfoQ
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Police: |
Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time — Surprise! Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 today so that app developers can test the new APIs …
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| Rest of World: |
GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021 — What happened to the “next billion” internet users? They're already online. — 57% of the population is already connected to mobile internet.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” — Google is tightening its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles and pages that often have little … | Bloomberg: |
SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push — - SMIC has more than doubled in two months as market eyes Trump — Competition looms and valuation not attractive: Morgan Stanley
More: Tom's Hardware
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto industry over whether to create a White House post dedicated to cryptocurrency policy and is vetting candidates — - President-elect's team is vetting candidates for the job — Crypto industry executives spoke with Trump this week| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google — Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia — Odoo, a startup taking on SAP in the realm of enterprise software, boosted its valuation to 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) … | Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: |
Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users — Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that's occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
More: Ars Technica, The Independent, Android Police, The Verge, Strava, Cybernews.com, TechRadar, and MEDIANAMA
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed — Efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to address cybersecurity issues faced significant criticism this week … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called “subnets” on the Bittensor blockchain network — Barry Silbert isn't done yet. The billionaire entrepreneur first made his mark in finance when, at age 17 …
More: CoinDesk and Wall Street Journal
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p — Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi.
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X: @danielhowley, @playstation, and @speady99
Forums: r/PlayStationPlus, r/GeForceNOW, r/Games, r/playstation, and Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond “For You” and “Following” feeds — As X competitor Bluesky takes off, topping 20 million users, Meta's own Twitter-like app, Instagram Threads, has begun rolling …
More: The Verge and New Scientist
Threads: @jitpal, @nwbrownboi, @tomwarrenuk, @thebrianpenny, @thebrianpenny, and @bluesky_social. Bluesky: @jaypeters.net
| Financial Times: |
How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, visual language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn to move and pick up skills — Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible — “This is not science fiction,” …
X: @alisonkilling, @samjoiner, and @leokelion
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York — - Pact doesn't include $1.6 billion loan from proposed agreement — Biden administration has been firming up Chips Act awards
More: Fierce Electronics, GlobalFoundries, Reuters, Tech Xplore, Forexlive, Livemint, and Business Insider
| Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: |
Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M — - PSG Equity, Golub, others inject $800 million in equity, debt — Vista acquired LogicMonitor for $415 million in mid-2018
More: TechCrunch, LogicMonitor, LogicMonitor, Constellation Research, and TechCrunch
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