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FTC bans location data providers Gravy Analytics and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data tied to sensitive locations and more — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry …
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Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/privacy, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
The CFPB proposes limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach discovered in April 2024 — In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
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Bluesky: @johndavisson, @digiphile, @benwinters, @josephcox, and @socalstephanie. Mastodon: @aram@aoir.social
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The FBI and CISA urge US telecoms to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain present on telecoms' networks — - Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.
More: NBC News, Washington Post, The Record, Cybersecurity …, Associated Press, CNN, Daily Caller News Foundation, DataBreachToday.com, ComputerWeekly.com, Nextgov/FCW, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, Politico, and PCMag
Bluesky: @tarah.org, @leak, @samsabin, @iainthomson, and @evangreer
Mastodon: @thegibson@hackers.town, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @mhoye@mastodon.social, and @JessTheUnstill@infosec …
Forums: r/politics, r/conspiracy, r/signal, and Slashdot
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says it's using Amazon's Trainium and Graviton chips to serve search services and is evaluating if Trainium2 chips can be used to pretrain its AI models — Apple is currently using Amazon Web Services' custom artificial intelligence chips for services like search and will evaluate …
More: The Information, Reuters, AppleInsider, Supercharged, MacRumors, Benzinga, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, GeekWire, and Yahoo Finance
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces the general availability of its Trainium2 chips, and EC2 Trn2 UltraServers, which feature 64 Trainium2 chips, and slates Trainium3 for late 2025 — At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs).| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS announces Nova models for Bedrock, including Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier text generating models, and Canvas and Reel models for image and video generation — At its re:Invent conference on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, announced a new family …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Nick Clegg says Mark Zuckerberg is keen to play “an active role” in Trump admin tech policy debates and Meta “overdid it a bit” when moderating pandemic content — Policy chief Nick Clegg says social media company ‘overdid it’ on content moderation, as it seeks to placate president-elect
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X: @mgsiegler, @zachpraiss, and @alexeheath
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility — At its re:Invent conference, Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless …
More: Amazon Web Services, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, and Constellation Research. Forums: Hacker News
| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Vodka maker Stoli says an August 2024 ransomware attack contributed to the bankruptcy filing of its US arm, amid its ongoing issues with the Russian government — A ransomware attack on the multinational Stoli Group in August helped push two of the vodka-maker's U.S. subsidiaries into bankruptcy, the company's CEO said last week.
More: BleepingComputer, SC Media, Fast Company, Proactive, ZeroHedge News, and Plain Dealer
| Timothy Gardner / Reuters: |
Meta is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers, as it plans to add 1 to 4 gigawatts of new US nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s — Meta (META.O) said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence …
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| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky agreed in a US court to plead guilty to commodities fraud and a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the price of CEL — Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, said on Tuesday he intends to plead guilty to two counts of fraud.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches Automated Reasoning checks to combat AI hallucinations, and Model Distillation, a tool to transfer the capabilities of a large model to a small one — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, is launching a new tool to combat hallucinations — that is, scenarios where an AI model behaves unreliably.| Bloomberg: |
Bluesky COO Rose Wang rejects the idea the social network is “left-leaning” and says Bluesky plans to launch a subscription service by the end of this year — - Company isn't building an app for ‘one voice,’ Wang says — Service has added more than 10 million US users since election| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Walmart completes its $2.3B acquisition of TV maker Vizio, saying the purchase will let it offer new ways for advertisers to reach customers via Walmart Connect — Walmart announced the completion of its $2.3 billion all-cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio, a move by the retailing giant to expand its advertising business.
More: The Verge, Android Authority, Walmart Inc., Engadget, 9to5Google, The Streamable, Display Daily, TechCrunch, Adweek, TVNewsCheck, Cord Cutters News, PYMNTS.com, Streaming Better, StreamTV Insider, Chain Store Age, Gizmodo, The Desk, and Media Play News
Bluesky: @dansheehan, @atomicovermind, @aegies, @bdsams.com, @caseynewton, @daniloc.xyz, @pearlmania500, and @matthewkeys.net
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
OpenAI hires its first chief marketing officer, Kate Rouch, who joined Coinbase in 2021 to lead global marketing and PR and previously spent 11+ years at Meta — OpenAI has hired its first chief marketing officer, nabbing Kate Rouch from crypto company Coinbase.
More: Ad Age, PYMNTS.com, TestingCatalog, and The Information
X: @kate_rouch, @kate_rouch, and @davidmarcus
| Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Sources: Meta's internal coding tool, Metamate, incorporates OpenAI's GPT-4 alongside Llama to make the tool more useful for developers and other Meta staff — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — Despite Mark Zuckerberg hailing Meta's Llama AI model as among the best in tech, his company is happy to also use a rival when needed.
Threads: @ociubotaru, @lemayzing42, and @kalihays1
| Nico Grant / New York Times: |
Internal docs: in early 2021, Google's lawyers, policy team, and more worried that its $1.2B Project Nimbus deal with Israel may enable human rights violations — The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel's military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
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