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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
In the wake of Salt Typhoon, US officials recommend Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers — Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
More: Forbes, AppleInsider, Reuters, Associated Press, Politico, and PCMag
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Forums: r/cybersecurity and Slashdot
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The FBI and CISA give US telcos best practices to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain on their networks — - Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.
More: Cybersecurity …, Washington Post, The Record, CyberScoop, Cyber Daily, The Hacker News, CNN, ComputerWeekly.com, TechCrunch, Nextgov/FCW, and Associated Press
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Mastodon: @thegibson@hackers.town, @da_667@infosec.exchange, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @JessTheUnstill@infosec …, and @mhoye@mastodon.social
Forums: r/technology, r/signal, r/conspiracy, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps during major elections in the US, the UK, India, Indonesia, and others — At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
More: The Verge, Meta, The Guardian, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Cybernews.com, CNET, PetaPixel, The Hill, Benzinga, The National Pulse, The Hill, Social Media Today, iTnews, Tech.co, Washington Times, GovTech, UPI, The Information, Agence France-Presse, Euronews, and Financial Times
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft plans to shut down fits ree-to-play shooter XDefiant, with servers remaining on until June 3, 2025, and will cut ~277 people from the production team — Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, Ubisoft announced Tuesday. Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025 …
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Forums: r/gaming, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/XDefiant, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| 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 … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AWS unveils Nova models for Bedrock, including Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier for text generation, and Canvas for image generation and Reel for 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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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself — Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B — The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday …
More: Adobe, Shopify, WWD, Salesforce, Business Insider, CNN, MediaPost, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Retail Dive, PYMNTS.com, Chain Store Age, Media Play News, ABC7, and Deseret News. Forums: r/economy
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Founders Fund's Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's VC firm and best known for investments in SpaceX and Anduril, steps down as a GP — Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, said on Tuesday that he's stepping down as a general partner.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple says it is 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 …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple delays the mass production of a smart home-focused, display-equipped HomePod to after WWDC 2025 or Q3 2025, mainly due to software development — - The mass production schedule for the display-equipped HomePod has been delayed multiple times. Initially forecasted for 2024 …
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| Timothy Gardner / Reuters: |
Meta is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers, as it plans to add one to four gigawatts of 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 … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
The FTC bans location data providers Gravy 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 on Tuesday …
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X: @linakhanftc, @ericgarland, @douglaslfarrar, @digitaldemoc, @tjl, @linakhanftc, @leehepner, @conpro, @ftc, @econliberties, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @josephfcox, @mattdrange, and @samleecole
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/privacy, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein, including a new tax on e-commerce revenue, to combat a flood of packages — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| 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.| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Apptopia: Trump Media's Truth Social had 355,000 DAUs in November, up 3% MoM after Donald Trump won the election; Trump Media is still worth ~$7.2B — - Truth Social active users rise 3% in November: Apptopia data — President-elect's platform trails X's user base by 400 times| Elaine Moore / Financial Times: |
AI's rise has made job interviews more gruelling, with an increase in tests, essays, and assignments, as recruiters struggle to find the right candidates — Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one
More: Fortune
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Veo, its AI video model to generate “high-quality” 1080p resolution videos in various styles, to businesses, beating OpenAI's Sora to market — Veo, Google's latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines.| Reuters: |
Chinese AI company SenseTime says it completed a major organizational restructuring to focus on generative AI, shifting from computer vision and surveillance — Loss-making Chinese AI company SenseTime Group (0020.HK) said on Tuesday it has completed a major organizational restructuring aimed …
More: South China Morning Post, New York Times, KrASIA, and TechNode
| Jennifer Hughes / Financial Times: |
Vanguard's Chief Economist Joe Davis warns that the rush into AI stocks in 2024 has overplayed AI's near-term potential and risks a “correction” in share prices — Asset manager's chief economist Joe Davis says investors are overplaying the near-term potential of the technology| Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times: |
People living in Rome and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb's planned Colosseum experience for 32 guests in May 2025, saying it will demean a cultural treasure — An initiative by officials at the monument in a partnership with Airbnb has prompted an outcry among those who feel it will demean a cultural treasure.| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
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