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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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
AWS announces Project Rainier, a cluster with “hundreds of thousands” of Trainium2 chips, slated for 2025, that Anthropic aims to use to train and run AI models
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.
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
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 …
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  —  Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025, but the game will no longer be offered for download, and player registration will be closed.
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 …
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
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 …
Justina Lee / Bloomberg:
US hedge fund AQR's Cliff Asness, who is considered a quant legend, says AI has taken over parts of his job by being “annoyingly better” than him at some tasks  —  - Quant legend says tech ‘annoyingly better’ at some tasks  — Newfangled tools are delivering tangible gains on Wall Street
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Celsius Network founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky pleaded guilty in a US court 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.

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging it intentionally doctored a Panorama documentary to misrepresent his January 6 speech

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
The Boston Globe says Brian McGrory will return as editor, after Nancy Barnes' departure at the end of 2025; McGrory previously was editor from 2012 to 2023

Sara Fischer / Axios:
WSJ launches Free Expression, a newsletter-focused opinion brand that will be available via its own channels and Substack, initially offering free content

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
A look at ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger's history at Intel, the setbacks he faced in trying to turn the company around, and why investors may have lost confidence in him
Bloomberg:
Bluesky COO Rose Wang says the social network is not “a US-centric, left-leaning app” and that Bluesky plans to launch a subscription service by the end of 2024
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Trade business software provider ServiceTitan offers an IPO range of $52 to $57 per share and plans to buy back the shares of its nonconvertible preferred stock

Earlier Picks

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $9.44B, vs. $9.34B est., net income up 25% YoY to $1.5B, and gives Q4 guidance above est.; CRM jumps 10%+
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Walmart closes its $2.3B cash acquisition of TV maker Vizio, saying the deal will let it offer new ways for advertisers to reach customers via Walmart Connect
Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Sources: Intel has started evaluating outsiders to be CEO, including former board member Lip-Bu Tan, who left in August 2024 after clashing with Pat Gelsinger
Wes Davis / The Verge:
Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches by “After date,” “Before date,” and “From profile”
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