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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, The Hacker News, Cyber Daily, CNN, ComputerWeekly.com, TechCrunch, Nextgov/FCW, and Associated Press
Bluesky: @tarah.org, @leak, @iainthomson, @socialmedialab.ca, @jkirk, @evangreer, and @samsabin
Mastodon: @thegibson@hackers.town, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @da_667@infosec.exchange, @mhoye@mastodon.social, and @JessTheUnstill@infosec …
Forums: r/conspiracy, r/technology, r/signal, r/politics, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: Reuters, Cult of Mac, Analytics India Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Information, AppleInsider, Supercharged, Benzinga, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, GeekWire, and MacDailyNews
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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.
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Threads: @katienotopoulos, @kevinroose, @andymstone, and @katienotopoulos. X: @florian4gamers. Forums: Slashdot
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
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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, and ABC7. Forums: r/economy
| 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.
More: Ubisoft, Ubisoft, The Verge, VentureBeat, Wccftech, Push Square, Press Start, PC Gamer, Game File, IGN, Aftermath, Neowin, TheGamer, The Game Post, Windows Central, 80 Level, Dexerto, Kotaku, Game Rant, CNET, Eurogamer.net, TweakTown, Gematsu, GamingBolt, San Francisco Chronicle, and Dot Esports
Forums: r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/XDefiant, r/gaming, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| 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 …
More: Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission, The Verge, Reuters, Wired, PCMag, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, The Overspill, Werd I/O, The Register, Biometric Update, Cybernews.com, Insurance Journal, Pixel Envy, Free Press, The Record, The Drum, MediaPost, PYMNTS.com, CyberScoop, NBC News, and Washington Post
Bluesky: @dell, @willoremus.com, @onekade, @wmcgeveran, @jelenawoehr, @josephcox, @justinbrookman, @samleecole, @jasonkoebler, and @benwinters. Mastodon: @elizayer@mastodon.social
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| Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
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Bluesky: @johndavisson, @digiphile, @benwinters, @josephcox, and @socalstephanie. Mastodon: @aram@aoir.social
X: @nydiavelazquez, @digiphile, @repsarajacobs, @janschakowsky, @chopracfpb, and @repdeluzio. Forums: r/technews
| 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.| 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, Plain Dealer, ZeroHedge News, Fast Company, and Proactive
| 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 … | 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
Bluesky: @jasoncross.org and @paleofuture
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Online secondhand fashion marketplace ThredUP, whose market cap dropped from $1.3B at its 2021 IPO to just $60M in November 2024, divests its European business — Fashion resale marketplace ThredUp has divested its European business to focus on its core domestic U.S. market.
More: ThredUp Inc., PYMNTS.com, and Retail TouchPoints
| 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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