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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Amid the Salt Typhoon hacks, US officials recommend that 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.
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Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/crypto, 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, Reuters, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Cyber Daily, The Hacker News, CNN, and ComputerWeekly.com
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft says it will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, but keep its servers on until June 3, 2025, and plans to lay off ~277 production team staff — 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/PS5, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped created with Google's NotebookLM summarizer, and a Your Music Evolution data story — Spotify Wrapped, the streamer's highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
| The Verge: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of features and products for 12 days on December 5, sources say including text-to-video AI tool Sora — Happy holidays from OpenAI. The AI startup plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features and products for 12 days, starting on December 5th.
More: Wccftech, The Hindu, South China Morning Post, NewsBytes, MSPoweruser, and TechCrunch
X: @openai, @shiringhaffary, @sama, @danprimack, @emilystewartm, @teddyschleifer, and @steph_palazzolo. Forums: r/singularity
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple delays the mass production of a smart home-focused, display-equipped HomePod until 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.
More: MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Ming-Chi Kuo, AppleInsider, The Verge, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, BGR, Android Authority, MacDailyNews, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, Mashable, Supercharged, Benzinga, NewsBytes, and GSMArena.com. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, “preserving the human touch” in game development, Astro Bot, and more — PlayStation's boss says artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to “revolutionise” gaming …
More: Game Rant, PC Gamer, PlayStation LifeStyle, Eurogamer.net, IGN, Benzinga, TheGamer, MSPoweruser, Android Headlines, Polygon, Wccftech, Push Square, Gameranx, and The Game Post
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content was less than 1% of fact-checked election-related misinformation on its apps during major US, UK, Indian, Indonesian, and other elections — 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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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Veo, an AI video model for generating “high-quality” 1080p videos in visual and cinematic 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.| 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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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more — Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, Apple Must, and Cult of Mac
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Forums: r/technology and MacRumors Forums
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May 2024, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, some owned by business leaders — The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.| 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, and Retail Dive. Forums: r/economy
| 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: |
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and best known for the firm's SpaceX and Anduril investments, 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.
More: Bloomberg and TechCrunch
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts — Apple and Chinese search giant Baidu are working together to add artificial intelligence features to iPhones sold in China …
More: Reuters, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, and Times of India
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Scribe 2 review: smooth reading and writing experience, a new Premium Pen with a rubberized top eraser, and a svelte design, but relatively pricey — I'm not sure Amazon has done enough to justify charging more for its writing tablet. — Deputy Editor, Reviews — My hand is cramping.
More: About Amazon
| Financial Times: |
The UK NCA uncovers a Russian multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme that let Russian spies, European drug traffickers, and more evade sanctions via crypto — Multibillion-dollar ring across London, Moscow and Dubai connected cash-rich criminals with sanctions evaders
More: The Guardian, Wired, Bloomberg, The Sun, National Crime Agency, and U.S. Department …
X: @jburnskoven, @jburnskoven, @jamiemaccoll, and @nca_uk
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
In an interview, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said that he is “a little worried” about the strong concentration of top open-source AI models from China — China's open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “reasoning.”
More: CCN.com and Business Insider
| Elaine Moore / Financial Times: |
AI's rise has made job interviews more grueling, due to a rise in technical 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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
DC's AG sues Amazon for allegedly secretly stopping its fastest delivery service to the nearly 50K Prime subscribers in historically lower-income neighborhoods — The District of Columbia's attorney general said the company deliberately outsourced Prime member deliveries in certain ZIP codes.
More: CNBC, Engadget, NBC News, Forbes, and Office of Attorney General …
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
CISAC study: generative AI risks costing music artists ~20% of their revenues by 2028; Abba's Björn Ulvaeus warns that AI “has the power to cause great damage” — ‘Very unfair’ for tech companies to use artists' work without paying them, says pop legend and head of advocacy group
More: Music Ally, CISAC, and Music Business Worldwide
| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that outperforms traditional methods on forecasts up to 15 days and is better at foreseeing extreme events — GenCast, from the company's DeepMind division, outperformed the world's best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather.
More: Engadget, Financial Times, Nature, and Google DeepMind
| Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: |
NXP and Taiwanese TSMC affiliate Vanguard break ground on a $7.8B plant in Singapore to make 130nm to 40nm chips and are already working on phase two expansion — - NXP says expansion of JV with VIS in Singapore is ‘in plan’ — The Dutch firm is also building a Chinese chip supply chain
More: South China Morning Post and NXP Semiconductors
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein that largely evade custom checks, possibly by taxing their e-commerce revenue — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Veeam, which helps secure and recover data, raised $2B in a secondary share sale led by TPG that valued it at $15B; Insight bought Veeam for $5B in January 2020 — Veeam, which helps its users secure and recover their data, has seen its valuation spike in a recent secondary sale that was aimed …
More: Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Tech Funding News, and Reuters
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