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Sources: Apple has been working with Sony on a months long effort to add PS VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pros — Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro. Also: Apple has a three-year road map …
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| Margherita Bassi / Gizmodo: |
A study involving 747,604 women finds those who paid extra for AI-enhanced mammograms were 21% more likely to have breast cancer detected than those who didn't — In a study, women who chose AI-powered mammograms were 21% more likely to have cancer detected than those who didn't.| CBS News: |
US FEC post-election filings: Elon Musk gave $239M to America PAC, $20.5M to the RBG PAC, $10M to the Senate Leadership Fund, $3M to the MAHA Alliance, and more — Elon Musk spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to back President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, campaign finance records filed Thursday show.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Apple faces a US lawsuit over allegedly failing to implement a system to detects and remove CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021 — A 27-year old former child sexual abuse victim photographed anonymously with her mother. Her lawsuit against Apple claims …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
How Russia-linked Akira group's ransomware attack on Knights of Old in June 2023 led to the 158-year-old UK delivery firm's bankruptcy after it refused to pay — The inside story of Russian hackers who broke into a 158-year-old UK transport business. — The black-and-white message … | Davide Castelvecchi / Nature: |
A randomized study at a corporate lab employing more than 1,000 researchers: teams using AI discovered 44% more new materials than teams with standard workflows — - Davide Castelvecchi — Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous in applied research, but can it actually invent useful materials faster than humans can?| Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Bloomberg Intelligence: the Magnificent Seven's combined profit growth is projected to slow from 34% in 2024 to 18% in 2025, or just 3% if Nvidia is excluded — - Magnificent 7's 2025 profit growth projected to slow to 18% — Chip giant Nvidia is seen driving most of that profit growth
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| Paula Span / New York Times: |
Researchers say digital payments and cashless policies, which are picking up pace in the US, disadvantage a number of groups, including older adults — “We're putting another burden on the elderly that we don't have to,” one researcher said. — Some things you can no longer do with cash … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
GroupM expects global ad industry revenue to hit $1T for the first time in 2024; Google, Meta, ByteDance, Amazon, and Alibaba are set to earn 50%+ of the total — Google, Meta, ByteDance, Amazon and Alibaba expected to earn more than half the annual total — The global advertising industry … | Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at chipmaker Marvell, whose market cap surpassed Intel's, driven by its data center business; CEO Matt Murphy has reportedly been floated as Intel's CEO — Marvell's role in helping tech titans create their own data center chips has boosted its revenue—and valuation
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Study: gTLDs like .shop and .xyz, which had 11% market share for new domains, were ~37% of cybercrime domains reported between September 2023 and August 2024 — Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number … | Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
Generative AI's rise will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps — I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro. It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
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