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While businesses frequently try to get on an incoming president's good side, the past week's frenzy of tech leaders to woo Trump stood out from other industries — It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.
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| Harrison Smith / Washington Post: |
Donald Bitzer, plasma screen co-inventor and the father of PLATO computer system, considered a precursor to messaging apps and more, died on December 10 at 90 — He helped shape cyberculture as the father of PLATO, a computer-based educational network that sparked the development of plasma screens and digital messaging.
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| John Beck / Rest of World: |
The White Helmets, UNHCR, UNRWA, and other volunteer organizations describe how apps like WhatsApp have transformed communication in conflict and disaster zones — Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas. — Fidaa Maksour, a dispatcher with the White Helmets …
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| Reuters: |
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation — The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla …
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| Aimee Ortiz / New York Times: |
Officials say hackers possibly accessed personal data of hundreds of thousands Rhode Island residents, with a “high probability” that sensitive info was stolen — An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people … | Financial Times: |
Sources say it makes no sense for Elon Musk to target OpenAI with onerous regulation as co-chair of DOGE, given his remit is to find ways to slash regulation — Tesla chief's influence over Donald Trump encourages ChatGPT-maker into patriotic pitch to incoming administration
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| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU startups compete with global rivals — BRUSSELS — The European Union has committed hundreds of millions of euros to help startups catch up in the global artificial intelligence race.
| Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum: |
An interview with Fei-Fei Li on her NeurIPS keynote talk about visual intelligence, her startup World Labs, giving machines 3D spatial intelligence, and more — Her startup, World Labs, is giving machines 3D spatial intelligence — Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum covering AI and biomedical engineering.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
A look at Broadcom's path to $1T in market cap: stock up 760%+ and three deals worth $10B+ after abandoning its $120B bid to acquire Qualcomm in 2018, and more — When Broadcom tried to buy rival Qualcomm for $120 billion in 2018, its efforts were thwarted.| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
Qualcomm stated Snapdragon X PC return rates are “within industry norm”, after interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus claimed large ARM PC return rates — Qualcomm provided the statement in response to a claim made by interim Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An investigation finds Cryptomus, registered in Vancouver, is a payment processor for dozens of Russian crypto exchanges and sites hawking cybercrime services — A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find a yearlong ongoing supply-chain attack targeting malicious and benevolent security personnel and stealing over 390K WordPress credentials — A sophisticated and ongoing supply-chain attack operating for the past year has been stealing sensitive login credentials from both malicious … Sponsor Posts
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