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Sources: in a secret January order, UK security officials demanded that Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user globally has uploaded — Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content …
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple settles a lawsuit against a former iOS Software Engineer who leaked Journal app details and more to journalists; the employee issues an apology on X — Last March, Apple filed a lawsuit against one of its former employees, an iOS Software Engineer who had leaked confidential information …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Headlines, MacRumors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
WBD took $300M in gaming writedowns in 2024; current and former staff blame a lack of a strong, cohesive vision during former games chief David Haddad's tenure — Last year, Warner Bros. Discovery took $300 million in losses on gaming. The near future is rife with additional challenges.
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LinkedIn: Jeremy M. and Jason Schreier
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them — Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form … | Thomas Escritt / Reuters: |
A German court rules that X must provide researchers access to data for tracking misinformation and disinformation ahead of Germany's national election — Elon Musk's social media platform X must release information enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying information on the network, a German court ruled on Friday.
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Law.com International, Politico, and Bitcoin Insider
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that attackers are using static ASP.NET machine keys found online to inject malware into ViewState, which controls web form state during reloads — Microsoft warns that attackers are deploying malware in ViewState code injection attacks using static ASP. NET machine keys found online.
More: Microsoft Security Blog, SC Media, Help Net Security, Hackread, PaymentSecurity.io, Dark Reading, Cybersecurity Dive, CyberInsider, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, and Cyber Security News
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Trump issues an EO pausing the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China until systems are in place to “process and collect tariff revenue” — President Donald Trump has paused the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China.
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Kadrey v. Meta: unsealed emails show Meta allegedly torrented 81.7TB+ of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna's Archive, for AI training — Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the “most damning evidence” yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging …
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| CNBC: |
Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea — Elon Musk said Friday he will rehire a DOGE staffer who abruptly resigned following the exposure of his tweets advocating for racism and eugenics.
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| Bloomberg: |
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Bluesky: @malwarejake and @carlquintanilla
| Reuters: |
Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence is in talks to raise funding at a $20B+ valuation, up from a $5B valuation in its September 2024 funding round — Safe Superintelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever last year … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google edited Gemini's response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about Gouda cheese, regurgitated from seeming SEO-optimized blogs — Gemini's response no longer says that Gouda makes up '50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption.'| Wired: |
Sources: DOGE is pushing to develop GSAi, a custom generative AI chatbot for the US GSA to boost productivity, analyze contract and procurement data, and more — The chatbot is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.
More: MIT Technology Review, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, and Washington Post
Bluesky: @kint and @wired.com
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind says its AlphaGeometry2 model solved 84% of International Math Olympiad's geometry problems from the last 25 years, surpassing average gold medalists — An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist … | Reuters: |
SolarWinds says it will go private in a $4.4B deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital; SWI closes up 21.8% — SolarWinds (SWI.N) said on Friday it would go private in a $4.4 billion deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital, the latest sign debt-funded deals were set to rebound this year as borrowing costs decline.
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Hugging Face researchers release “Open Deep Research” an open-source AI agent created in 24 hours, aiming to match OpenAI's Deep Research performance — On Tuesday, Hugging Face researchers released an open source AI research agent called “Open Deep Research,” … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates o3-mini's chain of thought to help free and paid ChatGPT users “understand how the model thinks”, in response to DeepSeek and other competitors — In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model …
More: Forbes, ZDNET, VentureBeat, eWeek, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, en.ain.ua, and iClarified
X: @openai, @btibor91, @vikhyatk, @slow_developer, @liz_love_lace, @spencerkschiff, @polynoamial, @polynoamial, @sama, and @mckaywrigley
Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stripe competitor Rapyd is in talks to raise $300M from investors at a $3.5B valuation, a dramatic decline from its valuation of around $9B in 2021 — The high-profile startup is in talks for a funding round that would shave billions off its value.| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
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