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Washington Post:
A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk  —  Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro  —  When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Dating apps are encouraging users to meet in person to address concerns about “dating fatigue” among Gen Z and reverse a post-pandemic slowdown in growth  —  Matchmaking services offer double dates and initial conversations in person as alternatives to swipe-and-text culture
More: NPR
Bloomberg:
How UK Biobank, a government-backed cloud database of 1B+ medical images from 100,000+ participants, is fueling breakthroughs in AI-driven diagnostics  —  A massive database of medical images is offering an unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear.
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs in the US, with creator content tailored for family and group viewing and app features enhanced for TV  —  A generation that grew up watching YouTubers on tablets and phones have migrated to TVs, and Hollywood is losing ground
Louis Columbus / VentureBeat:
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like “Watch Mode Activation” and “Terminal Restrictions”  —  In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.
Kim Zetter / Wired:
How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus  —  A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus.

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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Paramount sweetens its WBD bid with a “ticking fee” worth ~$650M/quarter if the deal isn't closed by year-end and offers to fund WBD's $2.8B Netflix breakup fee

John Kelly / @johnkelly:
The Washington Post's February 10 print edition featured two full pages of AP stories in the A section and a total of eight stories from the wire service

Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Lenore Taylor, editor of Guardian Australia, is leaving the outlet after 13 years in senior roles and 10 years as editor; David Munk will serve as acting editor

More News

Will Knight / Wired:
A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral

Earlier Picks

Alexander Wei / @alexwei_:
[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/math, r/agi, and r/slatestarcodex
New York Times:
How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between “Islamists” and “Muslims”
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