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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.
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LinkedIn: Shane Morris, Bryan Law, Job Kuijpers, Ann Johnson, and Steve Faehl
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| 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.
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| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models — Industry moves away from paying gig economy workers in Africa and Asia in push to build ‘smarter’ models| Joseph Bernstein / New York Times: |
A look at the video podcasting surge; study: ~75% of podcast consumers play video episodes and ~30% play video episodes minimized or in background mode — An audio-only medium spawned a giant industry that is now largely focused on video. — The following are the runtimes of some recent episodes … | Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Mustafa Suleyman, who is in charge of Microsoft's efforts to commercialize AI, says he is focused on “humanist superintelligence” to solve hard social problems — Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman is focused on solving social problems rather than racing for superintelligence| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK may backtrack on its January order for Apple to create a backdoor for iCloud encrypted data after pressure from US officials, including JD Vance — Officials fear technology deals with Washington could be impeded after Trump administration weighs in
More: WinBuzzer and Cryptopolitan
| 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
More: Cautious Optimism, New York Times, and Livemint
| 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.
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X: @uk_biobank, @uk_biobank, and @uk_biobank
LinkedIn: Bloomberg News and Ed Johnson
| 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.
More: Ynetnews, OpenAI, Gizchina.com, and OpenAI
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
More: Pulse 2.0, SecurityWeek, iCOUNTER, InfoRiskToday.com, FinTech Global, Dallas Innovates, and VC News Daily. LinkedIn: iCOUNTER
| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at the Dor Brothers, a video production studio that has gained over 100M views across platforms by creating viral subversive videos using only AI tools — President Trump leans forward in a limousine, takes a long puff from a cigarette and flashes a wide grin.
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| 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.
More: Security Affairs. Bluesky: @andyjabbour and @patrickhowelloneill.com. Mastodon: @kimzetter@infosec.exchange. X: @kimzetter
| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Calgary-based GeologicAI, which uses AI and sensors to help capture data in rock and core samples faster, raised a $44M Series B led by Blue Earth Capital — Calgary-based mining tech startup GeologicAI has secured $44 million USD ($60.5 million CAD) in Series B funding as the intense demand … Sponsor Posts
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