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In a blog post, Elon Musk says that he has informed the board that he now believes Tesla should stay public and the board indicated that they agree — - “Although the majority of shareholders I spoke to said they would remain with Tesla if we went private, the sentiment, in a nutshell, was “please don't do this,” Musk said.| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Fixed flaw in the Fortnite Installer on the Galaxy Apps store and Epic's site let any app hijack the game download process to install anything on a user's phone — The exact problem we expected to happen, happened. — Google has just publicly disclosed that it discovered … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
T-Mobile says hackers stole encrypted passwords of ~2M customers; researchers say passwords may have only been hashed with a weak algorithm that can be cracked — T-Mobile disclosed an “incident" in which hackers accessed “some” customers' personal information—but no financial data or passwords.| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers find flaw allowing hackers to brute force T-Mobile account PINs, likely via T-Mobile's faulty API, after initiating purchase on Apple's online store — Mobile account PINs intended to protect T-Mobile and AT&T customers' accounts were exposed by two security vulnerabilities.| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
An overview of obstacles Alphabet is facing in its efforts to establish a presence in China in search, smartphones, autonomous cars, and more — BEIJING — Google has faced sharp criticism, including from its own employees, for its efforts to rebuild an internet search presence in China … | Christina Larson / MIT Technology Review: |
China is establishing a digital totalitarian state that minutely tracks its citizens' lives by relying on a combination of surveillance, AI, and big data — Here's how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance. — In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published … | Matt Binder / Mashable: |
YouTube will roll out the ability to enable non-skippable ads, up to a maximum length of 20 seconds, to all creators in its Partner Program starting next week — You might soon be seeing less of that “skip ad” button over on YouTube. — In a video titled Want to earn more money from ad revenue? … | Jingjing Jiang / Pew Research Center: |
Survey: more than 50% of US teens say they are trying to reduce phone, social media, and video game use; 57% of parents say they restrict children's screen time — 54% of U.S. teens say they spend too much time on their cellphones, and two-thirds of parents express concern over their teen's screen time.| Shirin Ghaffary / Recode: |
Airbnb sues New York City over the law, passed in July, that requires it to share hosts' names and addresses with city's enforcement agency on a monthly basis — NYC estimates as many as two-thirds of Airbnb listings there are illegal. — Airbnb is taking New York City to court.| Reuters: |
Chinese province suspends Didi's service after a driver allegedly killed a carpooling passenger, the second such incident in 2018 — BEIJING (Reuters) - A ride-sharing passenger in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou was raped and killed, allegedly by a driver for the country's largest ride-hailing firm … | Bloomberg: |
Japan is assembling a government-led group, including Uber, Airbus, and 19 others, that aims to bring airborne vehicles to the country in the next decade — - Japan wants to use the technology to ease traffic snarls — Uber already seeking to start air-taxi services in 2023| Sean O'Neill / Skift: |
Rental platform Sonder, which leases, furnishes, and manages its own properties to standardize experience, raises $85M Series C, bringing total raised to $135M — If you thought hotels had a lot of soft brands, wait until you see what's emerging in the vacation rental sector.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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