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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
The ESA shuts down the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, after new competitors, partner withdrawals, changing audience habits, and more; E3 began in 1995 — The collapse ends years of attempts to revive the event that once dominated the industry — The Electronic Entertainment Expo …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses beating Google, but not Apple, thanks to a jury trial, Google erasing chats, and because “Apple didn't write anything down” — - The verdict is a significant win for Epic Games and its CEO Tim Sweeney, which have been fighting against mobile app stores … | Bloomberg: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple releases an iOS beta with Stolen Device Protection; if enabled, the feature limits actions like Apple ID password resets when not in a “familiar location” — Stolen Device Protection can prevent criminals from using your passcode to change your Apple account
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| Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: |
A look at Twitter's culture prior to Elon Musk's acquisition, when it focused on improving the health of online conversations, rather than growth at all costs — the early '10s, Twitter was at the height of its power. The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role …
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| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telco, is mitigating a cyberattack that led to a “large-scale technical failure”, leaving millions without internet and cell service — Kyivstar customers began complaining about network and internet outages in the early morning.| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X generated just over $600M in ad revenue in each of 2023's first three quarters, down from $1B+ per quarter in 2022 and on track for ~$2.5B in 2023 — - X to miss internal goals for ad revenue, people familiar say — Musk's personal tweets continue to scare off advertisers
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Netflix publishes its first What We Watched report, detailing the most-watched content from January to June 2023; The Night Agent was #1 with 812M+ hours viewed — Netflix is going to start publishing a new report twice a year that details the most popular shows and movies on the platform.| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division announces the end of perpetual licenses and a move to subscriptions, plus a simplification of its product portfolio — Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users — +COMMENT Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation Division …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Meta adds multimodal AI to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos — I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they're pretty wild. Here's how the experimental feature works. — “Hey, Meta.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple offers to let rivals access its tap-and-go payments systems for mobile wallets, hoping to settle EU antitrust charges and avoid a possible fine — Apple (AAPL.O) has offered to let rivals access its tap-and-go mobile payments systems used for mobile wallets …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google plans to shorten Maps' default auto-delete history feature from 18 months to three months and let users store Maps Timeline data locally on their devices — Google Maps has gotten some fun updates recently, and now it's offering some more privacy-forward tweaks as it adds more ways to control your location data.
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| Tim McDonnell / Semafor: |
The US DOE opens The Office of Critical and Emerging Technology to coordinate the use of AI and other tech to fight climate change, prevent pandemics, and more — The U.S. Department of Energy today opened a new office tasked with coordinating the government's support for and use …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone — The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn't slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
More: Microsoft Research, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, and The Information
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| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Stanford professor David Mills, who led SBF's defense as a favor to his parents, says the ex-FTX CEO is “the worst person I've ever seen do a cross examination” — Stanford Law Professor David Mills, who led defense for FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried as favor to his parents, now fears ‘unwinnable’ case has ended their friendship.| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
The UK Judicial Office issues guidance letting judges use AI tools like ChatGPT, while warning of their shortcomings, for tasks such as writing legal rulings — The UK now permits judges to use the “jolly useful” AI chatbot in court. — Robots may help determine your legal fate if you end up in a British court.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft warns that threat actors are misusing OAuth apps to automate phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for crypto mining — Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for cryptomining.| Joseph Bernstein / New York Times: |
A look at Praxis, which raised $19.2M from Paradigm, Alameda Research, and others to build a city on the Mediterranean for tech bros and downtown NY tastemakers — Dryden Brown wants Praxis to be a crypto-city for tech bros and tastemakers. Just don't ask for details.
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| CNN: |
A US GAO review of nearly 24 agencies' AI usage catalogs 200+ current applications and 500+ planned uses of AI and ML, despite the lack of government guidance — The US government plans to vastly expand its reliance on artificial intelligence, but it is years behind on policies …
More: U.S. Government …, The Hill, Nextgov/FCW, and FedScoop
| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia's state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days — Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia's state tax service with malware … | Bloomberg: |
True Anomaly, a startup designing hardware and software for military and intelligence space reconnaissance systems, raised a $100M Series B led by Riot Ventures — - Contractor's spacecraft to track national threats in orbit — Threats can range from enemy satellites to space debris
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Hackers breached Coin Cloud, which went bankrupt in February 2023, and stole the data of 300K users; source: the Bitcoin ATM company didn't have a security team — In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming … 
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
On November 17, YouTube removed code that said if a channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, which gives a cut of ad revenue, leaving researchers in the dark — YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription payouts, obscuring which creators benefit most from the platform.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Gina Raimondo says Nvidia “can, will, and should” sell AI chips to China for commercial use, but not advanced AI chips, and spoke to Jensen Huang about US rules — The Biden administration is in discussions with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips …
More: NBC 7 San Diego, ExtremeTech, TechPowerUp, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, Finbold, and Silicon Valley Business …. X: @refsrc
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