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| Samsung on YouTube: |
A livestream of the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked “Galaxy AI is coming” event at the SAP Center in San Jose, California — #GalaxyAI is coming.Join us at #SamsungUnpacked, on January 17, 2024.To view the YouTube streams on a desktop or laptop computer you'll need: • Most recent ve...
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| Engadget: |
A live blog of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked, where the Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra are expected — The event marks the launch of the the company's flagship Galaxy S24 family. — Coming in hot off the heels of CES, Samsung's first Unpacked event of 2024 is expected to usher in a new family …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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Threads: @joannastern and @androidauthority
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, Android Authority, MobileSyrup, Wccftech, and Droid Life
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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| Venkat Eswarlu / MSPoweruser: |
Google updates Chrome's Incognito disclaimer after a privacy settlement, saying that Incognito mode “won't change how data is collected” by Google and others — Readers help support MSPoweruser. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Filing: Apple seeks $73.4M in legal fees from Epic, including a 10% discount since Epic prevailed on one of 10 counts, after SCOTUS declined to hear the appeals — Apple wants Epic Games to pay $73.4 million in legal fees after Apple won the antitrust case brought against it by the North Carolinian games maker.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple revises its US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, but will charge a 27% commission, or 12% for small business developers — In light of the US Supreme Court denying to hear Apple's appeal in its legal battle with Epic Games, Apple has announced a handful …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail PixieFail, a set of nine vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware from five of the top suppliers that helps hackers infect devices with malware — PixieFail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers. For the rest, less so. — UEFI firmware from five of the leading suppliers …
More: Quarkslab's blog, HotHardware, US-CERT, and iTnews
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Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Wired: |
Researchers describe a GPU vulnerability that allows attackers to exfiltrate data from local memory on some devices with Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and other chips — Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google plans to tweak search results to give comparison websites more prominence, including a new unit of links for such websites, to comply with the EU's DMA — Google will tweak online search results to give comparison sites more prominence, the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday …
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, AppleInsider, TNW, and Euractiv. X: @lutherlowe
| Engadget: |
Apple Vision Pro hands-on: eye and hand tracking are very accurate, but typing is frustrating, the killer app is watching movies, can feel heavy after 15+ min — We got hands-on with the device once more before its official launch, with some new features available to test this time.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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X: @dylanmcd8, @parkerortolani, @gartenberg, @rsgnl, @dylanmcd8, @dylanmcd8, @dylanmcd8, @gartenberg, @maxwinebach, @stephenrobles, and @rsgnl. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Notion debuts Notion Calendar, a free app on Mac, Windows, iOS, and the web with an optional Notion integration, after buying the calendar app Cron in June 2022 — Does the world need more calendar apps? That's the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The CISA and the FBI warn that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet to steal credentials for AWS, Microsoft 365, and other cloud apps — CISA and the FBI warned today that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet focused on cloud credential theft … | Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind details AlphaGeometry, created by AI researcher Trieu Trinh and others to solve Olympiad geometry problems at nearly a human gold medalist level — Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch. — For four years, the computer scientist … | Financial Times: |
CoinShares: US bitcoin ETFs had $871M of net inflows in the first three days of trading, including $723M inflows at BlackRock and $1.18B outflows at Grayscale — Grayscale has outflows of $579mn as investors turn to BlackRock and Fidelity for new crypto products
More: Bloomberg, NYDIG, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, Crypto Daily, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, and Bloomberg. X: @jseyff
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Alphabet's Wing unveils a new drone that can carry up to five pounds, fly a 12 mile round trip, and cruise at 65mph, set for deployment in the next 12 months — If drone delivery is going to go mainstream, it's going to need bigger aircraft that can handle more stuff.
More: Wing Blog, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, CNET, The Messenger, TechCrunch, and DroneDJ
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon plans a paid version of Alexa by June 2024, with an AI-powered version of Alexa, but internal politics and technical issues plague the project — - Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant. — The new plan would use an upgraded, AI-powered version of Alexa.| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Amazon now lets US users create AI-generated backgrounds using Alexa voice prompts on the second-gen Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Omni QLED Series — Amazon is officially rolling out the ability to create AI-generated images on Fire TV devices. Starting today, the feature is available …
More: The Verge, ZDNet, About Amazon, TechHive, TechRadar, SlashGear, 9to5Toys, Android Central, Cord Cutters News, and Digital Trends
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