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Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019 — - Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team
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Threads: @georgescriban, @alex.stamos, @barrebull, @andy_jabbour, and @mnownews
Mastodon: @simontsui@infosec.exchange, @reverseics@infosec.exchange, @SteveBellovin@mastodon …, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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LinkedIn: Andrew Thompson and Ann Johnson
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple opens pre-orders for the Vision Pro, which has an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage options — Apple today finally shared additional tech specs for its Vision Pro headset following the start of pre-orders in the United States.
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LinkedIn: Chris Figueroa and Franco L. Casiean
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk's xAI secured $500M in commitments out of $1B and is aiming for a $15B to $20B valuation; source: X investors are invited to invest in xAI — - Grok maker aims for valuation of at least $15 billion — Investors in X, formerly Twitter, getting priority in round
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Bluesky: @andrewkjennings.com. X: @danprimack, @tweettsp, @elonmusk, @kyliebytes, and @walterisaacson
| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOJ and FTC are discussing which agency can investigate the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and which can probe companies for scraping web content — One of the most high-profile tech partnerships in years has drawn scrutiny from regulators, who currently can't pursue an investigation.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman has held talks to raise billions, including $8B to $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42, to set up a network of factories to manufacture chips — - Push reflects concern about potential semiconductor shortage — Project would involve working with major chipmaking companies
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17 — Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. — On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced …
More: elists.isoc.org, CircleID, On my Om, and LWN.net
Mastodon: @nonsequitur@mastodon.ie and @zebpalmer@syringa.social
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
YouTube Head of Gaming Leo Olebe was among the 100 employees that Google laid off from YouTube this week — When Google's YouTube video division confirmed 100 layoffs on Wednesday, Leo Olebe, who was head of YouTube Gaming, was among those let go. — Olebe was a longtime gaming executive … | Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Flexport raised $260M from Shopify, one of its biggest shareholders; Shopify sold its money-losing logistics unit to Flexport in exchange for equity in May 2023 — Flexport is raising $260 million from e-commerce software giant Shopify, one of its biggest shareholders …
More: FreightWaves and Crunchbase News
Threads: @ranreichman. X: @trace_cohen, @2112power, @rogoswami, @theo_wayt, @blader, @clark_al, @typesfast, @asanwal, @typesfast, @benf92, @lessin, @typesfast, @typesfast, @lessin, and @tobi
| Joy Lo Dico / Financial Times: |
How urban planners in Barcelona and others are using supercomputers and AI to create digital twins of their cities to address issues like traffic congestion — Digital city-building has become a legitimate part of urban planning, helping to mirror the present — and map the future| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Rabbit's R1 will use Perplexity AI's tech to answer user queries; the first 100K buyers of the $199 device get one year of Perplexity Pro, worth $200, for free — One of the standout gadgets of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the rabbit r1, will use Perplexity AI's tech to answer user queries …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, TechRadar, BGR, MobileSyrup, Engadget, and Tom's Guide
Mastodon: @hellotycho@mstdn.social. X: @perplexity_ai, @aravsrinivas, @rabbit_hmi, @scobleizer, @alexisohanian, @jessechenglyu, and @gartenberg
LinkedIn: Dmitry Shevelenko and Emil Protalinski
| Piotr Lipinski / Reuters: |
The EU Commission is seeking feedback on concessions Apple offered, including opening its Tap to Pay tech to third-party wallets for 10 years, to settle a probe — The European Commission is seeking feedback from rivals and customers on concessions Apple (AAPL.O) offered … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out audio and video calling to Android, after launching on iOS in October 2023; all users can receive calls, but only Premium subscribers can place them — Elon Musk's own social network X is rolling out the ability to make audio and video calls directly from the app to its Android client.
More: X, Business Today, Engadget, The Verge, Mashable, Android Headlines, Android Central, Thurrott, PhoneArena, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, Android Authority, Techpoint Africa, Times of India, Stock Market News, English Jagran, Benzinga, Neowin, and Phandroid
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