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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Sources: China-linked hackers penetrated deep into two big US ISPs and several smaller ones in recent months, using a zero-day flaw in Versa Networks software — Beijing's hacking effort has “dramatically stepped up from where it used to be,” says former top U.S cybersecurity official.
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LinkedIn: Alex Stamos and Brian Krebs
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/technology, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI demoed a breakthrough called Strawberry to US natsec officials; one of its top uses is to make training data for a flagship LLM codenamed Orion — In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries earlier this month, the answer almost certainly …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and r/technology
| Peter Kafka / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit — - Mark Zuckerberg runs Meta, one of the world's most valuable tech companies. — Why did he just send Congress a letter admitting that Meta has screwed up?
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is laying off ~100 people in its services group in a rare move, impacting Apple Books, News, and other teams, as part of a shift in priorities — Apple Inc. took the rare step of cutting about 100 jobs in its services group, part of a shift in priorities for the critical division … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Emmanuel Macron invited Pavel Durov to move Telegram to Paris in 2018; in 2017, a joint operation between French and UAE spies hacked Durov's iPhone — Pavel Durov had lunch with the French president six years ago. His phone was hacked the previous year by French and U.A.E. spies.
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| Victor Goury-Laffont / Politico: |
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Three child safety advocacy groups from the US, UK, and Canada say their outreach to Telegram to flag CSAM on the platform has largely been ignored — Telegram's CEO was arrested in relation to an investigation into an unnamed person involving claims of “complicity” in distributing child sexual abuse material.
More: Pixel Envy and Forbes
| Joanna Nelius / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a Google Meet AI feature that automatically takes notes during meetings conducted in spoken English, available to select Workspace customers — Google Meet's newest AI-powered feature, “take notes for me,” has started rolling out today to Google Workspace customers …
More: Google Workspace Updates, Android Police, Moneycontrol, Engadget, Thurrott, PhoneArena, NewsBytes, 9to5Google, and Tech.co. Bluesky: @palcu.net
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Cerebras launches the “world's fastest” AI inference service with “GPU-impossible performance”, with costs starting at $0.10 per million tokens, to rival Nvidia — Ambitious artificial intelligence computing startup Cerebras Systems Inc. is raising the stakes …
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
MakerDAO rebrands as Sky and debuts a new USDS stablecoin, but the token draws backlash after users noticed it allows the issuer to remotely freeze the asset — MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen said the feature won't be live when the USDS token goes live and the old DAI token will remain in circulation unchanged.| Bloomberg: |
Former staff of video games payments company Xsolla say in lawsuits that CEO Aleksandr Agapitov leans heavily on company revenue for his new, flashier lifestyle — Aleksandr “Shurick” Agapitov spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure his company's name - Xsolla … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will shut down Meta Spark, its third-party AR tools and content platform that launched in 2017, effective January 14, 2025, angering some creators — Creators are unhappy with Meta's decision on Tuesday to shut down its Spark platform, which allowed third parties to build augmented reality (AR) effects.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
How call centers in the Philippines' vast outsourcing industry are adopting AI tools to assist human operators, in an effort to stay competitive — The experiences of staff in the Philippines' outsourcing industry are a preview of the challenges and choices coming soon to white-collar workers around the globe.| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB, two of Africa's largest B2B e-commerce platforms, merge in an all-stock deal; the companies raised over $240M combined — Two of Africa's largest B2B e-commerce platforms, Wasoko and MaxAB, have finally completed the continent's much-talked-about merger, TechCrunch has learned.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Instagram now lets users add text to photos right from its post editor, rather than needing a separate app, and add more photos as stickers on top of a photo — Instagram will now let you add text to your photos right from the post editor, meaning you won't need to edit your photos in a separate app just to add some text.Sponsor Posts
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