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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
macOS 15 Sequoia appears to have broken security tools made by CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and others; CrowdStrike had to delay support for Sequoia — On Monday, Apple released its latest computer operating system update called macOS 15, or Sequoia.
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Forums: r/mac, r/crowdstrike, r/MacOS, r/MacOS, and MacRumors Forums
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
A US FTC report on the data practices of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies finds “vast surveillance” of consumers to monetize their information — Meta, YouTube and other sites collected more data than most users realized, a new report by the Federal Trade Commission finds.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU warns Apple about required iOS and iPadOS interoperability with third-party apps and connected devices under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply — - EU announces efforts to pull Apple into compliance with rules — Apple previously said it would hold back future tech from EU
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
A look at the two “specification proceedings” that the EU has opened on Apple under the DMA, instructing Apple on how to comply with interoperability provisions — The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (DMA) … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils Password Manager PIN to let Chrome users sync passkeys across Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and Android devices, with iOS support coming soon — The search giant is introducing a Google Password Manager PIN that allows users to securely save and synchronize passkeys for use across Windows …
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| Bloomberg: |
Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a ~$920K daily fine after an update made X accessible; X says service restoration was “inadvertent” — - Judge orders $920,000 daily fine if site isn't blocked — Regulator says it got help from Cloudflare to restrict access
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches an AI-powered video generator, available for some US advertisers in beta, which turns a single product image into a few-second video showcase — Like its rival, Google, Amazon has launched an AI-powered video generator — but it's only for advertisers at the moment, and somewhat limited in what it can do.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
YouTube says it has “widely rolled out Pause ads to all advertisers” after a “strong advertiser and strong viewer response” and piloting Pause ads from 2023 — It's been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button …
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Disney plans to stop using Slack in most units by the end of 2024, after a hacking group leaked 1TB+ of its data, including 44M Slack messages, in July — The company said in a memo that most of its businesses would stop using the tool by the end of this year
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Sources: Concord's game director steps down, as Firewalk, the studio behind the PlayStation flop, is left in limbo, with some staffers expecting mass layoffs — Ryan Ellis was the hero shooter's game director at Firewalk Studios — It's been two weeks since Sony announced it was taking …
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| Reuters: |
Alibaba releases 100+ open-source models under Qwen 2.5, its LLM released in May 2024, ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters, and unveils a text-to-video model — Chinese technology company Alibaba (9988.HK) released on Thursday new open-source artificial intelligence models and text-to-video AI technology …
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| Reuters: |
Intel says it has no plans to sell its stake in self-driving tech company Mobileye; MBLY, down 69% in 2024, jumped 14%+; Intel had an 88.3% stake on December 30 — Intel (INTC.O) said on Thursday it had no plans to sell its majority stake in Mobileye Global (MBLY.O), sending shares of the self-driving tech firm up more than 13%.
More: Bloomberg, Benzinga, The Motley Fool, TipRanks Financial, SiliconANGLE, Globes Online, and ZeroHedge News. Forums: r/hardware
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple seeds the first iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 public betas, with a Siri redesign and some Apple Intelligence features, like Writing Tools — Apple today released the first public betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, allowing non-developers to test the software ahead of its October launch.
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| Julia King / Fierce Network: |
Nvidia launches AI Aerial, which integrates AI into the radio access network and could allow telcos to run third-party AI apps at the network's edge — - Nvidia thinks that AI could be the answer to the very problems it is causing — AI-RAN will leverage billions of data points …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
US DOJ lawyers told a court that Google employees liberally labelled emails as “privileged and confidential”, a strategy that may backfire in the antitrust case — Google employees liberally labeled their emails as “privileged and confidential” and spoke “off the record” … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: server CPU design startup Ampere is exploring a potential sale; Ampere was reportedly valued at $8B in a SoftBank proposed minority investment in 2021 — - Ampere has been working with an adviser amid takeover interest — Firm valued at $8 billion before 2022 confidential IPO filing| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes its latest AI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, available to all ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu customers — OpenAI has made its latest AI models, o1-preview and o1-mini, available to all ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Edu customers. These models, designed …
More: ZDNET, Business Insider, The GitHub Blog, The Decoder, and The Information
X: @openai, @mariorod1, @openainewsroom, and @ashtom
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Fal.ai, a developer-focused platform for media-generating AI models, raised a $9M seed and a $14M Series A from Kindred Ventures, a16z, First Round, and others — Fal.ai, a dev-focused platform for AI-generated audio, video, and images, today revealed that it's raised $23 million in funding …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Layoffs.fyi: tech companies have laid off ~137,000 people since January 2024; Indeed.com: software development job postings are down 30%+ since February 2020 — Employment for software engineers has cooled as resources shift toward developing artificial intelligence
More: San Francisco Business Times and Channel Futures
X: @carlquintanilla. LinkedIn: Milton Pedraza. Forums: Hacker News, r/Layoffs, r/technology, r/REBubble, and r/bayarea
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI's $6.5B funding round, which nears completion as the company decides on backers, is oversubscribed with excess demand in the billions of dollars — - Thrive to lead round; Sequoia not involved in new financing — Oversubscribed deal for AI leader is nearing final stages| Curtis Heinzl / Bloomberg: |
Datamaran, which has an analytics platform for clients to monitor risk and track adherence to ESG regulations, raised a $33M Series C from Morgan Stanley funds — The company said in a statement on Thursday that it will use part of the proceeds to advance its generative AI capabilities.
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