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November 23, 2024, 6:25 PM

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New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment …
New York Times:
Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies  —  Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security …
Christine Lemmer-Webber / Dustycloud Brainstorms:
ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a “credible exit”  —  Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular …
Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5  —  Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges  —  Meta's Threads is losing ground …
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
A US Chamber of Commerce email shows the Biden administration could add up to 200 Chinese chip companies to a trade restriction list as soon as next week  —  The Biden administration is set to unveil new export restrictions on China as soon as next week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told members in a Thursday email.
More: The Verge
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A Texas jury awards Netlist $118M in damages from Samsung in a patent lawsuit, after finding Samsung made and sold infringing DRAM products to customers  —  A federal jury in Marshall, Texas, on Friday awarded computer memory company Netlist (NLST.PK)$118 million in damages from Samsung Electronics …
More: Reuters
Associated Press:
SCOTUS agrees to hear a challenge against the FCC's $8B-per-year program to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries, and rural areas  —  The Supreme Court on Friday stepped into a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone …

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