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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 …
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US Cybercom Executive Director Morgan Adamski says Chinese hackers are positioning themselves in critical infrastructure in the event of a clash with the US — Chinese hackers are positioning themselves in U.S. critical infrastructure IT networks for a potential clash with the United States … | Barbara Booth / CNBC: |
A look at the disagreements in the US government over setting up a US Cyber Force, as the Pentagon formally asked Congress to reject the proposal in September — A recent Chinese cyber-espionage attack inside the nation's major telecom networks that may have reached as high as the communications … | Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk, as Trump's efficiency czar, is singling out ordinary federal staffers, including some with climate-related jobs, on X and unleashing his fans on them — As Trump efficiency czar, the billionaire is targeting employees by name on X—sparking pushback — Unlimited access across all platforms and devices.
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Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam and r/politics
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls — Malicious hackers have compromised potentially thousands of organizations by exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities found …
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| Reuters: |
An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans — OnlyFans gives women the chance to earn money by making porn. Sex traffickers also use the platform to abuse and exploit them, say police and prosecutors.
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Polymarket blocks users in France from placing trades, as the country's gaming regulator investigates the platform's compliance with local gambling laws — - Prediction marketplace Polymarket has restricted users in France from accessing its platform, according to a message shown when trying to access the site from the country.| Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang urged global cooperation and highlighted China's contributions to AI, as he accepted an honorary doctorate degree in engineering in Hong Kong — - CEO Jensen Huang highlights China's contributions to AI — Huang has voiced support for the incoming Trump administration| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: CoreWeave is aiming for a valuation of over $35B and is likely to target raising more than $3B in its US IPO that is expected to occur in Q2 2025 — Artificial intelligence cloud platform CoreWeave, is aiming for a valuation of more than $35 billion in its U.S. initial public offering … | 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 … | Justine Calma / The Verge: |
A UN task force proposes taxing crypto mining to raise funds for climate action and cites IMF research that says $0.045 per kWh used could raise $5.2B annually — A tentative proposal to tax cryptocurrency mining to raise funds for climate action took off during a United Nations climate conference that's set to come to a close today.| Financial Times: |
A look at challenges facing Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, including the company falling behind in the AI chip race and discontent from employees — Chip woes and labour unrest test the mettle of third-generation leader of South Korea's most valuable company| Moneycontrol: |
Q&A with Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha on raising a new $350M round, the narrative that quick commerce is hurting grocery stores, industry pay structure, and more — In a wide-ranging interview with Moneycontrol, Palicha asserted Zepto is an Indian company that is not controlled by Americans, unlike Amazon and Flipkart parent Walmart.
More: The Economic Times. X: @chandrarsrikant, @akhilpachori, and @chandrarsrikant. LinkedIn: Saurya Prakash Sinha
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases the first beta preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot+ PCs, including Click to Do, a feature similar to Google's Circle to Search — Microsoft is releasing the first preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot Plus PCs today. After a series of delays …
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X: @daniel_rubino and @tomwarren
LinkedIn: Medhaj Athilkar, Pavan Davuluri, and Yusuf Mehdi
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, r/windowsinsiders, and r/Windows11
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street — In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target …
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X: @alenapopova, @frankgr, and @a_greenberg
LinkedIn: Augusto Barros, Andy Greenberg, and Brian Krebs
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators — Anthropic, OpenAI's close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
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LinkedIn: Alan Knox, Kathrin Renz, Jason Demby, Bardia Nikpourian, Song Zhang, Ph.D., Scott Rosecrans, Krishna Rao, Swami Sivasubramanian, and Matt Garman. Forums: r/mlscaling
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