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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Amid the Salt Typhoon hacks, US officials recommend that Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers — Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
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Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/crypto, and Slashdot
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
The FBI and CISA give US telcos best practices to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain on their networks — - Officials added that they don't yet know the full scope of the intrusions, despite starting the investigation in late spring.
More: Cybersecurity …, Washington Post, The Record, Reuters, TechRadar, TechRepublic, CyberScoop, Cyber Daily, The Hacker News, CNN, ComputerWeekly.com, and Associated Press
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Mastodon: @aram@aoir.social, @thegibson@hackers.town, @da_667@infosec.exchange, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @JessTheUnstill@infosec …, and @mhoye@mastodon.social
X: @clary_co, @sbloomfield15, @arekfurt, @ericgeller, and @cisacyber
Forums: r/technology, r/signal, r/politics, r/conspiracy, and Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Spotify Wrapped, adding an AI podcast of users' 2024 Wrapped created with Google's NotebookLM summarizer, and a Your Music Evolution data story — Spotify Wrapped, the streamer's highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized …
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X: @spotistats, @zacbowden, @spotifynews, @spotify, and @google
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify says The Joe Rogan Experience was its top US podcast for the fourth year running, followed by Call Her Daddy, and 33%+ of the top 50 podcasts had video — Streamer says more than one-third of top 50 podcasts in U.S. are now available as video episodes| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says AI content was less than 1% of fact-checked election-related misinformation on its apps during major US, UK, Indian, Indonesian, and other elections — At the start of the year, there were widespread concerns about how generative AI could be used to interfere in global elections to spread propaganda and disinformation.
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Threads: @katienotopoulos, @andymstone, @katienotopoulos, and @kevinroose. X: @florian4gamers. Forums: r/technology
| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Ubisoft says it will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, but keep its servers on until June 3, 2025, and plans to lay off ~277 production team staff — Ubisoft will shut down its free-to-play shooter XDefiant, Ubisoft announced Tuesday. Servers will remain on until June 3, 2025 …
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Forums: r/gaming, r/GamingLeaksAndRumours, r/XDefiant, r/PS5, r/Games, and r/pcgaming
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google launches Veo, an AI video model for generating “high-quality” 1080p videos in visual and cinematic styles, to businesses, beating OpenAI's Sora to market — Veo, Google's latest generative AI video model, is now available for businesses to start incorporating into their content creation pipelines.| Tom Gerken / BBC: |
An interview with PlayStation co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino on AI in gaming, “preserving the human touch” in game development, Astro Bot, and more — PlayStation's boss says artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to “revolutionise” gaming …
More: PC Gamer, PlayStation LifeStyle, Eurogamer.net, MSPoweruser, IGN, Benzinga, TheGamer, Android Headlines, Polygon, Wccftech, Push Square, Gameranx, The Game Post, and Video Games Chronicle
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and r/PS5
| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple delays the mass production of a smart home-focused, display-equipped HomePod until after WWDC 2025 or Q3 2025, mainly due to software development — - The mass production schedule for the display-equipped HomePod has been delayed multiple times.
More: CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, Ming-Chi Kuo, Android Authority, The Mac Observer, BGR, Mashable, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, Cult of Mac, Supercharged, Benzinga, NewsBytes, and GSMArena.com. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
An artist shares his experience of turning to Replika's AI bot Lila for companionship, including giving Lila an AI friend by creating a digital copy of himself — Lila was created from the limited options available: female, blue hair, face “number two.” She was there on the next screen …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Tim Cook on generative AI, Apple Intelligence, outsourcing to OpenAI, why Apple's biggest contribution will be in health, ARM, the Vision Pro, and more — Much as the CEO seems awestruck by AI and his just-released Apple Intelligence, he's more convinced that the tech giant's health apps will define the company's legacy.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, and Cult of Mac
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
iVerify says its Mobile Threat Hunting tool, launched in May 2024, found seven Pegasus infections after scanning 2,500 devices, some owned by business leaders — The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS introduces Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database that promises high availability, strong consistency, and PostgreSQL compatibility — At its re:Invent conference, Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit today announced Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce says online Cyber Monday sales grew 3% YoY to $49.7B globally and just 2% YoY to $12.8B in the US; Adobe says US online sales grew 7.3% YoY to $13.3B — The figures are now in for consumer spending on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday …
More: Adobe, Shopify, WWD, Salesforce, Business Insider, CNN, MediaPost, Bloomberg, Fox Business, Retail Dive, PYMNTS.com, Chain Store Age, Media Play News, ABC7, Deseret News, and Hindustan Times. Forums: r/economy
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and best known for the firm's SpaceX and Anduril investments, steps down as a GP — Brian Singerman, one of the earliest employees of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, said on Tuesday that he's stepping down as a general partner.
More: The Information, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Scribe 2 review: smooth reading and writing experience, a new Premium Pen with a rubberized top eraser, and a svelte design, but relatively pricey — I'm not sure Amazon has done enough to justify charging more for its writing tablet. — Deputy Editor, Reviews — My hand is cramping.
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| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
In an interview, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue said that he is “a little worried” about the strong concentration of top open-source AI models from China — China's open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and “reasoning.”
More: CCN.com, Business Insider, and Inc
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple and Baidu are working to add AI features to Chinese iPhones but have clashed over model training data, and the models have struggled with prompts — Apple and Chinese search giant Baidu are working together to add artificial intelligence features to iPhones sold in China …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Times of India, and DigiTimes
| Elaine Moore / Financial Times: |
AI's rise has made job interviews more grueling, due to a rise in technical tests, essays, and assignments, as recruiters struggle to find the right candidates — Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
CISAC study: generative AI risks costing music artists ~20% of their revenues by 2028; Abba's Björn Ulvaeus warns that AI “has the power to cause great damage” — ‘Very unfair’ for tech companies to use artists' work without paying them, says pop legend and head of advocacy group
More: CISAC, Music Business Worldwide, and Music Ally
| Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: |
NXP and Taiwanese TSMC affiliate Vanguard break ground on a $7.8B plant in Singapore to make 130nm to 40nm chips and are already working on phase two expansion — - NXP says expansion of JV with VIS in Singapore is ‘in plan’ — The Dutch firm is also building a Chinese chip supply chain
More: eeNews Europe, NXP Semiconductors, and DigiTimes
| Timothy Gardner / Reuters: |
Meta is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers, as it plans to add one to four gigawatts of US nuclear generation capacity starting in the early 2030s — Meta (META.O) said on Tuesday it is seeking proposals from nuclear power developers to help meet its artificial intelligence …
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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @caseynewton. Threads: @andymstone. LinkedIn: Trey Lauderdale. Forums: r/news
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
District of Columbia AG sues Amazon over allegedly violating consumer laws by making slower deliveries to Prime users in historically lower-income neighborhoods — The District of Columbia's attorney general said the company deliberately outsourced Prime member deliveries in certain ZIP codes.
More: CNBC, Engadget, Washington Post, Associated Press, and Office of Attorney General …
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU plans to crack down on Asian online retailers like Temu and Shein that largely evade custom checks, possibly by taxing their e-commerce revenue — Brussels considering a tax to slow surge of goods sold on sites that evade custom duties and checks| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Netflix says Netflix Japan passed 10M+ subscribers in H1 2024 and has doubled its subscriber base in the past four years thanks to Japanese-language programming — Netflix's (NFLX.O) subscribers passed 10 million in Japan in the first half of this year with the streaming firm's Japanese …
More: PhoneArena, The Asahi Shimbun, and The Mainichi
| Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times: |
Romans and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb's planned two-night Colosseum experience for up to 32 guests in May 2025, saying it will demean a cultural treasure — An initiative by officials at the monument in a partnership with Airbnb has prompted an outcry among those who feel it will demean a cultural treasure.Sponsor Posts
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