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December 8, 2024, 12:30 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images, to Grok; Aurora disappeared for some users after going live for a few hours  —  X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant.
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Apple faces a lawsuit accusing it of failing to implement a system that detects and removes CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021  —  A 27-year old former child sexual abuse victim photographed anonymously with her mother.  Her lawsuit against Apple claims …
More: The Verge
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launches a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials  —  The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM  —  ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …
Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps  —  I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro.  It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television.  Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
More: On my OmBluesky: @gigastaceyMastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange and @j12t@j12t.social
The Guardian:
An analysis of US FEC data: Trump received $273.2M in donations from tech executives and VCs, including $242.6M from Elon Musk, while Harris received $120.9M  —  FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant  —  An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Brian Krebs, who over the past 20 years has investigated and outed some of the worst cybercriminals, including the alleged Snowflake client hackers  —  In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge

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