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The UK's Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, and plans to expand it in 2025 — - Ofcom released first guidelines for Online Safety Act — Rules require firms to remove illegal content or face fines
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Search available to all logged in users, not just subscribers, and says ChatGPT Search can be set as their browser's default search engine — The product, called ChatGPT Search, will be available to any user who is logged in with an account for the chatbot across …
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| Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: |
The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030 — Communications network is EU's most ambitious space project in a decade — Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme … | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite's tools to unlock a journalist's phone before infecting the device with malware — Authorities in Serbia have repeatedly used Cellebrite tools to unlock mobile phones so they could then infect them with potent malware …
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Forums: r/technews and r/serbia
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A researcher details a “jailbreak” of Reviver's digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmware to enable Bluetooth commands — Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI model that can create 2+ minute long clips in resolutions up to 4K, behind a waitlist as part of VideoFX — Google DeepMind, Google's flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video generation game — and it might just, at least for a little while.
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
US Senate investigation: senior Amazon execs disregarded internal warnings over the high rates of worker injuries due to concerns about Amazon's performance — A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.| John Melloy / CNBC: |
At a meeting with Trump, Masayoshi Son claims SoftBank will invest $100B and create 100K jobs in the US, largely via AI-focused jobs and infrastructure projects — WATCH NOW — Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son will announce a $100 billion investment in the U.S. over the next four years during …
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Bluesky: @stevekovach, @carter-hall, @emptywheel, and @makenakelly
X: @autismcapital and @pitdesi
Forums: r/news, r/politics, r/wallstreetbets, r/Economics, and Slashdot
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out live AI, live translations, and Shazam to Ray-Ban smart glasses for members of its Early Access Program — Meta just announced three new features are rolling out to its Ray-Ban smart glasses: live AI, live translations, and Shazam. Both live AI and live translation are limited …
More: TechCrunch, Meta, CNET, Reuters, TechRadar, and MIXED Reality News
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Reports: Israel-based Paragon, maker of Pegasus-rival Graphite, sold to US PE firm AE Industrial for ~$500M, a sum that may grow if profitability goals are hit — Paragon, an Israeli spyware maker that has largely kept a low profile in recent years, was acquired last week …
More: Globes Online, CTech, Haaretz, and Türkiye Today
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Snapchat plans to roll out a unified monetization program to pay influencers for ads placed in eligible Stories and Spotlight posts starting February 1, 2025 — Snapchat is tweaking how people earn money on the platform by introducing a new, unified monetization program.
More: TechCrunch, Snap Newsroom, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Arm and Qualcomm's chip licensing dispute heads to trial in Delaware, in a high-stakes battle set to last about a week over Qualcomm's $1.4B Nuvia acquisition — Legal fight that started with a $1.4bn acquisition has severely strained companies' relationship
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