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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| 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 …
More: Amnesty International …, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Hacker News, The Record, BleepingComputer, Metacurity, Amnesty International, Balkan Insight, CyberScoop, Reuters, Washington Post, Infosecurity, and Associated Press
Bluesky: @josephcox, @zackwhittaker, and @jsrailton
X: @amnestytech, @darkostojilovic, @donnchac, and @amnestytech
Forums: r/technews and r/serbia
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, The Register, Engadget, PCMag, European Commission, Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, Politico, Bloomberg, and CNBC
X: @esatelecoms, @timopesonen1, @kubiliusa, @defis_eu, and @jcdamos
| 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 …
More: Redmond Pie and Carscoops
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry sells its beleaguered cybersecurity business, Cylance, to Arctic Wolf for $160M, after paying $1.4B to acquire Cylance in 2018 — Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry's beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant write-down from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid …
More: SecurityWeek, Arctic Wolf, Benzinga, and Globe and Mail
| 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
More: Reuters, Thurrott, Forbes, TechSpot, and Barron's Online
| 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.
More: The Information, The Verge, Senate.gov, Engadget, About Amazon, Associated Press, UPI, Axios, Retail TouchPoints, Forbes, Quartz, and Washington Post
| 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
| John Melloy / CNBC: |
At a meeting with Trump, Masayoshi Son says 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 … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on AI's potential, working with Intel, TSMC, and Samsung, the Trump admin, China and IP licenses, the CHIPS Act, OpenAI, and more — The head of the ubiquitous chip design firm on the ‘breathtaking’ pace of AI. … Earlier this month, I teased an upcoming interview …
More: Windows Central
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city's Department of For-Hire Vehicles — Drivers for the ride-hailing company Empower protest outside a City Council meeting in Washington, D.C.Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Workers are adopting generative AI faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so; a survey says ~25% of the US workers already use the tech weekly — Staff are adopting large language models faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so
More: The Decoder
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