Fossil is quitting smartwatches (www.theverge.com)
Fossil is quitting smartwatches::Fossil is going to stop making smartwatches. It was one of the most prolific companies creating Wear OS watches.
Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX? – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
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Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time (www.cnbc.com)
Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds (www.spokesman.com)
Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds::Three years after the coronavirus pandemic sent people to work from home in record numbers, U.S. employers are still struggling to get people back to the office.
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach (9to5mac.com)
UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach::Proposed amendments to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) which could ban Apple security updates worldwide are an “unprecedented overreach,”…
Thanksgiving 2023 security incident (blog.cloudflare.com)
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright (www.computerweekly.com)
GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. (www.vox.com)
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.::undefined
Zuckerberg seeks to place responsibility onto Apple and Google for underage social media use (www.cnn.com)
Zuckerberg seeks to place responsibility onto Apple and Google for underage social media use::Apple and Google, not social media companies, should be responsible for checking users’ ages to ensure they are not underage, Zuckerberg told lawmakers, suggesting it would be “trivial” for Congress to design legislation...
Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims (arstechnica.com)
Binance Code and Internal Passwords Exposed on GitHub for Months (www.404media.co)
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The Cult of AI - How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future (www.rollingstone.com)
As I listened to PR people try to sell me on an AI-powered fake vagina, I thought back to Andreessen’s claims that AI will fix car crashes and pandemics and myriad other terrors. In particular, I thought about his claim that because of this, halting AI development was akin to murder. It reminded me of another wealthy...
Sri Lanka's controversial internet safety law comes into force (www.bbc.com)
UK government announces Industry Transparency Code on Music Streaming (www.nme.com)
Tesla shares slide after judge voids Elon Musk's $56 billion compensation (www.cnbc.com)
Tesla shares slide after judge voids Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation::The compensation package the Tesla board gave CEO Elon Musk set a record for publicly traded corporations, a Delaware judge noted in her ruling.
The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block (www.tomshardware.com)
The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block::Floppy disks can finally make their way to the land of eternal slumber. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has abolished any requirement for applicants to use this ancient magnetic media...
23andMe’s fall from $6 billion to nearly $0 — a valuation collapse of 98% from its peak in 2021 (www.wsj.com)
23andMe’s fall from $6 billion to nearly $0 — a valuation collapse of 98% from its peak in 2021::undefined
OpenAI says mysterious chat histories resulted from account takeover (arstechnica.com)
User shocked to find chats naming unpublished research papers, and other private data.
Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days::Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to families of children harmed online at hearing (abcnews.go.com)
PayPal to Cut Around2,500 Jobs as Rivals Snag MarketShare (www.bloomberg.com)
PayPal to Cut Around2,500 Jobs as Rivals Snag MarketShare::PayPal Holdings Inc. will reduce its workforce by about 9% as Chief Executive Officer Alex Chriss, who took over in September, grapples with rising competition, profit pressures and a raft of analyst downgrades.
Silicon Valley Battles States Over New Online Safety Laws for Children - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
The uncomfortable truth about AI’s impact on the workforce is playing out inside the big AI companies themselves (finance.yahoo.com)
The uncomfortable truth about AI’s impact on the workforce is playing out inside the big AI companies themselves::Alphabet and Microsoft are investing big in AI. But that’s creating a murky future for many tech employees.