Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law (www.techdirt.com)
Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)
Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports::Walmart is in talks to buy smart-television manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, a move that could bolster its advertising business and give it control of more than a fifth of the U.S. television market.
Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray (techcrunch.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist::Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames::undefined
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like (phys.org)
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like::Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue, and Uranus green—but a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually far closer in color than typically thought.
LockBit remorseless in latest children's hospital attack (www.theregister.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year (finance.yahoo.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year::The Facebook cofounder said the vast trove of photos and videos shared by users on Meta’s various services is larger than the web content crawled by search engines like those of Google and...
Microsoft endorses anti-LGBTQ online "child safety" bill KOSA night before Big Tech hearing (US Politics) (gazette.com)
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple's new App Store changes are a 'new low' (www.businessinsider.com)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple’s new App Store changes are a ‘new low’::Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek said Apple’s new changes to its App Store in the EU are a “masterclass in distortion.”
Big tech is thriving despite the layoffs (www.axios.com)
Big tech is thriving despite the layoffs::undefined
Fubo CEO 'Horrified' and 'Sad' About Peacock-Exclusive NFL Games | Cord Cutters News (cordcuttersnews.com)
Fubo CEO, David Gandler, is unhappy about Comcast’s decision to exclusively stream an NFL Wild Card game on Peacock....
Supreme Court rejects Epic v. Apple antitrust case (www.theverge.com)
Supreme Court rejects Epic v. Apple antitrust case::The Supreme Court has rejected petitions by Epic and Apple to reconsider a ruling on Fortnite’s iOS ban and potential changes to the App Store.
As Disney pushes towards streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
As Disney pushes towards streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024::Disney-owned animation studio Pixar is poised to undergo layoffs this year, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. While sources at the company
China claims it has cracked Apple Airdrop’s encryption to identify senders | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says (apnews.com)
How Google perfected the web (www.theverge.com)
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients (www.theregister.com)
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients::Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?
Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China (www.bloomberg.com)
Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Laptop Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China::Huawei Technologies Co.’s newest laptop runs on a chip made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., a teardown of the device showed, quashing talk of another Chinese technological breakthrough.
You probably don't need a VPN (www.spacebar.news)
We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever? (www.msn.com)
We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?::Users say excessive ads, bots and misinformation have sucked the fun out of sharing publicly.
As Bobby Kotick leaves Microsoft and Activision for good, an ex-employee describes how he once threatened to "have an employee killed" (www.windowscentral.com)
As Bobby Kotick leaves Microsoft and Activision for good, an ex-employee describes how he once threatened to “have an employee killed”::Today marks Bobby Kotick’s last day at the helm of Activision Blizzard King, a day this former employee chose to share an interesting tale of Kotick’s alledged behaviour while CEO of the...
Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business::Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.
Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter (gizmodo.com)
Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter::It would be a tangible demonstration of Einstein’s famous E = mc^2 equation.
Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price (arstechnica.com)
Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price::Data for almost 36 million customers now in the hands of unknown hackers.
