Apple plans to halt Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week, to “preemptively” comply with an ITC patent ruling under US review until December 25
In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States.
Adobe and Figma end their $20B merger, announced in September 2022, over “no clear path” to EU and UK antitrust approval; Adobe owes Figma a $1B termination fee
Adobe (ADBE.O) on Monday shelved its $20 billion cash-and-stock deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma …
Hackers post 1.67TB of Insomniac Games' internal data, including for an upcoming Wolverine game, HR files, Slack screenshots, and a Marvel-Sony X-Men agreement
The Rhysida ransomware gang publishes 98 per cent of leaked data minutes after the ransom deadline passes - Wolverine game files included.
Google agrees to pay $700M and make app store changes, like offering an alternative billing system, to settle a 2021 antitrust lawsuit by 36 US states and DC
Agreement with coalition of states resolves antitrust litigation related to app store — Google parent Alphabet agreed …
In Google's $700M settlement for Utah et al v. Google, an estimated 102M eligible US Android users will split $630M, leaving $70M for other related claims
Google will pay consumers from all 50 states to settle a lawsuit over its app store practices — Tens of millions of U.S. consumers …
Sources: Apple is working on a software fix to avoid an Apple Watch ban in the US over Masimo's blood oxygen patents; Masimo says “the hardware needs to change”
- Company submitting software workaround to customs agency — Apple engineers are racing to develop fixes for patent issue
The FBI, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia seize ransomware gang ALPHV's dark web leak website; the US also seized “several websites” run by ALPHV
An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.
Comcast's Xfinity says hackers breached one of its Citrix servers in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people
Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta shouldn't have removed two Israel-Hamas war videos, as they were valuable to showing human suffering, its first expedited cases
Meta Platform's (META.O) Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages …
A US judge approves a previously announced settlement between Binance and the CFTC, asking Binance to pay $2.7B and Changpeng Zhao to pay $150M to the regulator
A U.S. court entered an order against crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, approving billions of dollars …
TikTok updates its app for tablets and foldable devices, adding streamlined navigation bars and a landscape mode, as the company seeks to compete with YouTube
TikTok has rolled out an update to enhance the app experience for viewers on tablets and foldable devices, the company announced on Monday.
Sources: Figma expects to finish 2023 with $600M+ in ARR, up 40%+ YoY, and is considering selling employee shares in a secondary offering in the coming months
Cory Weinberg / The Information :
Tech group NetChoice, representing TikTok, Meta, X, and others, sues Utah over its laws requiring kids and teens to obtain parental consent to use social media
A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies sued Utah on Monday over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children …
The failed Figma acquisition leaves Adobe with ~$6B in cash, likely to be used for AI development and stock buybacks; ADBE is up 75%+ in 2023 amid AI excitement
- Startups like Canva, Figma and OpenAI remain a risk to growth — Investors banking on AI to boost Adobe's customers and sales
TSMC Chair Mark Liu plans to retire in 2024, to be replaced by CEO C.C. Wei, set to become one of the most influential tech executives, if shareholders confirm
- C. C. Wei will become chairman of Apple's chipmaking partner — Wei is poised to lead the world's most advanced chipmaker
Game preservationists are digging into a 1.2TB cache of TestFlight data, from roughly 2012 to 2015, found on the Internet Archive, containing a ton of old apps
This likely contains every unencrypted binary submitted between 2012 and 2015 to the service — ‘terabytes of data’. … X: @teraleak : FULL TESTFLIGHT CDN ARCHIVES: 1. https://web.archive.org/... 2. htt...
Montenegro's Appeals Court rejects a high court's order to extradite Terra founder Do Kwon to the US or South Korea, after Kwon appealed, and orders a retrial
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk :
How Russia uses specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds, and middlemen in China to buy Cisco and other Western tech to maintain its economy
Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained … X: @auroraalmendral and @ldrogen X: Aurora Almendral / @auroraalmendral : Inc...
Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain cofounder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulation, Big Tech, and Biden's EO
The computer scientist says it's a mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI — and that regulators who do will only benefit vested interests X: @per_thorn , @hoofnagle , @anastasiabekt , and @drcoli...
As NYC's $17.96+/hour minimum wage law for delivery apps begins, Uber and DoorDash update their apps to make tipping harder and, workers say, work more for less
- Base hourly pay of $17.96 prompts companies to pass on costs — City aims for smaller, more efficient, better paid workforce
Flipboard plans to replace its entire social back end with ActivityPub and by April 2024 let any Flipboard user follow any fediverse account from within its app
Meta adds tongue tracking in an update to its OpenXR extension, letting developers bring the feature to the Quest Pro; Meta Avatars SDK hasn't yet added support
Quest Pro's face tracking now includes your tongue too. — In our review of Quest Pro last year, we pointed out how moving …
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan, in jail since August 2023 for allegedly leaking classified documents, uses ElevenLabs' AI voice clone tool for a campaign speech
Agence France-Presse :
Iran says a cyberattack disrupted services at ~70% of gas stations nationwide; a hacking group that Iran accuses of having links to Israel claims responsibility
Boston-based Lightmatter, which uses light for AI computing, adds $155M led by GV to its $154M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, taking its total funding to $420M+
The AI boom has lifted the startup's prospects. … Lightmatter said Tuesday that it raised $155 million in a deal led by GV …
An analysis of Amazon's AI review summaries shows they sometimes mischaracterize products or exaggerate negative feedback, which sellers say can threaten sales
Review summaries created by generative artificial intelligence also sometimes mischaracterize products.
OpenAI says its board can hold back the release of an AI model even if OpenAI's leadership says it's safe, and announces a new internal safety advisory group
The study of frontier AI risks has fallen far short of what is possible and where we need to be. Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI touts ‘scientific approach’ to measure catastrophic risk Matthias Bastian / ...
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into X, focusing on “illegal content and disinformation”, ad transparency, “deceptive design”, and data access
After OpenAI Head of Trust & Safety Dave Willner's exit in July 2023, OpenAI has broken up the team, whose vetting procedures some developers said took too long
Electric Coin, Zcash's main developer, says that Zooko Wilcox, the project's creator, will step down as CEO, and names former SVP of Growth Josh Swihart as CEO
[This is the medium where I post personal stuff. Hassan Shittu / Cryptonews : Zcash Creator Zooko Wilcox to Step Down as CEO of Electric Coin Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Zcash founder Zooko Wilc...
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers warn Biden that EU technology regulations are unfairly targeting US companies and not including many Chinese or EU companies
and insist that the E.U. administer their digital policies fairly. We cannot jeopardize the our national economy, diminish our global leadership, or jeopardize the security of consumers. https://www.r...
A source and a doc show that RAND Corporation, backed by $15M+ from Dustin Moskovitz's effective altruism-focused Open Philanthropy, helped craft Biden's AI EO
Brendan Bordelon / Politico :
SimSpace, which replicates organizations' tech stacks for cybersecurity training, raised $45M led by L2 Point Management, bringing its total funding to $70M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Sources: Amazon is negotiating with Diamond Sports Group, the biggest US regional-sports programmer, about an investment and a multiyear streaming partnership
Wall Street Journal :
The US DOT fines Southwest Airlines $140M, in addition to customer refunds, for the December 2022 meltdown caused by its antiquated flight scheduling software
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register :
An interview with Intel CVP and GM of Xeon Products Lisa Spelman on Intel's trajectory for datacenter processors, Sapphire Rapids development missteps, and more
Tobias Mann / The Register :
A US judge orders a Tesla driver to pay $23K+ for a 2019 crash that killed two, likely the first US felony case involving a partially automated driving system
Stefanie Dazio / Associated Press :
Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says hackers stole the personal data of 14.6M+ customers, like dates of birth, phone numbers, SSNs, and bank account numbers
Filing: VF Corp., which owns Vans, Supreme, JanSport, and The North Face, says a threat actor stole company data and is hurting order fulfillment; VFC drops 7%+
Carly Page / TechCrunch :
The US SEC sues New Jersey-based Tingo Group, which sells phones to African farmers, for allegedly booking billions in false transactions via two subsidiaries
Bloomberg :
Sources: Appin co-founder Rajat Khare used law firms to threaten US, UK, Swiss, Indian, and Luxembourg outlets to kill stories about the hack-for-hire industry
That includes Reuters, which recently reported that Appin is a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from the world's elite. … X: Lachlan Cartwright / @lachcartwright : NEW: A tech guru is wagin...
Data analytics company Alteryx agrees to be acquired by private equity firms Clearlake Capital and Insight Partners, in a deal valued at $4.4B including debt
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