Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams
- Mike Tyson and Jake Paul faced off in heavily anticipated bout — Users complained on social media of difficulty watching fight
Many Netflix viewers faced issues while watching the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight and the undercard bouts, including the stream glitching and losing sound
Netflix: [image] X: Peter Yared / @peteryared : I used to run tech for CBS which included streaming the Superbowl. Core issue for Netflix is that they operate their own CDN which is not built for live...
Sources: T-Mobile's network was among the systems hacked by the China-linked Salt Typhoon group, and some foreign telecommunications firms were also compromised
Carrier joins growing list of known victims, including AT&T and Verizon, of the major Chinese spying operation
Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky.
How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more
With its heavy reliance on China, Apple remains vulnerable to Donald Trump's tariffs. But Tim Cook likely has a plan to soften the blow.
US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying AI-driven attacks, targeted attacks on AI systems, and design flaws as core risks
A new series of recommendations from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is designed to enable cloud providers, AI developers …
Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs
- Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”
An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+
The operator of the cryptocurrency mixing service Helix was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday.
The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency received ~1.1M consumer complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from ~1.2M in FY 2023 and 3.4M+ in FY 2021
FTC releases annual Do Not Call Registry Data Book showing total reports about unwanted calls decreased further in 2024
Ukraine's drone suppliers are using US-based Auterion's tech to ramp up production of automated attack drones that are cheap and can evade electronic jamming
Kyiv's drone suppliers are ramping up production of computer-guided drones that are cheap and can't be electronically jammed
Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever
Investors see Trump victory as a positive with threat of TikTok ban looming in U.S. — TikTok parent ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion …
Emails from Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI show Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman as early as 2017, Sam Altman considered an ICO, and more
Brockman and Sutsekever worried about Musk becoming a dictator, which feels ... relevant. [image] X: @techemails : Elon Musk emails OpenAI cofounders September 20, 2017 [image] @techemails : Sam Altm...
Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stake in Pegatron's iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, India, forming a joint venture, and will run the daily operations
India's Tata Electronics has agreed to buy a majority stake in Taiwanese contract manufacturer Pegatron's only iPhone plant in India …
Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks
here's when Threads: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Smart glasses are the new hotness and I'm here for it. Everyone I know with the Meta Ray-Bans loves them and all the reports on the Orion glasses ...
Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu
and inadvertently contributing to the slow demise of the catalog industry. My latest https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : Mexico has a decades-old industry of door-to-door saleswomen. Now they'r...
Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems
Nvidia is grappling with new problems related to its much-anticipated Blackwell graphics processing units for artificial intelligence …
FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the “reoffending risks” of prisoners
OGRS & OASIS. Compared to many others systems they've been pretty well governed, and mostly in-house (two likely linked things!). This is not so much about magic prediction as a hollowing out of the...
A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a former Meta lobbyist turned EU Parliament member, who says the EU's Big Tech regulation went too far, too fast
https://www.wired.com/... ps. … Bluesky: Davor / @davor.fyi : “Salla is worried that recently passed laws—like the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, or the AI Act—may be stifling potenti...
A look at the challenges facing the Trump administration for regulating AI; policy analysts suspect Trump will dismantle or reshape the US AI Safety Institute
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg :
An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger on Apple's chip strategy, making big changes to the Neural Engine after the 2017 transformer paper, and more
Nandagopal Rajan / The Indian Express :
Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits; a Texas researcher claims someone is impersonating him to make the submissions and smear him
Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer : X: @alexocheema , @evildojo666 , and @trubetech . Forums: r/cybersecurity X: Alex Cheema / @alexocheema : Backdoor attempt on @exolabs through an innocent looking PR. R...
Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google's conservatism, ChatGPT's success, biological computers, and more
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica :
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