Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans
Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27
Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue University with a degree in computer science.Madeleine Hordinski for The New York Times
Cruise complies with California DMV's request to halve its fleet, as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving its robotaxis in San Francisco
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following …
Cruise is complying with a California DMV request to cut its fleet by 50% as the regulator probes “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise robotaxis
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck.
Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the complex iPhone components and assembly, driving production to near zero
Chris Miller / The Atlantic :
Analysts and sources detail improving iPhone output in China despite COVID-19 issues; Foxconn's main Zhengzhou iPhone facility is now operating at ~70% capacity
Main Foxconn facility recovers to about 70% of capacity and wait times for iPhone Pro models shorten
TSMC begins mass producing 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also promises to build 2nm plants in Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. kicked off mass production of next-generation chips Thursday, ensuring the island remains …
Apple is doubly vulnerable to Chinese escalation against Taiwan, which could impact the iPhone's complex components and assembly, driving production near zero
Long before it reached your home, even before its tiny components were pieced together in an assembly plant …
Source: Pierre Omidyar's philanthropic organization Luminate handles Frances Haugen's PR in Europe; Omidyar donated $150K to Whistleblower Aid in 2020
Emily Birnbaum / Politico :
FTC, in coalition with 46 state AGs, plus Guam and DC, sues Facebook, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions were used to stifle competition
Agency challenges Facebook's multi-year course of unlawful conduct — The Federal Trade Commission today sued Facebook …
The CIA awards its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM; the project's expected value is in the “tens of billions”
going back to the ARPANET — was built by military contractors and privatized extensions of the National Security State. This is the way shit has always worked in Surveillance Vall...
Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, CEO of Signal, as he defends centralization as a necessary condition for Signal's widespread adoption, and for its ease of use
we love seeing it take the spotlight. Signal will be the right tool for some people, but for those of you who want the highest level of security without having to put your phone nu...
Facebook says, after an FBI tip, it took down several Pages and accounts pushing a fake left-wing news outlet made by people linked to Russian troll group IRA
New York (CNN Business)People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere …
Chris Larsen, a co-founder of Ripple, is paying for the installation of a private network of over 1,000 security cameras across San Francisco to fight crime
Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city's camera surveillance system might sound creepy.
Chat app Telegram says it's abandoning its TON blockchain project, after the SEC challenged the legality of its $1.7B ICO and delayed the network's launch
Telegram, the operator of the 400 million-strong messenger app, today announced that it has given up on its upcoming blockchain network …
150+ orgs, including Google and Facebook, back Tim Berners-Lee's Contract for the Web, pledging to guard the web from abuse or face removal from supporter list
The Web was designed to bring people together … John E Dunn / Naked Security : Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’ Tim Berners-Lee / New York...
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton invests $50M in newly-formed Signal Foundation, a non-profit that will maintain Signal app, and joins as its executive chairman
IN THE FOUR or so years since it launched, end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has become the security community's gold standard …