Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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.
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 (Reuters)
Reuters:
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 …
Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)
Daniela Dib / Rest of World:
Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu — A large community of catalog saleswomen are selling items from the Chinese platform. — • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
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)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
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 — In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need …
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 (Federal Trade Commission)
Federal Trade Commission:
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
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 (GovTech)
GovTech:
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 …
Internal memo: Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone said the Tyson-Paul boxing bout peaked at 65M concurrent viewers, rivaling some of the most-watched sporting events (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Internal memo: Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone said the Tyson-Paul boxing bout peaked at 65M concurrent viewers, rivaling some of the most-watched sporting events — – Mike Tyson and Jake Paul faced off in heavily anticipated bout — Users complained on social media of difficulty watching fight
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 (Ben Quinn/The Guardian)
Ben Quinn / The Guardian:
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 — Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers
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 (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
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
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 (Gavin Anderegg/anderegg.ca)
Gavin Anderegg / anderegg.ca:
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.
