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.
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)
Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:
Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits; a Texas researcher claims someone is impersonating him to make the submissions and smear him — GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects.
Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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 (Morgan Meaker/Wired)
Morgan Meaker / Wired:
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 — Aura Salla was once the tech giant’s top lobbyist in Brussels. Now, her presence as a regulator in the European Parliament is proving controversial.
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)
Nandagopal Rajan / The Indian Express:
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 — ‘No other platform can touch our power performance per watt. That’s the tangible benefit to users,’ Tom Boger, Vice President of Mac Product Marketing at Apple, said.
Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs (ProPublica)
ProPublica:
Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs — Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Failures — Raising the Bar: President Joe Biden asked tech companies to “raise the bar on cybersecurity.”
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)
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
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 — There’s a broad expectation the president-elect will reverse attempts to craft rules that put safety ahead of maximum speed in developing the technology.
Many viewers for the undercard bouts before the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight on Netflix faced issues, including the stream glitching and losing sound (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Many viewers for the undercard bouts before the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight on Netflix faced issues, including the stream glitching and losing sound — From nearly the start of the undercard bouts from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TXm the streamer has been freezing, losing sound and proving slow to reload.
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+ (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
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.
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 (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
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
