VW Group had sensitive info, including GPS coordinates, of 800K+ electric vehicles exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before it was alerted — The sensitive information of VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV owners was left exposed on an unprotected and misconfigured cloud storage system for months
The technology of passkeys is elegant, but the complexities of syncing them to password managers can contribute to platform lock-in and make them less usable — It's that time again, when families and friends gather and implore the more technically inclined among them to troubleshoot problems …
Netflix's foray into live sports caps off a strong year, with its share price up 90%+ in 2024, but the stock's rich valuation sets a high bar for follow-up act — Foray into live sports caps a strong year, but stock's rich valuation sets a high bar for follow-up act
Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue — President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …
Finland, Canada, the US, and other countries are testing tech for passport-free travel, including facial recognition and a “digital travel credential” — Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport's days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.
Sydney-based Sitemate, which offers no-code software tools for industries like infrastructure and utilities, raised a AU$27.5M Series A at a ~AU$150M valuation — Sydney-founded Sitemate is making an impact on solar renewable sites in New Zealand, nuclear projects in Switzerland, and electric vehicle production in Detroit.
Meta expects AI-generated characters to “generate and share content” and “over time, exist on our platforms”, similarly to regular accounts — US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement
Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP — A holiday blowup over immigration between Trump's tech advisers and the GOP base suggests the road may be littered with obstacles.
DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-V3, a mixture-of-experts model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top open-source models — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
Microsoft adds Copilot to Microsoft 365 in Australia and Southeast Asia and raises 365's price, a sign of how it aims to turn a profit from its AI investments — The tech company has made Copilot part of its 365 subscription service in several markets and raised prices
US federal lobbying disclosure forms reveal how Meta, with a team of 14 directly employed lobbyists, led efforts to block the passage of KOSA in Congress — The billionaire and his company needed Speaker Mike Johnson's help to stop legislation that would have regulated social media for the first time.
Analysis: roughly two-thirds of 39 public digital health companies have lost value in 2024, while the Nasdaq is up 32% — If the Covid era marked a boom time for digital health companies, 2024 was the reckoning. — In a year that saw the Nasdaq jump 32%, surpassing 20,000 for the first time this month …
Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week; it averaged just $2.5B per day in November 2024 — - The weekly total is 124% higher than the previous week's total. — The following is an excerpt from The Block's Data and Insights newsletter.
Filing: Apple asks to participate in Google's upcoming US search antitrust trial, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements — Apple (AAPL.O) has asked to participate in Google's upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google …
Iran claims it will lift its ban on “certain widely used foreign platforms”, naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps to be unblocked — - Allowing WhatsApp and Google Play may placate opponents — Major social networking sites have been blocked for years
The Animation Guild ratifies a contract with big studios, without AI demands such as letting members opt out of using AI or having AI train on their work — The Animation Guild has ratified its contract with the major studios, despite concerns from some about protections against artificial intelligence.
A viral YouTube video from MegaLag claims PayPal's Honey browser extension often doesn't show users the best coupon codes and steals creators' affiliate revenue — Honey is a popular browser extension owned by PayPal that's at the center of a big new controversy.
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January — Consortium likely to include Elon Musk's SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime — Disney and Netflix are expanding in the popular Japanese cartoon genre — At first glance, Sony Group Corp.'s $1.2 billion acquisition …
Tether says it is on track for a record $10B net profit in 2024 and expects to invest $2.5B to $3B in 2025 across AI, finance, biotech, education, and mining — Exit Content Preview … - Ardoino says the company is tracking toward a record $10 billion in net profits this year.
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November — Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month …
Grindr will cover as much as $300,000 in fertility, surrogacy, and adoption costs for staffers who have been at the company for 18+ months, starting next year — - Few companies cover all costs associated with family building — Dating app will grow headcount ‘moderately’ in 2025, CEO says
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, with the ability to “reason over the most complex problems” in fields like programming and physics — Google has released what it's calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it's in the experimental stages, and from our brief testing …
The US FAA prohibits drone flights over several parts of New Jersey, as public hysteria over sightings of possible drone activity continues to persist — The US Federal Aviation Administration prohibited drone flights over several parts of New Jersey as public hysteria over sightings continues to persist.
Flipboard launches Surf, an app to create custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, in beta on iOS, Android, and iPadOS — Fourteen years ago, when the iPad was new and bursting with unfulfilled promise, an app called Flipboard debuted.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of...
