New York Times: How Russia uses specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds, and middlemen in China to buy Cisco and other Western tech to maintain its economy — Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained …
Read MoreCarly Page / TechCrunch: The FBI, UK, Germany, and more seize the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang ALPHV, or BlackCat; the US also seized “several” other ALPHV sites — An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV,
Read MoreThe Sony WF-1000XM5 are the latest in Sony’s reputed lineup of premium earbuds. If you are looking for earbuds that let you immerse in your music for hours, then you’ll find that Sony occupies some top slots in our recommendation list for the best earbuds. Alongside Sony is Samsung, which sells some of the most
Read MoreThe Apple Watch Series 9 is pretty similar to the last-gen Series 8, though it does come in a new pink shade. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In case you haven’t heard, Apple is halting Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US due to a patent dispute.
Read MoreHannah Schoenbaum / Associated Press: Tech group NetChoice, representing TikTok, Meta, X, and others, sues Utah over its laws requiring kids and teens to obtain parental consent to use social media — A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies sued Utah on Monday over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children …
Read MoreApple News Plus now includes the popular sports outlet The Athletic.
Read MoreSandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Montenegro’s Appeals Court rejects a high court order to extradite Terra founder Do Kwon to the US or South Korea, after Kwon appealed, and orders a retrial — A previous decision that legal requirements for extradition had been met was rejected by the country’s Appeals Court. — Register Now
Read MoreFlagships continue to get better every year, but they also continue to get bigger and bigger. This ever-increasing race to pack the best technologies into a single phone has led us to phones we can’t easily hold and handle. If you’re looking for compact phones, your options are pretty limited. From the house of Samsung,
Read MoreSergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Comcast’s Xfinity discloses hackers breached a Citrix server in October 2023, two weeks after Citrix issued a patch, and stole data on 35,879,455 people — Comcast Cable Communications, doing business as Xfinity, disclosed on Monday that attackers who breached one of its Citrix servers …
Read MoreThe Verge There’s this picture from more than a decade ago that still goes viral on the web every once in a while. You’ve probably seen it: it was created by the venture capitalist Andrew Parker, and it compares a few dozen startups with subsections of Craigslist. Back then, Craigslist was all things to all
Read MoreBloomberg: As NYC’s $17.96+ minimum wage law for delivery apps begins, Uber and DoorDash update their apps to make tipping harder and, workers say, reduce their hours — – Base hourly pay of $17.96 prompts companies to pass on costs — City aims for smaller, more efficient, better paid workforce
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is a large screen foldable that picks up where the Galaxy Z Fold 4 left off. With a newer hinge and an updated SoC, the Fold 5 promises a refined experience over its predecessor without changing features consumers love. However, despite the good refinements, there’s one thing still missing
Read MoreRyan McMorrow / Financial Times: Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain cofounder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulation, Big Tech, and Biden’s EO — The computer scientist says it’s a mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI — and that regulators who do will only benefit vested
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google has quietly revived the ability to take ultrawide astrophotography shots. The feature only seems to be available on the Pixel 8 Pro for now. Google initially offered this feature in 2020 before killing it a few months later. The Google Pixel 8 series has been out for
Read MoreThe Verge / Photos by Getty Images and Courtesy of CSA The new smart home standard finally arrived this year. But poor implementation, significant backpedaling, and glacial progress have left it broken. Continue reading…
Read MoreThe 217-mph, 1,001-hp electrified Lamborghini Revuelto is so much fun it will make you lose the ability to speak properly.
Read MoreDeath Stranding Director’s Cut has just been hit by a small delay, pushing it from the end of 2023 to early 2024.
Read MoreApple has lost another member of Jony Ive’s old industrial design team as Peter Russell-Clarke moves on to a new company.
Read MoreAs researchers try to make sense of “open-label” placebos—fake drugs that proudly announce their fakeness—the mysterious effect is starting to show up beyond the world of medicine.
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Apple might reportedly bring MagSafe charging to the 2024 iPad Pro. This would allow for wireless charging on iPads and open the door to a variety of accessories. Apple’s iPhones have offered MagSafe functionality since 2020, using magnets to facilitate easier wireless charging while opening the door to magnetically
Read MoreBrendan Bordelon / Politico: A source and document shows RAND Corporation, backed by $15M from Dustin Moskovitz’s effective altruism-focused Open Philanthropy, helped craft Biden’s AI EO — Researchers from the RAND Corporation — which took more than $15 million this year from a group financed by a Facebook co-founder …
Read MoreApple is working on a software update to circumvent a ban on imports of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2.
Read MoreWith a whole host of excellent movies and TV show deals live in the Apple TV end-of-year sales, here are some of the best.
Read MoreSheila Dang / Reuters: Meta’s Oversight Board says Meta should not have removed two Israel-Hamas war videos, as they were valuable to showing human suffering, its first expedited case — Meta Platform’s (META.O) Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages …
Read MoreAn iPhone found at the bottom of a river still powers on despite spending months under water.
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