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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)

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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)

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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)

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Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams (Bloomberg)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever (Wall Street Journal)

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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)

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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)

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Investigation: Microsoft offered the US government free cybersecurity upgrades in 2021, increasing government reliance on Microsoft due to high switching costs (ProPublica)

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Many Netflix viewers faced issues while watching the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight and the undercard bouts, including the stream glitching and losing sound (Dominic Patten/Deadline)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Emails from Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI show Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman as early as 2017, Sam Altman considered an ICO, and more (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)

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One year after Sam Altman was dramatically ousted and reinstated, OpenAI remains dominant as it continues to push ahead on impressive new products (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Palantir stock jumps 11% after announcing a move from the NYSE to the Nasdaq; its stock is up 50%+ since reporting better-than-expected earnings on November 4 (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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