The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M+ of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pleads guilty
DOJ says H100 and H200 shipments were relabelled with a fictional brand to dodge export controls Institute for Progress : Should the US Sell Hopper Chips to China? Jasper Ward / Reuters : US Justice D...
An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target
When a notorious gang of Ukrainian cybercriminals hit a crucial database, the regulator quickly downplayed the breach. Bluesky: @bloomberg.com and @bykenarmstrong X: @noelleinmadrid , @liamvaughanbbg ...
Trump says a 25%+ tariff “must be paid by Apple” on iPhones not made in the US, and he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US
will other tech companies face the heat? Here's what the US President said The Economic Times : Trump threatens 25% tariff on iPhones not made in US, targets India production Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, ...
An Alabama man is sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking SEC's X account in 2024 and posting a false announcement that the SEC had approved bitcoin ETFs
And Exposed Cybersecurity Flaws Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt : Man Who Hacked SEC's X Account to Pump Bitcoin Gets 14 Months in Prison Owotunse Adebayo / Cryptopolitan : Hacker of the US SEC X account se...
The US DOJ tells a judge it will seek to force Google to divest its ad exchange and publisher ad server units and share real-time ad bidding data with rivals
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Memo: Google tells staff they can discuss the US DOJ's antitrust case, rescinding an earlier command, as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union
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Sources: the US NHTSA is losing ~10% of its workforce via firings and buyout offers, including nearly half of a small team that regulates autonomous vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is losing about 10 percent of its workforce through firings and buyout offers, according to people briefed on the cuts.
Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says was “post-trained to remove the China censorship”
DeepSeek-R1 is a fully open-weight large language model (LLM) … Unite.AI : DeepSeek's R1: A Useful Reminder Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Perplexity Releases Censorship-Free Version of China's De...
Hands-on with Operator: limited in what it can browse, can autonomously perform repetitive workflows, and can do lengthy tasks on its own with minimal prompting
but with hiccups Efe Udin / Gizchina.com : OpenAI launches Operator to carry out online tasks for users Mitra Sorrells / Engage Feed : OpenAI debuts “Operator” agent that can book travel Nicole Kobie ...
A January 17 filing shows the US NHTSA said it “upgraded” its April 2024 probe into Ford's BlueCruise, a driver assistance system used during two fatal crashes
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