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Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: the $1,999 RTX 5090, the $999 RTX 5080, the $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and the $549 RTX 5070, available from January  —  Nvidia is officially announcing its RTX 50-series GPUs today.  After months of leaks and rumors, the next-generation RTX Blackwell GPUs …

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update “in the coming weeks” that “will further clarify” when it is summarizing notifications  —  Apple has said it will update, rather than pause, a new artificial intelligence (AI) …

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the Philippine president's office and stole sensitive data as part of a yearslong, broad espionage campaign  —  - Some stolen documents related to dispute over South China Sea  — Most of the hacks took place from early 2023 to June 2024

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed  —  Meta AI put a Redditor into “an endless maze of mirrors” as part of a new AI feature it is testing.

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung schedules its next Galaxy Unpacked event for 10AM PT on January 22 in San Jose, where Galaxy AI updates, the Galaxy S25 lineup, and more are expected  —  After plenty of leaks and rumors, we're officially entering Samsung's lead-up to the Galaxy S25 launch date …

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Samsung announces new Galaxy Book5 Pro and Book5 360 laptops with Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra chips, available in the US, the UK, Canada, and more in February  —  Samsung has announced new Galaxy Book 5 Pro and 360 laptops featuring the NPU-packing (but not CoPilot Plus-qualifying) …

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: CrowdStrike, whose botched software update caused a global IT outage in July 2024, has more than recovered the $30B in market value it shed after the crisis  —  Cyber security company has more than recovered the $30bn in market value it shed after the crisis

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms”  —  ByteDance's Douyin, PDD's Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu have promised to address issues related to the misuse of algorithms

Bismah Malik / Inc42: Sources: Reliance writes off its $200M investment in Bengaluru-based hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, as CEO Kabeer Biswas looks to sell Dunzo for $25M-$30M  —  SUMMARY  —  Dunzo cofounder and CEO Kabeer Biswas as per our sources is leading talks with high net worth individuals and family offices for an acquisition deal

Max Levy / Denver Post: Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill, who founded the publishing software company Quark before becoming an influential LGBTQ+ activist  —  “He has helped lead the fight against HIV-AIDS, laid the groundwork for marriage equality and so much more”

The Verge: What to expect at CES 2025: TVs with AI features, laptops built around Nvidia's new 50-series discrete GPUs, Matter smart home devices, and more  —  It's time for the biggest tech show of the year.  CES 2025 officially kicks off next week, with most of the industry's biggest names gathering …

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD's sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily  —  Small-scale telecommunications networks and utilities on a remote Pacific island are up against what US intelligence agencies say is an unprecedented Chinese cyberwar plan.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable, passed away after a battle with cancer; he previously held a number of roles, including president of RSA  —  Longtime entrepreneur and cybersecurity executive Amit Yoran passed away Friday after a battle with cancer.

Jacqueline Sweet / The Spectator World: Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji  —  An Elon Musk fan in Fiji tricks the world  —  The AI avatar for the Adrian Dittmann X account, left, and Adrian Dittmann appearing …

Kamya Pandey / MEDIANAMA: A look at India's draft DPDP Rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18  —  The newly released draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025 say that online platforms must check the age …

Financial Times: Industry insiders hope the success of Black Myth: Wukong, which earned ~$1.1B from nearly 25M copies, will rekindle Chinese gaming investments after a crackdown  —  As Beijing eases regulations, developers are tooling up to produce big-budget titles with international appeal

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite  —  Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend.  —  But it was chaos for thousands …

Eli Tan / New York Times: Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring an industry of faith-based tech companies that offer AI tools to do theological research and write sermons  —  Rabbi Josh Fixler at Congregation Emanu El in Houston worked with a data scientist to create his experimental “Rabbi Bot.”

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out AI tools without upsetting creators, and more; YouTube has paid $70B to partners in the past three years  —  Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals

The Block: The GMCI Meme index, which tracks leading memecoins by market cap, delivered 320% returns in 2024, outpacing AI at 91% and the top 30 cryptocurrencies at 88%  —  - The GMCI Meme index represents broader market trends rather than specific token performance.  — The following is an excerpt …

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: Alibaba Cloud partners with 01.AI, the Beijing-based AI unicorn founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, to set up an “industrial large model laboratory”  —  Alibaba Cloud signs a deal with start-up 01.AI to develop AI model solutions for business clients

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: Apple and Google removed over six VPN apps, including Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, from their Indian app stores after the government issued removal orders  —  More than half-a-dozen VPN apps, including Cloudflare's widely-used 1.1.1.1, have been pulled from India's Apple App Store …

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority: Google's Nest Hub and Nest Audio have stopped responding to basic commands, like questions on the weather and time, for many users over the past few days  —  Update: Google says the issue is being investigated but should be resolved for most users.  —  TL;DR

Bloomberg: Car rental app Turo, which uses a risk algorithm to screen drivers, was used to book trucks in both fatal New Year's Day incidents in Las Vegas and New Orleans  —  - Startup uses risk algorithm to determine price of each rental  — Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas, used Turo vehicles