Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Apple Vision Pro review: disappointing for productivity, very narrow field of view, and the Guest User feature is bad, all making the device hard to recommend  —  No wireless.  Less space than a nomad.  Lame.  — CmdrTaco, Slashdot  —  My one small comfort in the cold Wisconsin winters … Source link

Over 100 websites, which facilitated organised illegal investments and task-based part time job frauds, were blocked following a recommendation of the Union Home Ministry. According to an official statement, these websites were being operated by overseas actors. The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), a wing of the Union Home Ministry, through its vertical National Cybercrime

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: On Meta’s Q4 call, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta’s next step in AI is “learning” from user data, and the dataset is larger than Common Crawl, raising privacy fears  —  Perhaps we shouldn’t trust a billionaire who’s been reckless with personal information that he wants to exploit yet again. Source link

Beeper Mini was launched on Tuesday as a new messaging app from the startup led by former Pebble Co-Founder Eric Migicovsky. The app allows users on Android smartphones to access Apple’s iMessage service for a small monthly fee. UK based startup Nothing recently launched a short-lived chat app that offered similar functionality, which was swiftly pulled

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: Google’s TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware  —  The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it. Source link

Paytm Chief Executive Vijay Shekhar Sharma met the Indian central bank on Monday to discuss plans to address regulatory concerns, two sources with direct knowledge of the talks said on Tuesday, days after the regulator imposed curbs on its banking affiliate. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) told Paytm Payments Bank last Wednesday to stop

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Sources: SMIC plans to use its stock of US and Dutch-made equipment to build 5nm Kirin chips designed by Huawei’s HiSilicon for smartphones, despite US curbs  —  SMIC and Huawei plan to make new 5nm processor, supporting Beijing’s goal for advanced semiconductors Source link

Android smartphones are at risk of malicious loan apps that were downloaded several million times from the Google Play store, according to details shared by security researchers. As many as 18 apps identified as ‘SpyLoan‘ malware were spotted on the store over the course of this year. These predatory lending apps are designed to collect

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Unit 42: the number of victims reported by ransomware leak sites grew 49% YoY in 2023, with ~50% in the US, despite authorities taking down some services  —  2023 was a big year for ransomware groups, even as law enforcement around the world continued to crack down on attackers. Source

YouTube is working on a native app for the Apple Vision Pro, according to the company. A month after YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix reportedly stated that they would not permit their apps to run on Apple’s first ‘spatial computer’, the Alphabet-owned video streaming platform has revealed its plans to launch a native YouTube app. The