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A politician who investigated spyware breaches had his phone hacked using Pegasus spyware

A politician who investigated spyware breaches had his phone hacked using Pegasus spyware

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✨ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Government & Policy,Spyware,Pegasus,cybersecurity,NSO Group 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A European politician's phone was hacked using Pegasus spyware while he was serving on an investigative committee investigating abuses of the notorious surveillance tool, security researchers have confirmed. This has sparked a new debate about governments misusing spyware to gather information about their critics. The confirmed phone hacking of Greek journalist and former politician Stelios Kologlou during 2022 and 2023 marks the first time a member of the European Parliament's PEGA committee, charged with investigating phone spyware attacks by European governments, has…
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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn’t

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn’t

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: You may have heard about 25 Gbit symmetrical internet in Switzerland. This is often cited as the fastest dedicated (non-shared) residential connection in the world. However, did you ever wonder why Switzerland has such fast internet at a reasonable price while the United States and other countries like Switzerland’s neighbor Germany are falling behind?What is the fundamental difference between the countries that leads to such a stark difference in internet speeds and prices?Free markets, regulation, technology, or all three?Let’s take a closer look at the…
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Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC,AI chips,Anthropic,nvidia,OpenAI,Samsung ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Last April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was considering the idea of ​​producing its own AI chips as a way to respond to the chip shortage. Now, it seems that the company is getting serious about this idea. On Thursday, The Information reported that Anthropic had been in contact with Samsung to explore collaboration around the pending chip. However, Anthropic has not yet decided what the chip will be used for, how it will fit into the server, or how powerful it will be,…
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Travel app Hopper will pay $35 million in FTC settlement for ‘unfairly charging’ hidden fees

Travel app Hopper will pay $35 million in FTC settlement for ‘unfairly charging’ hidden fees

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💥 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Federal Trade Commission,Hopper,Settlements,travel app ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Travel app Hopper, known for its AI-based flight and hotel price predictions, has agreed to a $35 million settlement following a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The lawsuit accused the company of misleading users by charging hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs of Hopper's services. This case is another example of regulators targeting the use of “dark patterns,” or interface designs that manipulate users into making choices they would not have otherwise made, including those that hide…
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Mystery identity of ‘Green Boots’ climber – who became a macabre landmark frozen in ice after dying on Everest – is finally solved after DNA test

Mystery identity of ‘Green Boots’ climber – who became a macabre landmark frozen in ice after dying on Everest – is finally solved after DNA test

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✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The mystery surrounding the identity of Everest's infamous 'Green Boots' climber has finally been solved after a DNA test. For almost 30 years, the body of the climber – preserved in snow and ice high on the world's tallest mountain – became a macabre landmark for thousands attempting to reach the summit. Known simply as 'Green Boots' because of his distinctive bright green mountaineering footwear still protruding from the snow and ice, the remains have now been identified as Indian climber Dorje Morup, 47.For decades, many mountaineers believed the…
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Jersey Mike’s IPO shows just how bad the hype around AI is

Jersey Mike’s IPO shows just how bad the hype around AI is

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,TC,IPOs,sandwiches 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I can't pinpoint the exact turning point from realistic excitement about new technology to hype Sorry, come on - But I'm pretty sure when a sandwich shop with Danny DeVito as its public face talks about AI in its IPO documents, we must be getting closer. Such is the case with Jersey Mike's. Given how hungry investors are for all things AI these days, I understand why tech companies feel the need to spread AI dust all over their playgrounds. This is as true for…
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CarPlay is Additive — Liss is More

CarPlay is Additive — Liss is More

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Back in March, Rivian’s Chief Software Officer, Wassym Bensaid, was interviewed by the excellent Nilay Patel for Decoder. If you’re not a Decoder listener, you should be. If you’re not a subscriber of The Verge, you should be. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. In this interview — which I greatly enjoyed! — Nilay grills Wassym on all manner of issues. The whole time, though, I was waiting for one topic: CarPlay. CarPlay is a way to interact with your phone…
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Mark Zuckerberg told employees that AI agents were not progressing as quickly as he had hoped

Mark Zuckerberg told employees that AI agents were not progressing as quickly as he had hoped

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💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,ai agent,In Brief,Mark Zuckerberg,Meta 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Replacing people with artificial intelligence does not seem easy, if Meta is an example. In an internal town hall on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that the pace of AI agent development had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected, Reuters reported. Earlier this year, Meta laid off about 8,000 employees — roughly 10% of the company's workforce — and reassigned another 7,000 to various AI groups, including one called Agent Transformation, Bloomberg reported. During a meeting this…
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Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.

Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.

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🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to the SigmaWest science camp and then STOC, there was much talk about a recent Trump administration action that would ban not only differential privacy, but essentially all modern techniques for preserving privacy in large datasets, for example in the 2030 US Census. I realize that many of us have “outrage fatigue,” but this particular outrage…
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