Tech News

1. Chinese Cyber Espionage Campaign:

   • Chinese state-sponsored hackers are reportedly exploiting Anthropic's AI technology to automate cyber attacks, targeting global organizations. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Anthropic claims that a Chinese state-sponsored threat group abused its Claude Code AI model to carry out a cyber-espionage operation. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Security analysts are expressing skepticism about claims that Anthropic's Claude code was used to independently hack 30 organizations. 👉 pcmag.com
   • Experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking. 👉 arstechnica.com

2. Tim Cook Succession Planning:

   • Apple is reportedly intensifying its CEO succession planning, with Tim Cook potentially stepping down as early as next year and John Ternus being considered as a likely successor. 👉 9to5mac.com
   • Apple is ramping up succession plans for CEO Tim Cook and may tap hardware exec John Ternus to take over. 👉 fortune.com

3. Apple Watch Patent Infringement:

   • Apple has been ordered to pay Masimo $634 million for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Apple Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple plans to appeal the decision. 👉 reuters.com
   • Apple has been hit with a $634 million verdict in an Apple Watch patent fight with Masimo. 👉 9to5mac.com
   • Apple ordered to pay Masimo $634 million over Apple Watch patent infringement. 👉 iclarified.com

4. ChatGPT Em Dash Fix:

   • OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users instruct it to do so in custom instructions. 👉 techcrunch.com
   • Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules. 👉 arstechnica.com
   • You can now stop ChatGPT's Em-Dash Fixation. 👉 pcmag.com

5. North Korean IT Workers:

   • Five people have pleaded guilty in the U.S. for helping North Koreans infiltrate 136 companies as remote IT workers, generating $2.2 million in revenue for North Korea. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Five people plead guilty to helping North Koreans infiltrate US firms. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

6. X (formerly Twitter) Messaging Update:

   • X is rolling out "Chat," its DM replacement with encryption, video calling, and more. 👉 engadget.com

7. Meta AI Scientist Departure:

   • Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead. 👉 wsj.com^$

8. Google Data Center Investment in Texas:

   • Google plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

9. Google and California Social Media Lawsuit: - Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A. 👉 news.bloomberglaw.com

10. Berkshire Hathaway Invests in Alphabet:

    • Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks. 👉 cnbc.com

11. App Store AI Data Sharing Rules:

    • Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers. 👉 techcrunch.com

12. Data Center Resistance:

    • Local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025. 👉 wired.com

13. Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Feature Faces New Import Ban Probe:

    • Redesigned Apple Watch blood oxygen feature faces ITC scrutiny. 👉 phonearena.com

14. Elon Musk's xAI Delays Grok 5 Release:

    • Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released “in Q1 sometime”, later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025. 👉 theinformation.com

15. Opera iOS User Growth in Europe:

    • Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA. 👉 9to5mac.com

16. Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Transfers:

    • Retail traders are left exposed in high-stakes crypto treasury deals. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

17. The US government is preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers from TP-Link Systems. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com

18. Checkout.com snubs hackers after data breach, to donate ransom instead (2 days ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

19. A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts (2 days ago). 👉 appleinsider.com

20. Microsoft: Windows 10 KB5068781 ESU update may fail with 0x800f0922 errors (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

21. Google Announces $40 Billion Texas Investment To Expand AI And Data Center Infrastructure. (2 days ago). 👉 dallasexpress.com

22. The IEA shifts on fossil fuel demand, signals oil demand could keep growing through to the middle of the century. (3 days ago). 👉 cnbc.com

23. Anthropic: Chinese AI hackers are after you! Security researchers call BS (2 days ago). 👉 pivot-to-ai.com

24. Logitech confirms data breach after Clop extortion attack (2 days ago). 👉 nerds.xyz

25. Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO ‘as Soon as Next Year’ (1 day ago). 👉 macrumors.com

26. Data center opposition emerging across United States, ousting industry allies from office (3 days ago). 👉 usatoday.com

27. AI firm claims it stopped Chinese state-sponsored cyber-attack campaign (2 days ago). 👉 theguardian.com

28. US jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634 million in smartwatch patent case (1 day ago). 👉 reddit.com

29. GM wants parts makers to pull supply chains from China (1 week ago). 👉 businesstimes.com.sg

30. It's official: Scientists confirmed what is inside our Moon (1 week ago). 👉 sciencealert.com

31. Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China (2 days ago). 👉 dailynews.com

32. Media headlines suggesting some slowdown in EV sales are simply incorrect (3 days ago). 👉 electrek.co

33. The cost of a Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost the company over $220 million (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

34. Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules (2 days ago). 👉 slashdot.org

35. Apple's limited-edition "iPhone Pocket" sold out almost instantly worldwide (2 days ago). 👉 appleinsider.com

36. GM wants parts makers to pull supply chains from China (1 week ago). 👉 businesstimes.com.sg

37. Economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum wrote about why solarpunk is already happening (3 days ago). 👉 climatedrift.substack.com

38. Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt (2 days ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

39. Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user agent string of meta-externalagent/1.1 was hitting my blog's machine at an unreasonable rate (3 days ago). 👉 bruceediger.com

40. Woman guilty of false reports of illegal bank account access from international space (2 days ago). 👉 cnbc.com

41. YouTube TV and Disney have ended their two-week carriage standoff (2 days ago). 👉 variety.com

42. Russian telecom operators have begun cutting mobile internet access for 24 hours for citizens returning to the country from abroad (2 days ago). 👉 therecord.media

43. Logitech has confirmed a cybersecurity breach after an intruder exploited a zero-day in a third-party software platform and copied internal data (2 days ago). 👉 nerds.xyz

44. Winning the lottery isn't what brought Carrie Edwards her 15 minutes of fame. It was giving it all away (2 days ago). 👉 washingtonpost.com

45. Fortinet confirms silent patch for FortiWeb zero-day exploited in attacks (2 days ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

46. General Motors (GM) has directed several thousand of its suppliers to scrub their supply chains of parts from China (1 week ago). 👉 businesstimes.com.sg

47. US jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634 million in smartwatch patent case (1 day ago). 👉 reddit.com

48. Hackers use Anthropic's AI model Claude once again (2 days ago). 👉 theverge.com

49. Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China (2 days ago). 👉 dailynews.com

50. The International Energy Agency's latest outlook signals that oil demand could keep growing through to the middle of the century (3 days ago). 👉 cnbc.com

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