The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
The British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October 2023 cyber attack that has rendered most of its services inaccessible  —  London-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services

Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy (Daniel Stenberg/daniel.haxx.se)

Daniel Stenberg / daniel.haxx.se:
Daniel Stenberg, founder of open-source project curl, says easy access to LLMs is resulting in junk AI-assisted bug reports, wasting developer time and energy  —  I have held back on writing anything about AI or how we (not) use AI for development in the curl factory.  Now I can't hold back anymore.

Samsung debuts Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub accessories for the cloud Gaming Hub on its smart TVs, including a new controller from PDP (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google:
Samsung debuts Designed for Samsung Gaming Hub accessories for the cloud Gaming Hub on its smart TVs, including a new controller from PDP  —  Ahead of CES 2024, Samsung is taking the wraps off of a new officially licensed accessory program for the cloud “Gaming Hub” available on its line of Smart TVs …

CertiK: over $1.8B were lost across 751 crypto hacks in 2023, down 51% YoY from $3.7B in 2022; Q3 recorded the most losses at over $686M (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)

Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph:
CertiK: over $1.8B were lost across 751 crypto hacks in 2023, down 51% YoY from $3.7B in 2022; Q3 recorded the most losses at over $686M  —  CertiK co-founder Ronghui Gu told Cointelegraph that, all things considered, 2023 was a “positive development” for blockchain security.  —  Total views

Tesla recalls virtually every car it ever sold in China, or more than 1.6M, due to potential issues with Autopilot, after a similar recall in the US in December (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Tesla recalls virtually every car it ever sold in China, or more than 1.6M, due to potential issues with Autopilot, after a similar recall in the US in December  —  - Carmaker will deploy over-the-air software upgrade to cars  — Move mirrors recall of 2 million vehicles in the US last month

LastPass now requires users to set a complex master password with a minimum of 12 characters; users have been able to set a weaker master password since 2018 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
LastPass now requires users to set a complex master password with a minimum of 12 characters; users have been able to set a weaker master password since 2018  —  LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts' security.

South Korea's trade ministry says the electronics sector drew $3B in foreign direct investment in 2023; the country is building a chip cluster south of Seoul (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korea's trade ministry says the electronics sector drew $3B in foreign direct investment in 2023; the country is building a chip cluster south of Seoul  —  - Funding jumps for electronics that include chips and batteries  — South Korea is building semiconductor cluster south of Seoul

US federal prosecutors charge Tingo Group founder Mmobuosi Odogwu Banye with securities fraud in New York, accusing him of massively inflating Tingo's finances (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg)

Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg:
US federal prosecutors charge Tingo Group founder Mmobuosi Odogwu Banye with securities fraud in New York, accusing him of massively inflating Tingo's finances  —  - Criminal charges follow SEC lawsuit against Dozy Mmobuosi  — Mmobuosi is still ‘at large,’ federal prosecutors in NY said

A look at Shein and Temu's Chinese supply chain: the platforms offer a lifeline to suppliers, but margins are razor-thin, prices must stay low, and unsold stock (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A look at Shein and Temu's Chinese supply chain: the platforms offer a lifeline to suppliers, but margins are razor-thin, prices must stay low, and unsold stock  —  Shopping apps throw a lifeline to Chinese exporters, but it is a trade-off  —  SHENZHEN, China—E-commerce sellers Shein …

A look at the battle brewing between satellite operators over the use of orbit spectrum, as SpaceX's Starlink, Project Kuiper, and others push for looser rules (Peggy Hollinger/Financial Times)

Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times:
A look at the battle brewing between satellite operators over the use of orbit spectrum, as SpaceX's Starlink, Project Kuiper, and others push for looser rules  —  A contest between legacy and new operators is brewing over the use of spectrum  —  There is a battle brewing in space.

The chip industry is the new star on the political scene, bringing opportunities and challenges; Nvidia and others have rapidly built US lobbying operations (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
The chip industry is the new star on the political scene, bringing opportunities and challenges; Nvidia and others have rapidly built US lobbying operations  —  Increased attention from politicians poses opportunities and challenges for the semiconductor industry  —  Semiconductors have played the starring role in state visits.

Sources: Merck's bid for Japanese chip materials maker JSR, not disclosed to JSR shareholders, triggered a $6.4B offer by a state-backed fund in June 2023 (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Merck's bid for Japanese chip materials maker JSR, not disclosed to JSR shareholders, triggered a $6.4B offer by a state-backed fund in June 2023  —  Japan Investment Corporation's $6.4bn offer for JSR comes as governments seek to protect semiconductor technology

Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril (Eric Lipton/New York Times)

Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Retiring generals and departing top Pentagon officials are increasingly flocking to VC firms that have pumped billions into defense tech startups like Anduril  —  Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

Sources: ASML canceled shipments of some machines to China at the request of the US, weeks before export bans on the chipmaking equipment came into effect (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: ASML canceled shipments of some machines to China at the request of the US, weeks before export bans on the chipmaking equipment came into effect  —  - ASML canceled shipments of a liminted number of devices  — Biden is cracking down on Beijing's semiconductor industry

A look at the challenges faced by Apple's $85B/year services business, as the company faces key US court cases and prepares to allow app sideloading in the EU (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Michael Acton / Financial Times:
A look at the challenges faced by Apple's $85B/year services business, as the company faces key US court cases and prepares to allow app sideloading in the EU  —  Landmark EU regulation and crucial US court cases due in 2024 will test the tech company  —  Apple faces a legal reckoning in 2024 …